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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C9T_fur-trappers-and-traders_Salt-Lake-City-UT.html
Fur trappers and traders were the first white men in this locality. William H. Ashley and men arrived in the spring of 1829. The principal leaders were James Bridger - Etienne Provost Jedediah S. Smith James Bridger, discoverer of the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BXI_anderson-tower_Salt-Lake-City-UT.html
Anderson Tower was built in 1884 by Robert R. Anderson (1848-1935) a pioneer of 1867, and one of the original settlers on the north bench of Salt Lake City. The tower was patterned after similar towers Mr. Anderson had seen in Scotland as a young …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BL8_dr-ellis-reynolds-shipp-park_Salt-Lake-City-UT.html
When Dr. Ellis Reynolds Shipp graduated from Women's Medical College in Philadelphia with a specialty in obstetrics and diseases of women and children, she returned to Salt Lake City to practice medicine and open her School of Obstetrics and Nursi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTKR_ensign-peak_Salt-Lake-City-UT.html
July 26, 1847, two days after the Mormon pioneers entered this valley Brigham Young and party climbed to this point and with the aid of field glasses made a careful survey of the mountains, canyons and streams. In the group were Heber C. Kimball, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMT8U_twentieth-ward-school_Salt-Lake-City-UT.html
On this site in 1857, the Twentieth Ward or Twentieth District School was erected, John Toone builder. The one large room served for school, church and recreation. In 1860 a two-story addition was constructed. Pupils came from all parts of Salt La…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP20_warm-springs_Salt-Lake-City-UT.html
July 26, 1847, President Brigham Young and others descended Ensign Peak and located Sulphur Springs. Thomas Bullock wrote: "About 1½ miles north of the Temple Block is a sulphur spring which I dug out and made into a beautiful place." A bathh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNXQ_morrison-merrill-lumber-company_Salt-Lake-City-UT.html
Constructed 1909-1910, the Morrison-Merrill Lumber Company Office and Warehouse is historically significant as the headquarters of one of Utah's largest and most important lumber companies. The construction of this facility marked the beginning of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNXG_transcontinental-railroad_Salt-Lake-City-UT.html
As western settlement increased, the need for an overland railroad was voiced by various groups, including Utah pioneers who petitioned Congress, Mar. 1852. The Enabling Act of 1862 authorized construction. First rails laid by Central Pacific in S…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNXE_william-staines-and-william-jennings_Salt-Lake-City-UT.html
Two men figure most prominently in the history of Devereaux House. William Staines was the original occupant of this property. Staines was an English-born horticulturist whose dedication to his "mission to beautify Zion" helped establish the ri…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNX9_devereaux-house_Salt-Lake-City-UT.html
Devereaux House was Salt Lake City's earliest mansion and, in its day, the most elegant. As a unique mansion in an isolated frontier city, the Devereaux was the setting of many social gatherings that included prominent local citizens and important…
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