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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14DS_la-verkin_La-Verkin-UT.html
In 1881 Thomas Judd, promoter, with others completed an 840 foot tunnel and 1 1/4 mile canal to bring water from the Rio Virgin for the cultivation of this valley. Excavations opened a large crystal cave of stalactite and stalagmites. In 1903, the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14DR_southern-exploring-company-1849_Hurricane-UT.html
The confluence of Ash and LaVerkin Creeks with the Virgin River is important in the history of this region. Footsteps long forgotten have passed through this region. Some have been remembered but most have faded with time. Roaming bands of Indians…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14DQ_look-out-point_Hurricane-UT.html
With the settlement of Toquerville in 1858 by the first six families and others soon to join them, they soon realized that the pressures on the available irrigated farmland could not support the increasing population. Survival would depend on graz…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14DD_hurricane-canal_Hurricane-UT.html
We give love and honor to the memory of the men who built our Hurricane Canal; and the ditch riders who cared for it. These pioneers were men of integrity who had a dream, an improbable dream. They built the canal high on a hill, sometimes through…
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/HM14CR_heritage-home-pioneer-corner_Hurricane-UT.html
Original Home of Ira E. and Marion Hinton BradshawBuilt 1906-08(Placed on the National Register of Historic Places - 1991)
This plain carpenters' Victorian eclectic style home, with a cross-wing and stone foundation and cellar was the first pe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14CQ_hurricane-pioneers_Hurricane-UT.html
In 1863 settlers of the upper Virgin River whose lands were being washed away made preliminary surveys for irrigating and occupying these lands. Erastus Snow, David H.Cannon and Nephi Johnson came down the hill over an old Indian trail, with a hea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14CP_smith-mesa_Hurricane-UT.html
Smith Mesa, northeast of Hurricane and nearly one-half mile higher in elevation, was named after Charles Nephi Smith, Bishop of Rockville from 1867 to 1891. He had a ranch house on Smith Creek and ran his cattle on this beautiful mesa. Shortly aft…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14CO_early-day-wood-beam-walking-hand-plow_Hurricane-UT.html
This plow was donated to the museum by Mr. and Mrs. Leslie E. Nelson, of Hurricane,Utah. History of the plow is from Mr. Nelson's grandmother, Hulda Ellertson Kay, who was housekeeper for Apostle Hyde during the period of 1875. The Nelson family o…