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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1F50_bryce-airport_Bryce-UT.html
Bryce Airport's Vital RoleIn this remote region, with major hospitals and airfields hundreds of miles away, Bryce Airport provides critical emergency support. Built in 1936 as an emergency landing strip for commercial airlines, the airport has ser…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1F34_social-hall_Panguitch-UT.html
The Panguitch Social Hall was built during the years between 1890-1900. Fredrick Judd made the bricks and slacked the lime for the laying of the brick. The walls were three bricks thick, and the building had wide double-doors on either side of the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1F33_the-panguitch-quilt-walk-history_Panguitch-UT.html
In 1864 a group of hardy pioneers braved the mountain snows to save their families from starvation. This group of men encountered snows that were impassable. According to theirfaith they knelt on a quilt in a prayer circle. The answer to their pra…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1F32_panguitch-tithing-lot_Panguitch-UT.html
During the first settlement of Panguitch, between 1864 and 1867, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints paid tithes with produce and cattle, which were kept on this lot and disbursed as needed. Barns and corrals were constructe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1F31_hatch-ward-building-and-bell_Hatch-UT.html
In 1904 the Hatch L.D.S. Ward building was erected on this lot. A vestibule was added in 1910 and the bell was purchased with donations from ward members. For many years it hung in the tower and rang out for all civic, social and church activities…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1F2Z_settlement-of-hatch_Hatch-UT.html
In 1872 Meltiar Hatch settled at the head of the Sevier River, near the junction of Mammoth and Asay Creeks. He engaged in stock raising and operated a water-power saw mill. Soon other settlers came. Land was surveyed and irrigation ditches dug. L…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1F2Y_asay-settlement_Hatch-UT.html
About 1872 Joseph Asay with his family settled about 3/4 mile west and a little south of this spot. Soon other homesteaders settled in the locality. Tom Jessup and Dan LeRoy erected a water power saw mill. A shingle mill was also placed on the str…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR5D_streetscape_Bryce-UT.html
In the early 1920s, the Union Pacific Railroad, the National Park Service and the National Forest Service worked together to develop Bryce Canyon as a national park. This collection of cabins and the Bryce Canyon Lodge are a product of that partne…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR55_bryce-canyon-lodge_Bryce-UT.html
Union Pacific Railroad served Bryce Canyon well as it grew to national park status. The railroad's vision of the site's potential for tourism culminated in the creation of the "Grand Circle Tour", a tour that traveled to several parks in one trip.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR4T_bryce-amphitheater_Bryce-UT.html
"Before there were any Indians, the Legend People, To-when-an-ung-wa, lived in that place. There were many of them. They were of many kinds - birds, animals, lizards and such things - but they looked like people....For some reason, the Legend Peop…