Mary Wanlass Hutchings
(1848-1907)

In 1862, 14-year-old Mary led her four siblings and bedridden father to Utah. Separated from their wagon train in lowa, Mary relied on the Lord and the help of friendly Native Americans. The family arrived unscathed and spent its first winter in a dugout home here. Mary became the mother of John Hutchings, founder of the Hutchings Museum.

Located at 111 East Main Street in Lehi, Utah

• Lehi Historical Marker Program

Memorial Building

Dedicated on May 31, 1926, it was the first municipal building in the U.S. erected to honor veterans of WWI. Bronze tablets bear the names of Lehi’s service- men and servicewomen. Home to American Legion Post 19, it has housed a library, jail, city hall and fire station as well as hosted numerous community events. The Hutchings Museum has occupied it since 1996.

This historic marker was the 3rd of 36 in the Lehi Historical Marker Program series erected in 2024 outside the Hutchings Museum / Lehi Memorial Building at 55 North Center Street in Lehi, Utah.

I always love crossing state lines and other border and seeing what kind of markers and signages they have – I’ve got photos of so many of them and decided I should try to organize them so this page will be that.

• Colorado / Utah – Interstate 70

First Settlers William Evans Baker & Celestia Cole Baker 1873

Made their first home 6000 S. & West of 2700 W. 1874

Mr. Baker dug by hand a well dug 50 feet down by hand shovel. He put 40 gallon barrels lining the hole to keep the sand from caving in.

This was the first source of water in the area.

First Post Office in Roy

Located at 5900 S. 2700 W. (Field Home) The Field home had two rooms: a kitchen and bedroom. The post office was in a corner of the kitchen.

Orson Field was appointed first postmaster on 25 May 1894. Name choices for the Federal Post Office were:

• Central City
• Lake View
• Sand Ridge
• Roy.

The Federal Post Office Department preferred the shortness of the name “Roy”. Roy was the son of Rev. David Peebles who had died at the age of two.

The first Roy Post Office Building outside a home was at 5700 S. 1900 W.

The first Post Office in Roy, Weber County, Utah began at this site in the corner of the kitchen of the original two room home of the first postmaster Orson Field and his wife Margaret Jones Field. Mr. Field received appointment under President Grover Cleveland March 25, 1894 while Utah was a Territory.

At this monument’s dedication (1958), Mrs. Field is still living at the age of ninety four and the original post office is presently a portion of her home.

Located at 5987 South 2700 West in Roy, Utah

Sly Park

Sly Park, located 40 miles east of Sutter’s Fort and 10 miles east of Pleasant Valley, California, was one of the gathering places for discharged members of the Mormon Battalion. These men were preparing to travel to the Salt Lake Valley to join leader Brigham Young and the pioneers who were arriving there. In July 1846, 500 men, all members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons), had volunteered in Council Bluffs, Iowa, to serve 1 year in the United States Army under the leadership of General Stephen W. Kearney and to help the United States in the war with Mexico. These men of the Mormon Battalion marched 2,000 miles from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to California-the longest infantry march within the United States. They arrived on January 29, 1847. By then, the war with Mexico was over, and they were discharged in Los Angeles on July 16, 1847.

About 100 ex-soldiers traveled north and remained to work for Captain John Sutter on various projects around the Sacramento Valley. Some of them discovered gold at Sutter’s Mill in January 1848, which began the western gold rush.

The men, who were anxious to leave California to join their families and friends in the Salt Lake Valley, searched for a suitable site during the summer of 1848 where everyone could meet and plan the trip. They found a spot named Pleasant Valley, about 8 miles southeast of Placerville, where they assembled wagons and made other preparations to travel.

While traveling further east, several of the men found a pleasant mountain meadow with a stream near Pollack Pines that was ideal for grazing cattle. One of the men, James Calvin Sly, carved his name on a tree trunk, which became a landmark and gave the area its name, Sly Park. Sly Park became the final rendezvous point for the group. The party included 43 men, 1 woman, 1 small cannon, 17 wagons, 150 horses, and 150 head of cattle.

These former members of the Mormon Battalion turned their backs on the rich gold fields for their families and their church. They pioneered the first road over the Sierra Range at Carson Pass.

This is Daughters of Utah Pioneers historic marker #547, erected by the James Calvin Sly Camp and Placer Company DUP in 2008 at the Jenkinson Lake Trail Head and Waterfall Trail Head off Mormon Immigrant Trail at Pollock Pines, California.

• D.U.P. Historic Markers