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Located in Holladay, the Memorial Holladay Cemetery, also called Holladay Memorial Park is a beautiful cemetery with monuments, memorials and graves from pioneers to the area and recent.
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Utah Heritage Trees
Largest Austrian Pines in United States
Dedicated by Olympus Jr High
Located in Olympus Pines Park in Holladay.
May 1994
11 Monday Dec 2017
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One of the Gold Medal Miles is located here in Olympus Pines Park in Holladay. For others on the list visit this page.
05 Sunday Nov 2017
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First Settlers of Holladay
John D. Holladay, a leader of the Mississippi Company of Mormon Pioneers, entered the Salt Lake Valley on July 29, 1847.
John Holladay’s group explored the valley of the Great Salt Lake and its tributary canyons with an eye towards irrigation, wild hay for their animals, and water power for mills. Most of the Mississippi Company stayed together and by fall had planned their farms and community in the area of a free-flowing, spring-fed stream issuing from the base of Mt. Olympus. Thus the village of Spring Creek, as the stream was then called, was the first to be established away from Great Salt Lake City itself.
As soon as John D. Holladay was named the Branch President, the village took upon itself the name of Holladay’s Settlement or Holladay’s Burgh.
In February 0f 1849 the first surveyed plots of land were issued to the settlers.
Original Land Owners
Lot #1 John D. Holladay
Lot #2 Allen F. Smithson
Lot #3 Robert D. Covington
Lot #4 John D. Holladay
Lot #5 Robert D. Covington
Lot #6 Orlando F. Mead
Lot #7 Robert D. Covington
Lot #8 John Lockhart
Lot #9 John Lockhart
Lot #10 John D. Holladay
Lot #11 Lyman Stephens
Lot #12 Joseph Matthews
Lot #13 Ezekiel Lee
Lot # 14 Milo Andrus
Lot #15 Daniel W. Perkins
Lot #16 William Casto
Lot #17 William Watkins
Lot #18 William Whitehead
Map and information courtesy of Daughters of Utah Pioneers and Steven L. Carr
This historic marker is #65 of the SUP Markers on this page and #1 of the Historical Walking Tour of Holladay on this page.
05 Sunday Nov 2017
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On July 29, 1847 a group of Mormon pioneers (members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) known as the Mississippi Company, among them John Holladay of Alabama, entered the Salt Lake Valley. Within weeks after their arrival, they discovered a free-flowing, spring-fed stream, which they called Spring Creek (near what is now Kentucky Avenue). While most of the group returned to the main settlement in Great Salt Lake for the winter, two or three men built dugouts along this stream and wintered over. Thus, this became the first village established away from Great Salt Lake City itself. In the spring, a number of families hurried out to build homes and tame the land. There were numerous springs and ponds here and grasses and wild flowers were abundant, making this a most desirable area for settlement.
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08 Saturday Oct 2016
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The Old Brinton Ward
The original portion of the ward house at this location was completed in 1914, for the members of the newly-formed Brinton Ward. The land was donated by Ensign Woodruff, son of the fourth president of the Church, Wilford Woodruff. Prior to meeting here, members of the first ward, formed in 1911, met in the original Oakwood School building, immediately north on Highland Drive. A peach orchard, intended for the church Welfare System, and a granary, for the use of the neighbors and ward members, once occupied this site adnacent to the chapel.
In the summer of 1997, the Cottonwood First and Fifth Wards, then occupying these premises, built this recreation center to commemorate the celebration of the sesquicentennial year of the Mormon Pioneers’ entrance into the Salt Lake Valley. A millstone was chosen as the centerpiece of this monument, a fitting symbol of pioneer self-reliance and industry to honor the memory and heritage of the Brinton Ward.
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
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
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
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 :
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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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.
