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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14DC_pioneer-bowery_Washington-UT.html
A bowery was built near here in August 1904 for the celebration of the long-awaited arrival of water to the Hurricane Bench and to name this new town. After twelve years of back-breaking work, the Virgin River water, carried seven miles from the d…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14DB_convict-camp-and-wagon-road_Washington-UT.html
In 1915 prisoners from the Utah State Prison camped here among these very rocks. They were detailed to build a wagon road up the fault, directly east from here. Remnants of the road can still bee seen with its lava rocks retaining walls. The work …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14AI_covington-mansion_Washington-UT.html
In 1857, Robert D. Covington, directed by Brigham Young, led twenty-eight families to Washington, Utah, to establish the "Cotton Mission." In 1859, a large structure was built that would serve as a meeting house for the Saints, a way station for t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14AH_adair-spring_Washington-UT.html
In early 1857 Brigham Young called a group of Southerners on a cotton mission to southern Utah to raise cotton. Samuel Newton Adair, the leader of ten families, arrived at this spot Apr. 15, 1857, after leaving Payson, Utah on Mar. 3. They camped …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14AE_utahs-dixie-washington-city_Washington-UT.html
Founded 1857. This monument is erected in honor and memory of the founders of Washington City. The settlers who arrived 1857 were sent here by Brigham Young, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, for the purpose of growing …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14AD_utahs-dixie-birthplace-washington-city_Washington-UT.html
Founded 1857.After the Adair and Covington companies meetings with Isaac C. Haight in May 1857, they immediately started to prepare the land to grow crops. William H. Crawford, secretary of the group, wrote to the Deseret News, May 7, 1857, "... t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14AC_prominent-pioneer-men-and-women-who-helped-settle-washington-city_Washington-UT.html
Present city officials and citizens of Washington City desired to pay tribute to early prominent pioneers who first settled here in 1857. These pioneers sacrificed their all while improving conditions in this harsh, dry, hot inhospitable, mosquito…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14AB_thomas-w-smiths-corn-cracker-grist-millstone_Washington-UT.html
Thomas Washington Smith was one of the original pioneers to settle Washington in 1857. He must have started to build his mill immediately after arriving the millstones were large and of granite and would have taken a Herculean effort to shape and …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14AA_zcmi-co-op-building_Washington-UT.html
Official outlet of ZCMI (Zion's Co-operative Mercantile Institution), "America's First Department Store." This building housed the Zions Co-op Rio Virgin Manufacturing Company from 1872-1875. It was part of the ZCMI co-operative system which serve…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14A9_relief-society-hall_Washington-UT.html
The Relief Society Hall's main section was built in 1875 and the west wing about 1904. This makes the present "L" shaped building. Both sections were built of adobes that were produced locally. Its style of architecture is Greek Revival that preva…