26 Monday Oct 2015
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Granite, historic, Historic Homes, Salt Lake County, Sandy, utah
Peggy Allphin Ogborn was telling me some of the history of this house, I stopped to get photos and will need to get the stories written up and added here.
It’s at 3245 9600 S, Sandy, UT 84092
23 Monday Mar 2015
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Cemeteries, Granite, historic, Salt Lake County, Sandy, utah
05 Thursday Jun 2014
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In the 1860’s miners, granite quarry freighters and stagecoach drivers used a halfway camping ground 333 yards to the so. west on Little Willow Creek. Others built homes, boarding houses, 2 stores, 3 saloons, a slaughter yard, blacksmith shop, warehouse, livery stable. F.A. Hoofman & Co. Real Estate Office – John W. Lawrence, Agent. Population reached about 500. After 1871, town was moved to Little Cottonwood Canyon and renamed Ragtown. Several unmarked graves are all that remain.
05 Thursday Jun 2014
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In the 1860’s, a town named Granite was located at the mouth of Little Cottonwood Canyon by ore miners of Alta, Silverton and Tannersville. Its desertion began as the mines closed about 1882. The surrounding country had been settled by Latter-day Saints. Granite Ward organized July 1877, chose Solomon J. Despain, bishop. A rock ward house was used for worship and school until the completion in 1890 of the one-room building on this block.
This chapel is located at 9795 S 3100 E in Sandy, Utah
This chapel was later purchased by Avard T. Fairbanks and used as a studio.
31 Thursday Oct 2013
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Alta, Butler, Cottonwood, Granite, historic, Little Cottonwood Canyon, Salt Lake County, Sandy, Silverton, Tannersville, utah
In the 1860′s, a town named Granite was located at the mouth of Little Cottonwood Canyon by ore miners of Alta, Silverton and Tannersville. Its desertion began as the mines closed about 1882. The surrounding country had been settled by Latter-day Saints. Granite Ward organized July 1877, chose Solomon J. Despain, bishop. A rock ward house was used for worship and school until the completion in 1890 of the one-room building on this block.
Four miles east of Sandy City and south of Butler. In 1870 it was a good campsite for teamsters, quarrymen, and miners who were working in the Mormon church granite quarries and the mines in the vicinity. When transportation became more efficient during a time of reduced operations in this area, the camp was abandoned, only to be subsequently rejuvenated with modern, permanent residences. The town was named Granite because of its proximity to the granite quarries that provided the blocks for the Salt Lake Temple.
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