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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SKC_star-hall_Moab-UT.html
Constructed from 1905 to 1906 by local craftsmen, Star Hall is architecturally significant as a fine local example of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture and is historically significant for the role it has played in the community over the years …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SJB_scott-m-matheson_Moab-UT.html
(There are two markers mounted on the kiosk)
Dedication
In June 1991, the Nature Conservancy dedicated this preserve in honor of one of Utah's leading environmental advocates: Scott M. Matheson.
As Utah's governor, Matheson earned a reputa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SJA_elk-mountain-mission_Moab-UT.html
In April 1855, forty one men under the leadership of Alfred N. Billings were called to establish a mission in the Elk Mountains. They left Salt Lake City May 7, 1855, arrived at Grand River June 11, and selected the site for a settlement. By July …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SJ9_the-old-log-cabin_Moab-UT.html
Log cabins used to be common in Moab. I am the oldest one left. I was built, most likely, by the first bishop of Moab, Randolph Stewart, for his third plural wife, Marietta, about 1881. The Stanley's, a family of four lived here in 1908 after they…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SJ8_early-l-d-s-church_Moab-UT.html
One room of this building, formerly the L.D.S. Church, was erected in 1888. Two years later a second room was added. The bishop was Randolph Stewart; building committee: O.W. Warner, who donated the land, Henry Holyoak, and O.D. Allen; supervisors…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SJ7_moab-l-d-s-church_Moab-UT.html
Constructed of adobe in 1889, the Moab L.D.S. Church was built nine years after the establishment of Moab in 1880. Angus Stocks supervised the laying of the foundation and adobes. Within a few years of original construction an addition was made to…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SJ5_grand-old-ranch-house_Moab-UT.html
This property
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
By the United States
Department of the Interior
Plaque above: Built 1896
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SJ1_moab-utah-umtra-project_Moab-UT.html
Moab Mill
The Moab mill was constructed in 1956 by Uranium Reduction Company, which operated the mill until 1962 when the assets were sold to the Atlas Minerals Corporation (Atlas). Uranium concentrate, the milling product, was sold to the U.S. A…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DP3_wolfe-ranch_Malahide-UT.html
John Wesley Wolfe settled here in the late 1800s with his oldest son Fred. A nagging leg injury from the Civil War prompted John to move west from Ohio, looking for a drier climate. He chose this tract of more than 100 acres along Salt Wash for it…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ3I_balanced-rock_Moab-UT.html
The forces of erosion are sculpting more than just arches. Balanced Rock clearly shows the various layers responsible for this amazing defiance of gravity.
The caprock of the hard Slick Rock Member of the Entrada Sandstone is perched upon a ped…