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St. George is located within the northern end of the Mohave Desert at 2,860 feet above sea level and the average annual temperature is approximately 61F. The average annual rainfall is 8.30 inches, and the normal growing season is 196 days. All these factors made the area a suitable location for the early settlement. With hot summers and extremely mild winters, St. George is also known as a winter haven for what the 45,000 locals call "Snow Birds" (tourists who come to St. George to warm up away from the snow.) St. George is also home to the four year Dixie State College.
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Many people believe that St. George was named after a Union Army Officer by the name of Phillip St. George Cooke who is said to have donated a good share of equipment and wagons to the Mormon settlement of "Dixie". It was called Dixie because it was a center for growing cotton which was processed at the nearby Washington Cotton Mill, and that cotton reminded many of the settlers who originally lived in the south of Dixie.
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When the Civil War broke out in 1861, Brigham Young thought it would be necessary to raise cotton, if possible. Many of the early settlers of St. George originally came from the southern states. They came to the "Cotton Mission" to grow cotton, but they also brought with them a phrase for the area which has become widely adopted--they called the St. George area "Utah's Dixie."
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