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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM149A_tabernacle_St-George-UT.html
Brigham Young's purpose in building this tabernacle was to provide an ornament to the city. Its 3-foot thick basement walls of hand-cut limestone bear individual stone cutter marks. Roof trusses were hand-hewn and the twin spiral staircases with b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1499_the-jail-house_St-George-UT.html
The jail is a small one room building constructed from black lava rock gathered in the nearby foothills. The exact date of construction is not known, however, it is assumed to be built by Sheriff Hardy around 1880. Though used as a granary after t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1497_the-sandstone-building_St-George-UT.html
It is difficult to establish an exact date of construction of this building. It is one of a half-dozen structures built in St. George from leftover rock from the tabernacle during the 1860's. George Brooks is thought to have built the building, as…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM148F_gardeners-club_St-George-UT.html
This structure, built by St. George's first horticulturist J.E. Johnson in 1863, for use as a meeting place for the club, was never used as a residence.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM148C_the-hardy-house_St-George-UT.html
Built by Augustus Poore Hardy in 1871, this house, with classical Dixie dormers, has quite a history. Hardy was sheriff of St. George and was holding a man accused of murder. An armed group of vigilantes broke into the house and forced the keys fr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM148A_erastus-snows-big-house_St-George-UT.html
On this site in 1867, Erastus Snow began construction on a four-story, adobe home which later became known as the "Big House." Snow, an LDS apostle, was the presiding Mormon leader during the colonization of St. George. The "Big House" was an unco…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1486_brigham-young-home_St-George-UT.html
Brigham Young was prophet and president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for 30 years. During those three decades he directed the establishment of more than three hundred communities throughout the American West. It was "Brother …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1483_pioneer-washington-county-courthouse_St-George-UT.html
St. George was designated as the county seat on January 14, 1883. This building was begun in 1866 and completed in 1876. It served the county government as offices. The 18-inch thick walls housed the jail in the basement and school was held upstai…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1481_pioneer-museum_St-George-UT.html
This red brick building completed in 1938 was financed by Mrs. Hortense McQuarrie Odlum to house pioneer relics. The addition was financed by Ferol McQuarrie Kincade in 1985. Daughters of Utah Pioneers volunteer their services as docents for the M…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM147Z_the-jones-adobe-home_St-George-UT.html
Dedicated to memory ofClarence Amos Jones & Madaline Empey Jones.Donated by their children Boyd Grant Jones and Sylvia Jones Chamberlain,Wayne Hyrum Jonesto the Washington County Historical Society.
This one room home, with a partition, was mov…