Colonia Dublán

It made polygamy a felony in U.S. territories and revoked polygamists' voting rights and their ability to serve on juries.

Federal marshals frequently patrolled the Utah Territory on horseback looking for polygamists, and many of the church leaders were arrested.

[1] Several men were called in 1875 to serve missions in Mexico, where they preached to Mexican people and scouted for land for potential future colonization.

[2] In 1885, several church leaders rented 300 acres (1.2 km2) of land in northern Chihuahua, and Mormon members began to plant crops.

In 1888, George M. Brown of Provo, Utah, made a deal with German-Mexican Lewis Huller for 73,000 acres (300 km2) of land north of what was then the Casas Grandes River.

The colony, which was originally called Colonia Huller, was first settled by George Lake, a Mormon colonist, with many others following in the spring of 1889.

[4] The Mexican colonies were founded to provide shelter from the persecution and legal restrictions of the United States, and also created new opportunities to do proselytizing.

While they escaped the threat of persecution for practicing polygamy, they faced other difficulties in the form of disease, political unrest, conflict with the Mexican population, and drought.

They were laid out in the same foursquare design with wide streets used in Salt Lake City and bore a strong resemblance to other Mormon settlements.

Due to these factors and the ongoing revolution, Pancho Villa Rebel groups forced them to return to the United States in 1912.

But when some of the residents returned in the autumn of 1912 and later in 1915, they discovered that the warring factions had burned most of the settlers' property and little could be salvaged from the rubble.