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Echo Church and School

25 Sunday Sep 2016

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Echo Church and School 

Constructed C. 1876, this building served protestants as a church and school until 1880  when it was sold to the Echo School District. Latter-day Saints then obtained permission to worship here and bought the building in 1913. The chapel served until 1963 when it was closed due to Echo’s declining population. The young adults, L.D.S youth group, reopened the chapel in 1974 and placed this marker in 1976.

Echo School and Church

This Victorian Gothic building stands as the remaining historic edifice of “Echo City,” one of many boom towns built along the Transcontinental Railroad. In 1876, the Echo City School District constructed the building with English immigrant John Shill reportedly designing and supervising the construction. Most of the materials are local: red pine lumber from Saw Mill in Echo Canyon, sandstone from a quarry in Grass Creek, brick from clay in the Echo hills. The bell arrived by rail. Protestants began using the building for evangelical purposes in 1882, and for a few years even provided the weekday school classes. The LDS Church began worshiping here in 1905 and purchased the building in 1914 after Echo built a new school house. In 1940 major remodeling occurred, including a concrete basement and stairway. People of all denominations helped. The building became idle in 1963 as a result of Echo’s decline in population. A local LDS Young Adult group used the building in the 1970’s. In 1983 ECHO, a non-profit corporation dedicated to preserving the site, purchased the building to continue its use as a community
center.

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Pony Express Station – Weber

15 Thursday Sep 2016

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Captain Albert Tracy on April 7, 1860 reported that the station at the mouth of Echo Canyon was being used for a system of relays known as the “Pony Express.”  The next day he was passed by Dave, the Express Boy, on his Kentucky Racer going east in a snow storm.  John Ridge in July 1861 stated that a good supper can be had at Weber Station.

James E. Bromley, division superintendent from Pacific Springs, Wyoming to Salt lake City for the Pony Express Company settled at this site.

Originally there were two wood buildings at the site, the station and the stables.  More substantial buildings were built later to serve the stage line and then the railroad.  These original two buildings stood at this site.  Later on Echo City was laid out by the Union Pacific Railroad.

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Another historic marker in Henefer reads: 

Along the entire trail, from St. Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California, “horse stations” were established every 40 to 80 miles, providing riders with meals, lodging, and fresh mounts. “Swing stations” were 8 to 12 miles apart, offering water and a change of horses.

Russell, Majors, and Waddell, owners of the Central Overland California & Pike’s Peak Express Company, employed James E. Bromley to establish and operate Weber Station. The station was located about 5 miles to the southeast, at the mouth of Echo Canyon. Local residents James and William Hennefer or Charles and Louisa Richins would have seen young riders William Page and George Little gallop by on the way to and from “Bromley’s Station.”

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Echo, Utah

14 Saturday Jun 2014

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Mormons settled in Echo Canyon in 1861 and marketed produce to a steady stream of travelers. In 1868, thousands of Mormon men were employed by the railroad to bore tunnels and build grades. Irish workers set the ties and laid the rails. Construction in Echo and Weber canyons was the most challenging along the entire Union Pacific route. On October 15, 1868, Brigham Young Jr. purchased this entire valley from James E. Bromley for $200 and designated it Echo City. Deseret Evening News reporter Edward Slone wrote of seeing fewer than half-a-dozen buildings here before Christmas 1868 but over 50, four weeks later. The first locomotive reached Echo City January 16, 1869, and was met with joyful celebration. Completion of the transcontinental railroad essentially ended an era in America, the westward migration of settlers by wagon train.

Echo City’s original plat had fourteen 80-foot-wide avenues, crossing the valley cast and west, which were named for Brigham Young Jr.’s wives. The streets, running north and south, were named in honor of Union Pacific dignitaries.

The railroad’s construction and completion stimulated the development of Echo City. “Surely the advent of the Union Pacific Railroad into our isolated and peaceful valleys of the mountains brought radical changes to our people for both good and evil.”

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Temple Camp and Supplication Hills

10 Tuesday Jun 2014

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On Saturday, July 17, 1847, Brigham Young and the main group of pioneers left their camp a mile up Echo Canyon and due to Brigham’s illness, traveled only 2-½ miles. Their camp of July 17-18, was .4 miles west of this marker on the east bank of the Weber River. Sabbath meetings were held in the Temple Camp on the 19th. Brigham Young was washed and anointed for a blessing of health, then he fell into a deep sleep and awakened feeling much better. Their prayers were answered.

At about 2 p.m. on Saturday, July 17, four members of the Quorum of the Twelve and six other brethren, ascended the high and steep “Supplication Hills” to the northeast of this marker. After walking about 2 miles from the Temple Camp to the top of the mountain, they dressed for temple prayer and pled to the Lord in behalf of President Young and others who were sick in camp, the saints who were following, and for their own wives and children who were left behind at Winter Quarters.

Before rejoining the camp, they rolled large rocks down from the top of the mountain to amuse themselves. As they returned, they passed by a lone conglomerate column (Sentinel Rock) about 125 feet high, which is visible to the northeast of this marker. They also told of seeing other chimney-like rock towers situated in nearby hollows.

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This monument is Daughters of Utah Pioneers historic marker #518 and Sons of Utah Pioneers historic marker #85, located outside Echo, Utah and near Temple Rock Amphitheater.

Echo Dam Reservoir

01 Friday Nov 2013

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Echo Dam is a dam in Summit County, Utah, standing about six miles north of Coalville and creating Echo Reservoir.

The earthen dam was constructed in 1931 by the United States Bureau of Reclamation. It has a height of 158 feet, impounding the water of the Weber River and 836 square miles of the Weber Basin for water storage and agricultural irrigation. Other Weber Basin projects of the Bureau include the upstream Rockport Reservoir. Echo Dam is owned by the Bureau, and operated by the local Weber River Water Users Association. In July 2012 crews began a $50 million seismic retrofit project on the dam to address potentially unstable subsoil conditions.

Echo Reservoir has a capacity of 74,000 acre-feet. As a recreation area the reservoir offers fishing, boating, camping, and hiking.