13 Thursday Sep 2018
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Coal Creek Gold Medal Mile
One of the Gold Medal Miles is located here in Veterans Park in Cedar City. For others on the list visit this page.
13 Thursday Sep 2018
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13 Thursday Sep 2018
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Cedar City, Iron County, Memorials, Parks, utah, War, War Memorials
13 Thursday Sep 2018
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A list of the Parks in Cedar City.
12 Sunday Aug 2018
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Cedar City, Historic Markers, Iron County, Mills, NRHP, SUP, utah
The Old Mill
S.U.P. Marker # 8, located at the mouth of Cedar Canyon in Cedar City. For other SUP Markers visit this page.
On this site, in 1876, the Cedar Co-operative Mercantile and Manufacturing Institution constructed the Cedar Co-op Mill. It was a large, three-story wooden building. The original two sets of four foot grinding stones were turned by water which was brought in a ditch from Coal Creek to the South and East. This mill ground the flour, cereal and livestock food for much of Iron County. In 1900 the grinding stones were replaced by a set of rollers. The Mill was changed to a plaster mill in 1914 and operated until 1945. In 1952 the building was torn down and the property sold to Cedar City. For many years this mill was a hub of activity in this valley.
10 Friday Aug 2018
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Brickyards, Cedar City, Historic Markers, Iron County, Kilns, utah
Old Brickyards
This historic marker, located in Cedar City reads:
It is believed that the first fired bricks in Utah were made in Cedar City in connection with the attempt of the Deseret Iron Company to manufacture iron in 1852. The blast furnace was located in the vicinity of 400 North 100 East. Fired brick was made near there for use in the lining of the blast furnace and construction of some brick homes and some public buildings.
By the turn of the century, most of the brickmaking operations had moved to the southern outskirts of the city. These were located here, immediately north, northeast, east and southeast of this monument. They supplied the brick for homes, commercial and public buildings for Cedar City and some surrounding areas until well into the 1930s. The Old Administration Building and the Old Main Building of the Southern Utah University campus, several blocks from here, were constructed from brick made in this immediate area. This monument stands on part of one of these brickyards, and includes some of the original brick made here. It is a memorial to the various brick makers including Bryant, Fretwell, Dutton, Rollo, Jackman, Palmer and others unrecorded and those who worked for them.
05 Thursday Apr 2018
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Paragonah Fort
Paragonah was founded in 1852. Indian troubles caused its abandonment a year later until 1855 when the Pioneer Fort was built. The site was selected and dedicated by President Brigham Young. The Fort was 105 feet square with walls 3 feet thick at the base. A second story was added in 1857. A large room served as Church, School and Amusement Hall. Homes were built around the inside of the wall. The public square includes the site of the Fort, which was torn down in 1879.
05 Thursday Apr 2018
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Paragonah Town Square
This area, a part of the Great Basin, has evolved from the time of Lake Bonneville. It has known Anasazi Indian civilizations as evidenced by nearby ruins. It has seen the Dominguez-Escalante expedition of 1776 which passed west of this valley. It has hosted explorers and traders on the Old Spanish Trail which came through Bear Valley and entered the Parowan Valley at Little Creek. It knew the Jedediah S. Smith expedition in 1826. Even Parley P. Pratt and his company explored here in 1849 to search for sites for Mormon colonization.
Apostle George A. Smith led an expedition and colonized what is now Parowan in the year 1851. That spring, 40 acres were cultivated near Black Rock, south of town. In 1852 others joined the farming venture, building rude huts for shelter at “Red Creek,” as it was originally named. In 1853 the settlement was abandoned due to Indian skirmishes, and was not resettled until 1855 when a fort was erected.
The town’s name was originally spelled “Paragoonah,” an Indian word meaning “many watering holes.” Artesian wells dotted the landscape, which today have been replaced by gravity-flow sprinkling systems that provide water to the abundant stands of alfalfa.
This Centennial year of 1996 finds a peaceful community with a spirit of unity, freedom from density of population, clear spring water, and clean air. Nearby canyons provide ample opportunities for fishing, hunting, and other recreation. Old homes and barns, the Black Rock Cave, and Anasazi remnants make it historically unique. Today, the proud community honors its past and future in the Town/Church square at this spot.
02 Tuesday May 2017
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Three historic markers located off exit 100 of I-15 in Southern Utah:
John Christopher Armstrong
1813 –
This monument is a memorial to the dedication and perseverance of John C. Armstrong and to all the brave men, see reverse side, who explored this area under the direction of Parley P. Pratt since a burial spot is not known this will serve as a burial monument for him. He arrived in the Salt Lake Valley Sept. 1847 and settled his family in a mud dugout. As a skilled tailor he applied his trade for many including Brigham Young. He played in Captain Ballou’s Brass Band and accepted the call to join Pratt’s exploration party as bugler and explorer. Later he was called to defend Fort Bridger against Indians on the war path. He carved his name on a sandstone cliff east from this marker up Fremont Canyon on December 21, 1849. The carving, as depicted on this monument is still plainly visible on the rock in the canyon. His journal tells of the sacrifice, hardships and near tragedy endured by these explorers.
“Sunday, 9th, This night one of the coldest… both feet froze.”
“Thursday 13th, I walked as well as I could blew the trumpet for prayers… rubbed my limbs all the time trembling with cold my teeth chattering in my head. Truly I thought about home and a good bed.”
“Friday 21st… We have fought with the storm and the tempest and it must have been through the divine interposition of God, who led Nephi of old that we were brouhgt over these mountains. To look at them it would be said that no white man could do it or be rash enough to undertake it… The Mormons are the boys for such expeditions they fear neither kanyon, mountain, snow storm, gully or river because they know that they are led by The Mighty God of Jacob.”
– Reverse side of marker –
Parley P. Pratt received a commission from Brigham Young the governor of the State of Deseret to raise fifty men with the necessary teams and outfit on an exploring tour to the southward.
First Ten
Isaac C. Haight, Captain. Parley P. Pratt, President. William Wadsworth, Hial K. Gay, Rufus Allen, Chauncey West, Dan Jones, George B. Mabson, Samuel Gould, Wm. P. Vance.
Second Ten
Joseph Matthews, Captain. John Brown, Nathan Tanner, Sterling G. Driggs, Homer Duncan, Wm. Matthews, Schuyler Jennings, John H. Bankhead, John D. Holiday, Robert M. Smith.
Third Ten
Joseph Horn, Captain. David Fulmer, Counselor. Wm. Brown, George Nebiker, Benjamin F. Stewart, Alexander Wright, Alexander Lemon, Seth B. Tanner, Henry Heath, James Farrer.
Fourth Ten
Ephraim Green, Captain. Wm. W. Phelps, Counselor. Robert Campbell, Clerk. Charles Hopkins, Sidney Willis, Andrew Blodgett, Wm. Henry, Peter Dustin, Thomas Ricks, Isaac H. Brown.
Fifth Ten
Josiah Arnold, Captain. Jonathan Packer, Christopher Williams, Stephen Taylor, Isaac B. Hatch, John C. Armstrong, Dimick B. Huntington.
Manti Group
Madison Hambleton, Gardner G. Potter, John Lowry, Jr., Edward Everett, Sylvester Hewlitt.
02 Tuesday May 2017
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Three historic markers located off exit 100 of I-15 in Southern Utah:
The Old Spanish Trail
Traders, trappers and adventurers carved out the route known as the Old Spanish Trail. New Mexican traders on their way to California in the early 1800’s left behind many Spanish place names.
The 49’ers traveled here during the gold rush into California. One of the companies, lead by Jefferson Hunt traveled from Salt Lake City arriving here on October 27, 1849. Impatient and quarrelsome the company broke up near Enterprise, Utah. Some followed the Old Spanish Trail to California other drove southwesterly through remote desert regions and gave Death Valley its name.
John C. Fremont, an Army Topographer and explorer also came this way with a party in 1853-54 seeking a railroad route. The party almost perished before Fremont got provisions from Parowan, Utah. Fremont Canyon to the east bears his name.
