WELLSVILLE-Founder’s Day is a big celebration in Wellsville, Cache County’s oldest permanent settlement. On 15 September 1856, the first families came to the valley to make their homes at the southwest part of the valley. Peter, John, and William H. Maughan, Zial Riggs, and Francis W. Gunnell, and two single men, George W. Bryan and O.D. Thompson, entered Cache Valley.
There were twenty-five people in the group that drove to a stream where they made their encampment. It was first called Maughan’s Fort. Wagon boxes were taken off, and the women prepared homes in them.
Labor Day is the time people come to celebrate the first community organized in Cache Valley. As part of the Wellsville Founders Day celebration they have all kinds of activities.
The Wellsville Stampede Semi-Pro Rodeo will be held on Friday Aug. 30 and Saturday Aug. 31 at 7;30 p.m. at the city rodeo arena located at 300 S. 350 W.
This is the tenth annual Rocky Mountain Professional Rodeo Association event. Concessions will also be available. All ladies 10 years old and older are invited to the Stampede Rodeo Flag Ceremony. Participating ladies must wear a white shirt, have a cowboy hat, ride their own horse and have their own United States of America flag.
Saturday Aug. 31, a shotgun golf tournament will be held at the Logan River Golf Course at 9 a.m. The Saturday activities also include a movie in the park at 8 p.m. and a fireworks show begins at 10 p.m.
Sunday there will be a patriotic program held at 7 p.m. in the Wellsville Stake Center of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints located at 30 South Center St. This years outstanding Citizen of the Year will be named and the program includes music and speakers.
Monday early the Fun Run 10 K will take place at 7 a.m. followed by the 5 K r and kid races. The race begins at 100 E. 100S. The Boy Scouts of America Troup 21will post the American Flag at 9 a.m. on the corner of Center St. and Main St.
A Community Breakfast will be from 7:30 a.m. until 9 a.m. it will be served at the City Square Pavilion, all proceeds going to the Wellsville Tabernacle.
The Parade will begin at 10 a.m. at 300 N. Center. Ron Case has been named the Grand Marshal of the Founders Day Parade. Following the parade the Sham Battle will take place at 200 S. 100 E.
AT 12 noon there will be a watermelon bust free until the watermelon is gone. Music in the Park, an antique Model T display, Bingo, food trucks and other activities in the park all day. There is also the Mt. Sterling Stampede at 6 p.m. at the Wellsville rodeo arena.
There is also a quilt drawing. Tickets cost $1 and can be purchased at the City Offices or on Founders Day on City Square.