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Monthly Archives: June 2016

First Presbyterian Church of Salt Lake City

28 Tuesday Jun 2016

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Churches, historic, Historic Buildings, Historic Churches, NRHP, Presbyterian, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, utah

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With the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869, the isolation of Salt Lake City was broken, and the Church of the Latter Day Saints witnessed an ever-increasing non-Mormon population in their city. Sheldon Jackson recruited newly ordained home missionary Josiah Welsh (1841–1876) to organize a Protestant congregation.

The First Presbyterian Church was organized in November, 1871 with eleven members. Its first building, built with monies solicited in the East, was the first home of Westminster College, and was occupied for thirty years before the congregation, which grew to over five hundred members, moved to its present facility. Walter E. Ware designed the Gothic Revival structure, with its low square tower and patterned on the cathedral church of Carlyle, England. The exterior was built of locally quarried red butte stone with hard stone trim.

First occupied in 1905, the congregation substantially enlarged, renovated, and modernized it in 1956. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It is also Entry No. 323 on the American Presbyterian/Reformed Historic Sites Registry.

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Cathedral of the Madeleine

27 Monday Jun 2016

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The Cathedral of the Madeleine is a Roman Catholic church in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. It was completed in 1909 and currently serves as the cathedral, or mother church, of the Diocese of Salt Lake City. It is the only cathedral in the US under the patronage of St. Mary Magdalene.

The cathedral was built under the direction of Lawrence Scanlan, the first bishop of Salt Lake. It was designed by architects Carl M. Neuhausen and Bernard O. Mecklenburg. The outside is predominantly a Neo-Romanesque design, while the inside tends more toward the Neo-Gothic. Construction began in 1900 and was completed in 1909. It was dedicated by Cardinal James Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore.

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West Jordan, Utah

21 Tuesday Jun 2016

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West Jordan received its name from Mormon settlers who entered the Salt Lake Valley in 1847 under the leadership of their prophet, Brigham Young. These first European-Americans thought of the area to be their Zion, or Holy Land, and thus named the river flowing west of their first settlement, Salt Lake City, the Western Jordan, a reference to the River Jordan in Israel. The name was later simplified to “Jordan River”. Like its Middle Eastern namesake, the Jordan River flows from a fresh water lake (Utah Lake) to an inland salt sea (Great Salt Lake). West Jordan was founded around 1849 on the western banks of the Jordan River.

One of the first sawmills in the area was built in 1850 in the city by Archibald Gardner. Gardner was a devout Mormon whose legacy can still be seen in modern West Jordan. His collection of mills and houses, now historic, have been renovated into a specialty shopping district known as Gardner Village.

Early West Jordan relied primarily on agriculture, mills, and mining activity to form the base of its economy. The first leather tannery west of the Mississippi River was constructed in the city in 1851.

Calico, California

21 Tuesday Jun 2016

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In 1881 four prospectors were leaving Grapevine Station (present day Barstow, California) for a mountain peak to the northeast. Describing the peak as “calico-colored”, the peak, the mountain range to which it belonged, and the town that followed were all called Calico.  The four prospectors discovered silver in the mountain, and opened the Silver King Mine, which was California’s largest silver producer in the mid-1880s.  A post office was established in early 1882, and the Calico Print, a weekly newspaper, started publishing. The town soon supported three hotels, five general stores, a meat market, bars, brothels, and three restaurants and boarding houses. The county established a school district and a voting precinct.  The town also had a deputy sheriff and two constables, two lawyers and a justice of the peace, five commissioners, and two doctors. There was also a Wells Fargo office and a telephone and telegraph service.  At its height of silver production during 1883 and 1885,  Calico had over 500 mines and a population of 1,200 people.  Local badmen were buried in the Boot Hill cemetery.

The discovery of the borate mineral colemanite in the Calico mountains a few years after the settlement of the town also helped Calico’s fortunes, and in 1890 the estimated population of the town was 3,500, with nationals of China, England, Ireland, Greece, France, and the Netherlands, as well as Americans living there.  In the same year, the Silver Purchase Act was enacted, and it drove down the price of silver.  By 1896, its value had decreased to $0.57 per troy ounce, and Calico’s silver mines were no longer economically viable.   The post office was discontinued in 1898,  and the school closed not long after.  By the turn of the century, Calico was all but a ghost town,  and with the end of borax mining in the region in 1907 the town was completely abandoned. Many of the original buildings were moved to Barstow, Daggett and Yermo.

See also, “Town of Calico” historic marker.

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An attempt to revive the town was made in about 1915, when a cyanide plant was built to recover silver from the unprocessed Silver King Mine’s deposits. Walter Knott and his wife Cordelia, founders of Knott’s Berry Farm, were homesteaded at Newberry Springs around this time, and Knott helped build the redwood cyanide tanks for the plant.  In 1951, Knott purchased the town and began restoring it to its original condition referencing old photographs. He installed a longtime employee named “Calico Fred” Noller as resident caretaker and official greeter.  In 1966, Knott donated the town to San Bernardino County, and Calico became a County Regional Park.

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First Sevier County Jail

13 Monday Jun 2016

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Just below the Old Lime Kiln you can see the first County Jail.

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The first County Jail was built in 1879, and was located on Third North and Main Street.  It joined the County Court House on the East.  The Jail consisted of two cells build by spiking 2×4’s and nailing them together.  The cells were plastered.  The rood was shingled and was supposed to be rainproof.  A high board fence was built around the lot.  The bed ticks were filled with straw and a board served as a bed.

 

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Old Lime Kiln

13 Monday Jun 2016

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This old lime kiln, now restored, is the best preserved of seven kilns constructed here during the late 1880’s. It was built by John Kyhl for Jens Larsen Jenson, a Swedish immigrant. The vital lime was used in the construction of homes, churches and schools of the early settlers. Limestone was quarried in the nearby hills, malted down in the kilns and cooled – a process that took several days. The result was a fine, white powder suitable for brick-making, mortar and plaster. Use of this kiln ended around 1905 when Mr. Jensen went blind from exposure to the extreme heat.

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

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Lehi Fort Wall – Southwest

13 Monday Jun 2016

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Lehi City was incoprorated on 5 February 1852, making it Utah’s sixth oldest community.  The peopling of Utah Valley by Mormon settlers was followed by two decades of tumultuous relations with Native Americans.  The area was the ancestral homeland of Ute Indians.  For centuries they had dwelt around Utah Lake, fishing, hunting, and harvesting native plants for food.  Their way of life was dramatically upended by the arrival of white settlers.

Mormons believed that Indians were a “remnant of scattered Israel,” a fallen race whose ancestors history was outlined in the Book of Mormon.  Utah Territorial Governor Brigham Young initially viewed Native Americans as “people of destiny” whom Latter-day Saints were obligated to redeem.  But his position changed after unending disputes with Native Americans who were forced by starvation to raid white settlements for food.  Ultimately, Indians in Utah Valley fared no better than they did elsewhere in America.  All Utes were removed from the area by 1865.

During the Walker War of 1854 Lehi settlers were advised by Mormon church leaders to “fort up.”  Eventually the sixteen-block Lehi City was surrounded with a eight-foot high protective adobe wall 7m425 feet in lengh.  After 1858 the wall, no longer needed, began to deteriorate.  The last remaining section was demolished in 1905.

Interpretive markers at the other corners of the historic fort wall may be seen at 400 West/100 North, Center/100 North, and 300 South/Center.

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Lehi Fort Wall – Northwest

13 Monday Jun 2016

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A 7,425 foot adobe wall enclosing sixteen city blocks was built in Lehi City in 1854 a a protection against Indian depredations.  While Brigham Young is often cited as saying it was better to “feed the Indians, instead of fighting them,” Mormons, like Americans everywhere, appropriated traditional Indian hunting and fishing grounds, and fenced off grazing and watering areas.  Hunger forced Indians to raid Mormon cattle herds to prevent starvation of their people.

Indian difficulties in Lehi City were mild compared to other areas of the territory.  An incident with one small local band, however, led to the construction of one of Lehi’s most unusual buildings, the Indian House, erected one block east from this marker.

As a reward for helping apprehend the murderers of William and Warren Weeks in Pole Canyon near Cedar Fort, Lehi Bishop David Evans had ward members build Ute chieftain Yan Tan an adobe house forty-two feet long and sixteen feet wide, divided into three apartments.  Although the Indian House had a mud-and-willow roof and was floorless to allow for campfires, the Indians would only occupy the building during daylight hours.  When night fell they would move into their nearby wickiups.  After an Indian child died in the house, the superstitious Indians refused to inhabit it again.  It was demolished around the turn of the century.

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See posts on the other corners here: N.E., S.E., S.W.

Lehi Fort Wall – Southeast

13 Monday Jun 2016

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Lehi was first settled by Mormon pioneers in the fall of 1850. Due to Indian difficulties elsewhere, local citizens were advised by church leaders to enclose their sixteen-block city with a protective adobe wall. Forms were first put into place then filled with wet clay. As the adobe hardened the forms were moved higher and another layer of adobe added.”

(To obtain one of the 128 lots inside the fort’s perimeter each family was required to assist in the building of the wall. )

The completed eight-foot tall wall was 7,425 feet in length. Entrances to the walled city could be gained only through massive gates at four intersections

By 1858 the sprawling U.W. Military base at nearby Camp Floyd removed the need for city fortifications and the wall was eventually leveled. Interpretive markers are also at the other corners of the historic fort wall.

This project was funded by grants from the Utah State Historical Society and Lehi City Corporation.

See posts on the other corners here: N.E., N.W., S.W.

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Bishop David Evans

13 Monday Jun 2016

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Bishop David Evans was a general authority of the church and participated in the School of the Prophets in Kirtland.

The School of the Prophets commenced January 23, 1833, in the Newel K. Whitney Store in Kirtland. The purpose of the school was to prepare the elders to go into the world and preach the Gospel. That preparation was intellectual, spiritual, and physical, but all of it was intended to purify those men and empower them. So it was that visions and revelations were opened to them. Including a particular revelation that has become the most famous of the church and even to define its members.

This monument is at the Lehi Legacy Center:

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