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Union Cemetery

17 Friday Nov 2017

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Cemeteries, Cottonwood Heights, historic, Historic Markers, Salt Lake County, Sandy, utah

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The Union Cemetery in Sandy.

Location: 1455 East Creek Road, Sandy, UT

Text from DUP Marker #155 reads:

Rufus Forbush buried his wife, Polly Clark, at this spot on 22 August 1851. In 1852, after several victims of a Black Smallpox epidemic had been buried here, he contributed the land for use as a pioneer cemetery and many of the prominent early citizens of Union were buried here. All official records are lost but the restorers of the cemetery have been able to identify the graves of 48 adults, 72 children and 20 persons of undetermined age.

Green and Martha Flake are buried here, two of the first 3 African American people to join the LDS Church and to come into the Salt Lake Valley. (See Legacy of the Black Pioneer)

There is a plaque for the Olaus Johnson Family reading:

Olaus Johnson, a twin, was born November 17, 1833, to Johan Olsen (Heggum) and Karen Olsen (Winnes) in Nordstand, Royken-Buskerud, Norway.  At the age of nine, he went into the fishing trade with his father and at fifteen, he left to become a sailor.  After six years, he was commissioned as a “captain.”  He lived on the sea until he was twenty-nine years old.

Olaus and his family were converted to the L.D.S. Church and migrated to Utah in September of 1863; along with Anna Helena Dyresen, Marie Hansen, Martin Mattias Olsen, Amphion (Olsen) Johnson, Little Olsen, and Charles Kalo Ingelinn Olsen.  Olaus and Anna Helena Dyresen Amundsen (daughter of Dyre Amundsen and Gjretude Marie Olsen) were married in Echo Canyon September 9, 1863, prior to arriving in the Salt Lake valley.  They settled in South Cottonwood and later moved to West Jordan where they lived in a dugout.  They later lived for a period of two years in Mill Creek, and then back again to West Jordan.  In 1866, they moved again to South Cottonwood.  During this period, their first son drowned in an irrigation ditch.

More immigrants came from Norway in the fall if 1864.  Included was Paulina Thomasen (Thomasdatter), daughter of Thomas Syverson and Marie Pederson, who came to live with the Johnsons.  Olaus and Paulina were married on Jamuary 13, 1867.  Due to the U.S. anti-polygamy raids, he was forced to hide out most of the time.  Following a period in California, he finally returned and turned himself over to the authorities and as a result, spent six months in the penitentiary.

Prior to his death on March 22, 1922, Olaus served two missions for the L.D.S. Church.  He was a skilled craftsman and spent most of his life as a carpenter, mason, and farmer.  Olaus is buried in the Murray City Cemetery.

This is listed on the SUP Marker list as # J-1 and is on the DUP Marker list as #155.

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Parks in Cottonwood Heights

20 Tuesday Dec 2016

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A list of parks in Cottonwood Heights:

  • Antczak Park
  • Butler Park
  • Bywater Park
  • Golden Hills Park
  • Mill Hollow Park
  • Mountview Park

Golden Hills Park

20 Tuesday Dec 2016

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Golden Hills Park, one of Cottonwood Height’s Parks.

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Union, Utah

02 Friday Dec 2016

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In 1849, eight families were sent to settle what would become Union. According to A Union, Utah, History by Steven K. Madsen, “Jehu Cox, the first settler of Union, donated ten acres of his farming land for the establishment of [a] fort.” “By 1854, a total of 23 homes had been built inside the fort – the population stood at 273,” Madsen continued. The population according to the U.S. Census Bureau was 484 in 1880, 602 in 1890, and 757 in 1900. Between 1848 and 1872, other settlements included Butler Bench, Poverty Flats, and Danish Town.

What was once Union is now parts of Cottonwood Heights, Midvale, and Sandy. Within the Cottonwood Heights area, Butler and Union Precincts (a basic form of county government) were established in 1877, as were Butler School District 57 and Union School District 23. The Unified Jordan School District would not be created until 1905.

Little Cottonwood Rocks

23 Tuesday Dec 2014

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Big Cottonwood Canyon, Cottonwood Heights, Geology, Holladay, Little Cottonwood Canyon, Murray, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Sandy

See Also: G.K. Gilbert Geologic View Park

Little Cottonwood Rocks
Geology and History of Little Cottonwood Canyon.

Little Cottonwood Bedrock

Three Bedrock units are visible on the north side of, and in Little Cottonwood Canyon :

  • Little Willow Formation

Little Willow Formation

Little Willow Formation

The little willow formation is approximately 1.7 billion years old, making it the oldest rock in the Salt Lake City area. The highly metamorphosed rock consists primarily of intensely contorted quartz schist and gneiss intruded by igneous rocks that have been altered to amphibolite and chlorite schist.

Big Cottonwood Formation

Big Cottonwood Formation

Big Cottonwood Formation

One billion to 850 million years old, the Big Cottonwood Formation is a low-grade metamorphic rock that consists of reddish-brown quartzite and black to purple to green shale, argilite, and slate. Originally deposited along the shoreline of an ancient sea, ripple marks and mud cracks are still preserved in this rock.

The rock on the north canyon wall is easy to distinguish from the adjacent light gray “granite” father up the canyon.

Little Cottonwood Stock

Little Cottonwood Stock

Little Cottonwood Stock

This igneous rock is quartz monzonite, or more generally called granite. Between 32 and 31 million years ago, magma pushed up through the crust into overlying rock layers and then cooled and solidified before reaching the surface. Quartz monzonite is composed of plagioclase, quartz, orthoclase, biotite, and hornblende.

Popular for rock climbing, this light grey granite rock makes up most of the canyon walls.

A history of the rocks in this area :

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Cottonwood Heights, Utah

23 Tuesday Dec 2014

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Cottonwood Heights, Fort Union, Holladay, Midvale, Murray, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Sandy, utah

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Cottonwood Heights Posts:

  • Butlerville
  • Cottonwood Historic Areas
  • Cottonwood Settlement
  • Cottonwood Paper Mill
  • The Knudsen Flour Mill
  • Parks in Cottonwood Heights
  • Union
  • Union Cemetery
  • Cottonwood Heights posts sorted by address

The first use of the Cottonwood Heights name occurred in 1937 when J.D. Fife, Sr., a Butlerville resident, so named his proposed subdivision. The name was officially adopted in 1953 by the newly organized Cottonwood Heights Community Council.

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Cottonwood Settlement

10 Tuesday Jun 2014

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This wooded area, named for the Cottonwood trees, was originally located between Big and Little Cottonwood Creeks, from 13th East to the foothills of the Wasatch Mountains. The Big and Little Cottonwood Canyons were identified by a large Cottonwood tree at the mouth of the north canyon and a smaller one near the mouth of the south canyon. The creeks meandered across the land. Heavy rains and snows created a huge spring runoff in 1862, cutting new channels, which the Pioneer settlers widened and dredged, struggling to tame the creek. They dug many ditches and two canals. Granite from the Little Cottonwood quarry paraded down Vine Street for the construction of the Salt Lake Temple.

As this farming settlement grew southward, distance and swollen creek beds made it difficult to attend church, school and community events outside the Cottonwood area. A branch of the Big Cottonwood Ward was organized for Cottonwood on October 11, 1885; meetings were held in homes, then schools. In 1890, the first school, an existing log cabin on Spring Lane, was taught by Martha Moses. In 1893, Spillett’s Hall, containing the local post office and store, housed the school for a year. In 1894, students attended a one-room log cabin located just behind the present Oakwood School. In 1896, District 37 built a two-room red brick school. A larger four-room Oakwood School was completed in 1913. Businesses were scattered along Highland Drive.

Big Cottonwood Ward was divided on February 12, 1911, creating Holladay and Brinton Wards. Albert Quist became Bishop, with Edward C. Bagley and Ensign Woodruff serving as counselors. Brinton Ward continued to meet in the school until December 10, 1914, when the chapel was ready. From Ensign Woodruff’s journal (son of President Wilford Woodruff): “I was the contractor… With Fred Smith’s team and my plow, we broke ground… My brother, John, donated the ground…” As the very first chapel built entirely by voluntary labor and contributions, the Brinton Ward building was dedicated by President Heber J. Grant on February 12,1928, as the Cottonwood Ward. The settlement of Cottonwood became known as a ward of Salt Lake City.

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Union Cemetery

29 Thursday May 2014

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Cottonwood Heights, DUP, historic, Historic Markers, Midvale, Salt Lake County, Sandy, utah

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Rufus Forbush buried his wife, Polly Clark, at this spot on 22 August 1851. In 1852, after several victims of a Black Smallpox epidemic had been buried here, he contributed the land for use as a pioneer cemetery and many of the prominent early citizens of Union were buried here. All official records are lost but the restorers of the cemetery have been able to identify the graves of 48 adults, 72 children and 20 persons of undetermined age.

See also:

  • Union Cemetery

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The Knudsen Flour Mill

14 Wednesday May 2014

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Cottonwood Heights, DUP, historic, Holladay, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Sandy, utah

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This mill was established on this site in 1878, by Rasmus Christian Knudsen, a millwright and master joiner from Arlborg, Denmark. In 1864, he immigrated to Utah with his wife and two small children, walking across the plains, so that his family could ride. Immediately following his arrival in Utah, Brigham Young engaged him in building mills. First he built the Mork Jeff Flour Mill in Heber City, then sawmills in Big Cottonwood Canyon, and other mills in Utah, including windmills.

This stone is believed to be the largest mill stone and first pearling stone west of the Mississippi River. Rasmus cut it from a piece of hard quartzite, hauled from Farmington Canyon by six yoke of oxen. The curved furrowing around the edges is known as “sickle dressing” which, when revolving against its counterpart on the stone above, caused a scissoring action that removed the husks from the grains of barley.

The Knudsen Mill operated for nearly 30 years and was awarded prize winning medallions for its high quality products. These included white and graham flour, cornmeal, pearled barley, cracked wheat, hominy, and steel-cut oatmeal, milled in a machine invented by Rasmus Knudsen.

Both Knudsen’s Grove, founded in 1912, and Knudsen’s Corner, in 1919, owe their origins to the Knudsen Flour Mill.

Located in Holladay, this is DUP Marker #488

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