Lorenzo Wilson Aiken, a sheep shearer, and his wife, Mary
Jane Nielson Aiken built this corner service station, the 1st
one in town, in 1924. Mary Jane and their small children
ran the station from 1928-29 to keep Lorenzo on an Eastern
States LDS mission. Later their son Denzel ran the station.
The last person to run the station sold Shell and Wasatch
gasoline. The Aikens’ c. 1908 pattern book brick house
behind the station replaced a small log house.

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