The Old Emigrant Road

06 Friday Jun 2014

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The Old Emigrant Road

The Old Emigrant Road started at Salt Lake City, Utah, and ended at the City of the Rocks, Idaho, where it formed a junction with the California Trail. This road was also known as Bluff Road, Old Traveled Road, and the Salt Lake Cutoff. It was established as the most practical way to reach the California Trail from Utah because it avoided hills and sand, and provided feed and water for the livestock. Hasting’s Cutoff, the alternate route, had proved impractical for wagons and livestock.

This Old Emigrant Road was used for many years by local residents as it was the easiest way to travel to the various communities in the valley. The road was first used by Captain Samuel Hensley with ten men, August 1848. Upon his advice, Mormon Battalion members returning from California also traveled this road. This contingent of forty-five men and one woman, with seventeen wagons took this trail on their way to Salt Lake City.

In 1849-1850 an estimated 22,500 gold seekers followed this northern route to the California gold fields. From 1852 to 1857 homeseeking emigrants with their families used the road on their way to Oregon and California.

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River Heights

06 Friday Jun 2014

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Originally called “Dry Town” then later named River Heights, this town overlooks the Logan River. The first settlers, arriving here in 1883, were the families of Anders Anderson, Mathias Lundberg, Hyrum Merrill, Christian Hansen, Knut Hansen, Peter Croft, Moroni Gudmundson, Alma Cummings, and the Croftmans. In 1887, the families of Lars Larsen and Eric Lehi Olson arrived.

The first bridge across the Logan River was built in 1891. On May 4, 1908, the River Heights Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized, with Eric Lehi Olson as its first bishop. In 1910 the first chapel was built. The first school house was erected in 1912, with Loyla Raymond as the teacher. The first mayor was J. Karl Wood.

River Heights was incorporated October 31, 1934.

This monument rock was obtained from Dry Canyon, east of River Heights.

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The Social Hall

06 Friday Jun 2014

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The Cedar City Pioneers had made their homes in the Old Fort and had built an adobe schoolhouse 28 feet by 60 feet when, in May 1855, President Brigham Young advised them to move to higher ground. By 1859, the majority of the people had moved to the new Cedar City site and had a small, adobe room available for school, church and civic affairs. As more and more people occupied the new Cedar Site, it became apparent that the small building was not adequate.

On January 6, 1861, a committee was appointed, composed of Samuel Leigh, John M. Higbee and Isaac C. Haight, who recommended building a social hall. With materials scarce and labor plentiful, the schoolhouse in the Old Fort was dismantled, brick by brick, and reassembled in the new location (Block 37 Lot 18) to become known as the “Social Hall.” This one-story building had four windows on each side, a fireplace in the west end, and a door in the east end. It was set back from the street to where the center of the State Bank of Southern Utah parking lot is located.

The Social Hall was used for church, school, dances, dramatics, funerals, civic and social needs. School functions were transferred from the Social Hall in 1881 when the new school building was finished on the southeast corner of the block.

The tabernacle was completed in 1888 for religious purposes, but the Social Hall continued to serve for recreation and other needs until the ward hall was built north of the school building in 1897. At this time the Social Hall was considered unsafe for public use and was torn down.

Utah Social Halls, Opera Houses, and Amusement Halls

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Layton’s Little Fort

06 Friday Jun 2014

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The pioneers who settled what is now Layton, Utah, established a fort in 1854-55 on the road then called Little Fort Lane. This road extended from Five Points, north to Little Fort and joined the Kays Creek roads from the east.

In those years the families of Billa Dickson, John Green, William Lindsey, Mark and Pratt Whitesides, and the Shipley and Croft families, lived in “The Little Fort.” It was given this name because a large fort had already been established in the center of Kaysville.

This little fort, to protect the people from the Indians, was built on the south bank of Kays Creek overlooking the sandridge road from the Morris Town Hill. The fort served mainly as a lookout point on the Indian camp area. Friendly Indians lived along the hollow.

Little Fort was built in the shape of a square with the houses forming the outside walls which were built of rock, dried mud and mortar. Vegetable gardens which provided necessary food were raised in the center court of this fort and were tended for several years after the fort was abandoned. One cabin that was moved from Little Fort can still be found at 400 North Fort Lane, near the Layton High School. This cabin had a single room and a saddle-notched construction.

Located at Layton Commons Park at 437 N Wasatch Drive in Layton, Utah

(the previous location, same park, farther north)

Uriah Nephi Smart Tannery

06 Friday Jun 2014

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In a deep hollow south of 3900 South, Uriah Nephi Smart built his tannery in 1880. This two story building was thirty feet wide and one hundred feet long. It was built of adobe bricks, which were made from clay taken from a bank north of the building site. The foundation was of red sandstone from Red Butte Canyon, and the lumber in the building was red pine from Millcreek Canyon.

There were eight large redwood vats on the bottom floor which were used to soak the hides, some in lime water to loosen the hair, and others in tannic acid to soften the hides.

Uriah Smart made his own tannic acid from pine bark, ground in a mill south of the tannery. He also made his own neat’s-foot oil used to soften the leather by boiling down animal bones in large cast-iron kettles.

On the top floor of the tannery the leather was fleshed and softened, sheep and goat skins were tanned, and the hides were stored.

This property was donated by Uriah Nephi Smart’s grandson, Rowland W. Smart.

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Spring City Pioneer Cemetery

06 Friday Jun 2014

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The pioneers of Spring City established a cemetery at this location in 1857. It is in the shape of the State of Utah. The earliest known burial was that of Newton Devine Allred in 1857. Three men who were casualties of the Black Hawk War, James Meek, Martin Andrew Johansen, and Lars Alexander Justesen, were buried here in 1867 and 1868. Isaac Allred, brother of James Allred founder of Spring City, was interred in 1870.

Many of the markers were of local sandstone, and the elements have washed away some of the names and dates. This cemetery was nearly covered with wooden markers, mostly children’s graves. Some graves were marked with only a square stone at the head and a smaller one at the foot, and still others with a pile of rocks. The last person buried here was Isaac Morton Behunin in 1910. This cemetery was then filled and a new location was found.

Utah Penitentiary

06 Friday Jun 2014

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DUP # 440

After World War II the growth of the city to the south and east made it imperative to construct a large prison facility in a more isolated area. In 1951 all the old penitentiary buildings were demolished and the inmates transferred to “Point of the Mountain” 30 miles away. This site then became beautiful Sugar House Park. The stones in the monument are from the old penitentiary. The name “Sugarhouse” comes from a Mormon pioneer attempt to grow beets and refine sugar in this area. The refining process was unsuccessful and the factory was torn down but the name remained to designate a suburb of Salt Lake City. After 1849 pioneers entered and left the valley from the Sugar House staging area through Parley’s Canyon to the east.

SUP # 17

This monument marks the site of the Utah Penitentiary selected by Brigham Young in October 1853, then a safe 6 miles from the center of the city.

The first buildings of adobe brick, surrounded by a 12 foot wall, were occupied in January 1855. Early accounts indicate that escapes were frequent because of poor facilities and the lack of guards.

In 1866 the penitentiary was renovated. The three buildings, wall, and guard houses were upgraded to stone. Later a dining hall, hospital and women’s quarters were added.

By 1882 the penitentiary included 244 steel cells and a 250 capacity chapel. A new 19 foot wall enclosed 2 acres. A large area surrounding the prison was used by inmates to farm and raise livestock for inmate consumption.

Note: After World War II the growth of the city to the south and east made it imperative to construct the prison facility in a more isolated area, at the Point of the Mountain (1951).

See other historic markers in the series on this page for SUP Markers.

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Three Mile Creek Settlement

06 Friday Jun 2014

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Three Mile Creek, later named Perry, originated in 1853 with the arrival in the Three Mile Creek Valley of the William Plummer Tippetts family and Lorenzo and May Perry.

They were soon joined by William Walker, Thomas C. Young, Alex Perry, and Robert Henderson and their families. Earlier the land had been claimed by Orrin Porter Rockwell and was an important camp site for Indians and pioneers passing through.

Ashael Thorne and Hyrum Tippetts built a saw mill at the mouth of the canyon in 1860. Other mills in the area were a shingle mill and a molasses mill. A cooperative store was founded in 1865 with Henry Perry president. The Union Pacific Railroad was built here in 1869.

Elizabeth Osborne was the first recorded teacher; school was held in her home. The first school building was built of logs in 1863. Here all community meetings and dances were held.

The Three Mile Creek Branch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was established in 1854, with Gustavus Adolphus Perry as Presiding Elder. The Three Mile Creek Ward was organized August 19, 1877, with Orrin Alonzo Perry as Bishop and his wife Jane as Relief Society President. In 1898 the name of the settlement was officially changed to Perry in honor of Bishop Perry.

Located at 2419 South Elm Grove Drive in Perry, Utah.

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The Tithing Barn Block

06 Friday Jun 2014

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A tithing barn was built on this property in the summer of 1885, two years after the first settlers arrived in Rexburg. The barn was built of 1×10 inch rough lumber and put together with wooden pegs. It was sixty feet long and thirty feet wide. The lower floor housed grain, animals, and produce, while the loft held hay. As the Pioneer Saints in this area had very little money, they paid tithes with produce which was stored in the barn and disbursed as needed.

There were no homes available in 1888 when Jacob Spori came to Rexburg to be the first head of the Bannock Academy (Ricks College). He and his family were housed temporarily in the empty tithing bar. On July 6, 1888, Elizabeth Spori Stowell was born in one of the grain bins that had been converted into a temporary bedroom.

In 1899 the tithing barn was sold to John A. Garner, one of the original settlers. It was taken apart and moved one-half mile east to 657 North Hill Road where it was reassembled and used. It is standing there today (1988).

A tithing offer was built near the barn. Later it was sold and converted into a home. In 1919 the building was razed so the Adams School could be built on the property. The First Ward Church, a rock building, was built on this block in 1905. In 1976 the rock church was severely damaged in the Teton Dam flood and replaced with a new building at a new location.

Curlew Valley

06 Friday Jun 2014

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Curlew Valley, named after the curlew snipe that nests here, extends from Snowville, Utah, to the Idaho towns of Stone and Holbrook. The first recorded white men were Peter Skene Ogden‘s large party of trappers, who camped on Deep Creek December 27, 1828.

Some of the discharged members of the Mormon Battalion, on their way from California to Salt Lake City on September 18, 1848, camped on Deep Creek and also in a cave one mile east called Hollow Rock.

The beginning of Deep Creek is a large spring at Holbrook which runs through the center of the valley and has never varied even in dry years. About one mile southwest is Rocky Ford, where the pioneers were able to cross on solid rock. In 1869 William Robbins, Thomas Showell, and William M. Harris settled at the Curlew Sinks, ten miles west of here, where Deep Creek sinks into the ground. The old pioneer trail and the stage line went through their ranch.

The first townsite in Curlew Valley was Snowville, named in honor of President Lorenzo Snow, and laid out August 14, 1876.

This monument is located in Snowville Park at 70 North Stone Road in Snowville, Utah