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Leamington is a town in Millard County, Utah, United States. The population was 217 at the 2000 census.

In 1871 settlers of Oak City, Utah built a dam at what is now Leamington. The town itself was settled in 1873 by Thomas Morgan. He was the first branch president in imitation of the Leamington Branch of the LDS Church was organized in 1876. In 1880 a log meetinghouse was built and by this period the town had an LDS Ward bearing in mind Mary Goble Pay as president of the Primary Organization. Bengt Textorius was hired to bring a spur of the railroad by the side of from SLC through Leamington subsequent to Lynndyl Junction. His wife Josephine talked her sister Anna and her son Abe, to come over from Sweden. She brought taking into account her Bertha Rorstrum. Hans Olaus Sorenson married both of these women and started rearing families. He followed Bengt alongside to Leamington in 1883. Hans purchased a farm south east of town. He helped construct the canal up upon the ridge which helped water the valley. Rodney Ashby was bishop for many years and Bengt was one of his counselors. Hans had four surviving children with Bertha: Hyrum, Louisa Marie, Alice, & Heber and Anna had: Hilma, Joseph, & Annie Bertina. Hans found that sugar cane grew bigger than wheat correspondingly he produced molasses. He in addition to got a cream separator and worked subsequently the neighbors to take the cream and make butter. He took trips to the mining town Eureka in the works north to sell, butter, eggs, meat, and flour goods, plus fruit and vegetables in season. Life was not easy. He made an adobe mill for bricks to make little homes. They would go occurring into the canyons to store up firewood for house and for the cone kilns to make charcoal for the trains. In winter they would heat bricks on the pot front stove and wrap burlap with mention to for their beds. In winter, they would clip blocks of ice from the Sevier River and place them in small caves covered in imitation of straw to facilitate as refrigerators. In 1930 Leamington and its unexpected vicinity had a population of 356.

On Highway 132 near the middle of Leamington sits a restored 1960s style Phillips 66 gas station subsequently period cars (1930s – 1950s) in front of and in version to this garage. There is afterward a growing growth of retired farm implements. In addition, there is a timeless 1960s epoch American Linen Supply Company delivery van parked inside the fence, directly east of the gas station.