Bailey Cabin  (The Honey-Moon Cabin)

Manasseh was a community of early homes, buildings, pastures, and Farmland that adjoined Ephraim City on its west border. Christian Christensen built a small one-room cabin as a temporary home for his family until he was able to build a larger one. He took a trip to the West Mountain and cut cedar and pine logs for the cabin. Once he had moved his family out of the cabin, he used the cabin to store the grain he had been raising. 

In 1897, his daughter married Franklin Bailey and Christensen gave the Cabin to them as their first home. The home was later moved to Ephraim and located on 1st West and 2nd North. It was moved on skid logs that were pulled by two teams of horses owned by Franklin and his brother, William. It took three whole days to completely move the house From Manasseh to Ephraim. 

As the years passed, The Bailey’s had four sons, Mailen, Fred, Ernest, and Glenn. It didn’t take long for the Baileys to grow out of the small Cabin, and so they moved to a larger home in Ephraim. The Cabin did not remain empty for long though, Franklin’s nephew, Alfred, and his new wife Clara moved in shortly after the Baileys had moved out. They lived happily in the small home until they started to have children and had to move to a larger home. 

As time went on, The home always seemed to be occupied by young couples who thought that it would be a good place to start their early married years. Mailen and Ava Bailey spent a few years there, and Ernest and Renon Bailey began their married life there as well. Even Glenn, who was the youngest, eventually ended up in the cabin with his new wife Barbra.