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The First Statewide Pioneer Day Celebration

03 Friday Jan 2020

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Benchmarks, Big Cottonwood Canyon, Brighton, Celebrations, Hsitoric Markers, Pioneers, Salt Lake County, SUP, UPTLA, utah

The First Statewide Pioneer Day Celebration Was held in this Basin July 23-24, 1857

Headed by Brigham Young, the company reaching here July 23d numbered 2,587 persons, with 464 carriages & wagons, 1,028 horses & mules, and 332 oxen & cows.

A program of addresses, six brass bands, singing, athletic events, drills by six companies of militia, and dancing, was punctuated by salutes from a brass howitzer. U. S. flags were flown from two highest peaks and two highest trees, the flag tree in front of Brigham Young’s campsite being 70 feet N. W. of here. At noon July 24, Judson Stoddard and A. O. Smoot, 20 days from the States, with Elias Smith and O. P. Rockwell, arrived with news of the advance of Johnston’s army against the “Mormons”. The company returned in orderly formation on July 25th.

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