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The Naegle Big House
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Known as the Naegle Winery, the Naile House, or the Naegle Big House, this building was constructed where it now stands in 1866-68 by John Conrad Naegle, a Mormon polygamist, rancher, farmer, and colonist. Its original purpose is unclear, with different accounts indicating it was intended as a home for Naegle and several of his wives and families, as headquarters for his widespread ranching and business enterprises, and as a winery. The basement was used for several years as a storage and distribution cellar for the wine Naegle produced in Toquerville. After the end of the wine industry in Utah's Dixie and the relocation of the Naegle family and enterprises to Mexico in the late 1880's, the building stood vacant until the early 1900's, when it housed canning and distribution operations for locally grown figs and peaches. Later it was used to store grain, hay, and farm machinery. In 1980, Steven O'Dell Williams and Rosa LeBaron Williams renovated it as a residence.
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