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Monthly Archives: December 2017

LDS Church Administration Building

31 Sunday Dec 2017

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LDS Church, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Temple Square, utah

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LDS Church Administration Building.

Located on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints constructed this building between 1914 and 1917 to serve as its headquarters.  Prior to its completion, the office of the Church President was located just to the east between Brigham Young’s Lion House and Beehive House.  Today the Administration Building houses the offices of the Church’s First Presidency and other church leaders.  This building is an excellent example of Neoclassical Style architecture.  The 24 iconic pilasters which surround the exterior are made of solid granite.  This granite, as well as that which covers the rest of the steel and concrete structure, was taken from the same quarry as the stone used to build the Salt Lake Temple.

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Sommerset Park

31 Sunday Dec 2017

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Sommerset North Park

1450 West Main Street

One of two parks in a residential subdivision off Main Street, Sommerset North Park is approximately 2 acres. This park includes playground equipment, a pavilion and walking paths.

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Kiwanis Park

31 Sunday Dec 2017

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Kiwanis Park in Provo.

Kiwanis Park is located next to BYU and is used for league and non-league sporting events, cross- country training, ROTC training maneuvers, school club activities and of course – family gatherings. Kiwanis Park is the only park in Provo City with a fire pit, which is located next to pavilion #1.(from Provo’s website)

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First Utah County Fair Held in Provo

31 Sunday Dec 2017

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First Utah County Fair Held in Provo.

Since the late 1850s, the communities of Utah County had held their own local fairs where local products and animals were displayed, but no joint county fair had ever been held.

That changed in 1897 when newspapers announced that Provo would host the first Utah County Fair, the proceeds from which would be turned over to the Mutual Improvement Association.  Benefit concerts and the proceeds from admission tickets financed the event.

Private contributors provided awards for winners in designated categories.  The prizes included monetary awards, an umbrella, handkerchiefs, a gold thimble, books, a pen, and a box of “Gold Brick” cigars.  Taylor Brothers Department Store offered a new bedroom set to a featured couple who would marry at the fair.  John Halford, 58, and Mary Abbot, 48, became the lucky couple.

Officials chose Provo’s Z.C.M.I. Warehouse, then located on the northeast corner of what is now University Avenue and 600 South, as the site of the fair.  Dancers attending the grand ball voted for the Queen of the Fair.  They could vote for any girl on a list of candidates as many times as they wanted, but it cost them five cents per vote.  The contest netted $128.00 and Miss Frona Burraston, who hailed from the “Land of Goshen,” became queen.

The week-long fair opened on October 11, 1897.  Livestock, home manufactured goods, and locally grown fruits and vegetables entertained a sizable crowd.  Exhibits by the Utah County Silk Association, Startup Candy, E.C. Hendricksen Pottery, and Denhalter soda pop were among the favorite exhibits.  On the dark side, gravestones sold by Beesley Monument and a plush upholstered coffin manufactured by O.H. Berg and attracted visitors.

People flocked to activities like the stock parade, children’s parade, an old fashioned tea party, and horse, bicycle, and foot races.  After expenses and proceeds were tallied, the fair committee announced the celebration had made a net profit of $307.48.

This plaque is #30 in this series and is located in Kiwanis Park in Provo.

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Provo Hosted Utah’s Largest Trading Fair

31 Sunday Dec 2017

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Provo Hosted Utah’s Largest Trading Fair Between the Utes and Pioneers.

In February, 1850, militiamen from Fort Utah and Salt Lake City defeated the Timpanogots band of Utes in a pitched battle on the banks of the Provo River near what is now Riverside Plaza.

The Indians who survived escaped from the valley.  Brigham Young did not wish to alienate the other bands that made up the Ute tribe, and he looked for a way to rebuild friendship with these Utes.

It was customary for Utes from other valleys in Utah Territory to gather along the Provo River during the spawning season each spring to catch fish.  When President Young learned that these Utes were anxious to talk peace and trade with the Mormons, he made arrangements for a trading fair to he held near Fort Utah.  Young hoped this would foster friendliness between the two peoples and show the Utes that it was advantageous to have a settlement here.

Brigham Young and other Mormon leaders accompanied a small wagon caravan of goods to Fort Utah.  Young hoped to complete several days of successful trading and peace talks.  Watching the colonists wrestling, gambling, and betting on horse races shocked the Mormon leader.

By the afternoon of the first day of festivities, Young had seen enough.  He assigned a small number of traders to stay and conduct trading and ordered all others from Salt Lake City to return home.  He later received “a very unfavorable report of the conduct of the brethren at Fort Utah.”

After reading this message, Young ordered the traders to gather up all of the unsold merchandise and return to Salt Lake City.  Church authorities immediately tried the brethren for Fort Utah for their deplorable behavior and disfellowshipped them as a group.  Then they immediately forgave the unrepentant transgressors and returned them to fellowship.  However, Young sent word to the Utes that the next big trade would not be held in Utah Valley.

This plaque is #30 in this series and is located in Kiwanis Park in Provo.

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Provo Once Had a Silk Industry

29 Friday Dec 2017

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Provo Once Had a Silk Industry.

As early as 1856, Brigham Young and other Utah leaders considered raising silk worms and manufacturing silk cloth in Utah to be a necessary step toward self-sufficiency.   Making silk locally would also help reduce the flow of cash out of the territory.  Young sent to France for mulberry seeds and planted 25 acres of mulberry trees.  The leaves from these trees later provided food for silk worms that manufactured the silk thread used to manufacture cloth.

Growth of the silk industry in Provo did not begin until shortly after Brigham Young’s death in 1877.  Late that year, Daniel Graves, a Provo horticulturist, began to urge the local Relief Society sister to follow the counsel of the late Mormon president and manufacture silk.  Those who were interested in the silk business established the Silk Association of Utah County.  They planted over 3000 mulberry trees and raised silk worms. That year Graves collected enough silk thread to manufacture 25 yards of cloth.

Members renamed the organization the Utah Stake Silk Association in 1879. They bought a loom, and an English weaver brought some silk frames to Provo when he immigrated to Utah. Daniel Graves collected enough silk thread of Northern Utah that year to weave 750 yards of cloth. He made and sold dress goods and handkerchiefs from the material.

By 1882 a silk factory in Salt Lake City provided an outlet for Provo’s surplus silk thread.

The high point of the silk industry in Provo came when Sarah Saunders wove silk cloth and created a large American flat that won first prize at the Columbia Exposition in Chicago in 1893. Interest in silk manufacturing gradually decreased when it became apparent that silk could be imported from Japan and China cheaper than it could be made in Utah, and the silk association was dissolved in 1906. For many years afterward, mulberry trees remained a common sight in Provo.

This plaque is #56 in this series and is located in Footprinter Park in Provo.

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Footprinter Park

29 Friday Dec 2017

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Footprinter Park in Provo.

Footprinter Park was constructed in 1991 and was built to facilitate baseball games for the community. A small pavilion, nestled on an island in the center of a small pond, was built to provide a comfortable area to have a fun-filled intimate family picnic.(from Provo’s website)

For other parks in Provo visit this page.

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Dudler’s Inn

28 Thursday Dec 2017

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Dudler’s Inn (see Dudler’s Wine Cellar)

Perhaps one of the longest living and prominent residents of the area known as Parley’s Hallow, now officially Parley’s Historic Nature Preserve, was Joseph Dudler. About 1864, he settled in this location. Here he built his home. It was two stories, thirty-six by fifty-six feet in size, with rock foundation walls, the narrow front facing south, and the rest of the first floor dug into the side of the valley. The remains of the rock wall, east of the still existing foundation stones of the original building, is a continuation of the front wall of the lower floor of his Inn. The story above was frame with vertical siding, and it was here that the “Rooms To Let,” dining, and kitchen spaces were provided.

As business improved, in 1870, he built a brewery to the rear and west of the Inn. To provide further for this, he built an addition to the Inn itself, continuing the rock foundations further north sixteen feet with an adobe instead of frame upper story. In addition, he continued the lower floor north, only four feet further in the ground, with what has been called the “Wine Cellar.” Still there, it was a rock-walled room, underground, about fifteen-and-a-half feet wide and twenty feet long with ten-foot high, domed, rock ceiling. It is an ideal place for keeping things cool.

His irrigation water supply was brought to the site in a ditch from Parley’s Canyon Creek, but for drinking water he used a spring on the property northeast of the Inn location which is still flowing.

Dudler operated a saloon or two in town as well as the Inn, and in 1892, added a similar business in Park City where he also continued in the brewing and saloon business. He kept the farm and brewery area going in Parley’s Hallow until his death in October of 1897. His descendants continued using the Inn as a residence, referring to it as the “homestead” until it was destroyed by fire, the work of vandals, the night of the 17th of October, 1952.

This is SUP Marker #75, to see the other SUP Markers visit this page.  This marker is located in Parley’s Historic Nature Park along with 4 others (listed on the park’s page).

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The Golden Pass Road and Tollhouse

28 Thursday Dec 2017

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2017-10-22 17.34.58

The Golden Pass Road and Tollhouse

“Travel the Golden Pass, open July fourth (1849). Immigrants coming into the valley may now avoid the difficult routes over Big and Little Mountains by taking the new route. Several thousand dollars have been spent by the proprietor.” So ran part of an advertisement in the third issue of the Deseret News of June 29, 1850.

Parley P. Pratt, having been through the mouth of Parley’s Canyon as well as traversed the Emigration Canyon route, decided that with a certain amount of effort he could make the Parley’s Canyon route much easier than the other. He made a road from what was called Dell Fork, where the Mountain Dell Reservoir is located, down to what eventually became the center of Sugar House, at about what now is Twenty-first South and Eleventh East Streets. Due to the narrowness of Parley’s Canyon, the road crossed the stream sixteen times en-route. It was not a super highway but far surpassed the route down Emigration Canyon. Although some travelers complained about the roughness of the road, those familiar with both routes still preferred it to the original route. To help reimburse Pratt for the costs of construction, a toll or passage fee was charged. The advertisement continues: $.75 for a two-horse outfit, ten cents for each additional pack or saddle animal, and sheep a mere cent per head.”

The toll gate was located on the north side of the stream directly below where the SUP Headquarters is located on the south rim of the canyon at 3300 East Street. Impressions of the old dirt road still can be seen in the hollow, running in front of the relic foundations of Dudler’s Inn. The road ran along the north side of Suicide rock, and when the railroad was introduced it passed the rock on its south side.

A big celebration was held upon the opening of the new road on July 4, 1850. Thus was presented a new route where incoming travelers, whether in wagons, on horseback, the Pony Express, handcarts, walking or eventually even with a stage coach, might safely make their way into the valley.

Eventually the road became part of the transcontinental Lincoln Highway and later I-80 and all follow the mouth of the canyon to the turn-off for East Canyon, now at Jeremy’s Ranch, and later east of Silver Creek Junction in Echo Canyon where the trail turns north to Echo and points east.

This is SUP Marker #76, to see the other SUP Markers visit this page.  This marker is located in Parley’s Historic Nature Park along with 4 others (listed on the park’s page).

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Sandstone Wall & Aquaduct

28 Thursday Dec 2017

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Sandstone Wall & Aquaduct

Parley’s Creek, originally known by the Indian name Obit-Ki-Ke-Che Creek, was the largest stream of water which flowed from the Wasatch Mountains into the valley. This creek had beginning high in the Wasatch Mountains to the north near what became known as Pratt’s Pass, near Lookout Peak. It ran through the pass near Little Mountain Summit and over into Parley’s Canyon where it was joined by other streams on its journey into the valley. From its entrance into the valley the water coursed its way northwest until it finally joined the Jordan River near Fifth South Street on its way to Great Salt Lake.

With the growth area west and north of the mouth of Parley’s Canyon, it became apparent that a way had to be found to carry the water to those needing it. Ditches were dug which were fine for those living in the bottom lands of the hollow, but it was soon determined that its walls were to be built with a conduit running along its top, like those done by the ancient Romas but on a much smaller scale, water could be lifted up to the plateaus on the north and south sides of the hollow. A water commission was formed of property owners in the bottoms as well as on the north and south plateau areas to determine how this was to be done as well as to see that the water was fairly distributed.

The walls were built of sandstone blocks from the canyon and were constructed with the channel on the top to convey the water as needed. The reservoir was built in 1891 and the walls shortly after. Only a relatively small segment remains. It is still a handsome piece of masonry, forty feet high where it cut across a ravine and an arch was laid up to allow for the water draining through the ravine to be unhampered in its course to Parley’s Creek. Early photographs show lombardy poplars had been planted along the route, at least along the segment still extant.

This section of the north wall is all that remains of either wall. The rocks were either abandoned in place or lifted out and used for construction of other buildings or left on the valley floor. The water needs were provided for in the construction of the Mountain Dell Reservoir five miles up the canyon in 1915.

This is SUP Marker #77, to see the other SUP Markers visit this page.  This marker is located in Parley’s Historic Nature Park along with 4 others (listed on the park’s page).

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