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The First Statewide Pioneer Day Celebration

03 Friday Jan 2020

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The First Statewide Pioneer Day Celebration Was held in this Basin July 23-24, 1857

Headed by Brigham Young, the company reaching here July 23d numbered 2,587 persons, with 464 carriages & wagons, 1,028 horses & mules, and 332 oxen & cows.

A program of addresses, six brass bands, singing, athletic events, drills by six companies of militia, and dancing, was punctuated by salutes from a brass howitzer. U. S. flags were flown from two highest peaks and two highest trees, the flag tree in front of Brigham Young’s campsite being 70 feet N. W. of here. At noon July 24, Judson Stoddard and A. O. Smoot, 20 days from the States, with Elias Smith and O. P. Rockwell, arrived with news of the advance of Johnston’s army against the “Mormons”. The company returned in orderly formation on July 25th.

UPTLA Marker #14 in Brighton, Utah

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Memories at Mountain Dell

01 Tuesday Nov 2016

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Memories at Mountain Dell


From the summit of Big Mountain, the pioneers had their first glimpse of the Salt Lake Valley. The natural gorge, which rests south of Big Mountain and the northwest slopes of Little Mountain was known as Hanks or Big Canyon Creek and named by Ephraim Hanks as Mountain Dell.

As one of the handcart companies approached the bottom of Big Mountain, food and supplies were low. As they approached the Pony Express Station, Isabelle Siddoway, an eleven-year-old girl in the company, asked the station keeper if she could have a potato growing in the ground. Isabelle said it was the most delicious thing she had ever eaten.

Francis Armstrong purchased the property at Mountain Dell in 1870 and gave it to his wife, Isabelle Siddoway Armstrong. Mountain Dell was use as a summer farm by the Armstrong family. In 1882 Francis built a stone farmhouse; the farmhouse stood until July 1999 when it was torn down.
Francis kept two racehorses, Chief and Scout. He also raised peacocks at the farm. Francis loved to race the train down Parley’s Canyon on one of his horses. He would jump the track just in front of the train. As the train went by, the conductor would shake his fist at Francis.

One day the conductor appeared at a meeting in the Mayor’s Office, complaining of some fool who was always trying to race the train down Parley’s Canyon. After listening to the man’s complaint, Mayor Armstrong spoke up and said, “Well, sir, I am that fool. I have enough confidence in myself and my horse to know that I am in no danger.”

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Courthouse and McQuarrie Memorial Museum

10 Monday Oct 2016

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Pioneer – Washington County – Courthouse

St. George was designated as the County Seat on January 14, 1883.   This building was begun in 1866 and completed in 1876.  It served the County government as offices, the 18-inch thick  walls housed the jail in the basement and school was held upstairs during the day and served as a courtroom by night.  Still reflecting days old are the original panes of glass alongside the entrance doors, the chandeliers, security vault, exterior cornice work, roof cupola dome and original murals of Zion and Grand Canyons in upstairs assembly room.

DUP Markers #14 and #298 are here.

The McQuarrie Memorial Museum (DUP Museum) is also here.

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Pioneer Museum –

This red brick building completed in 1938 was financed by Mrs. Horttense McQuarrie Odlum to house pioneer relics.  The addition was financed by Ferol McQuarrie Kincade in 1985.  Daughters of Utah pioneers volunteer their serves as decents for the museum.


Pioneer Village

09 Sunday Oct 2016

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Pioneer Village is an authentic representation of life in Provo before the arrival of the Utah Southern Railroad in 1873. Most of the buildings and artifacts in the Village have come from the surrounding area. The historic structures depict various businesses, public meeting places, homes and outbuildings for animal care.
The existence of this Village is due to the foresight of the George A, Smith Chapter of the Sons of Utah Pioneers, a group of dedicated men who realized the need for preserving the heritage of this area. In 1931, David Loveless donated the John Turner cabin, several outbuildings, and his large collection of artifacts to the local Sons of Utah Pioneers. The city of Provo provided the land on which the Village stands. Since the beginning, the Sons of Utah Pioneers have expanded and improved the Village by adding buildings and artifacts and by repairing and preserving the original donations.
In 2006, the George A. Smith Chapter merged with the Brigham Young Chapter of the Sons of Utah Pioneers, which took over as the official sponsor of the Village. Many visionary men have contributed time and money to the project. Hopefully, all who visit here will appreciate the faith, dedication, and determination of the pioneers who settled Provo and will desire to contribute to its preservation.
Note: This Village represents early Provo, a frontier community existing mostly in isolation. The pioneers’ very survival depended on their own skills and the support of their neighbors and friends. What they ate, they grew; what they wore, they made; and what they needed, they manufactured or they did without. Things were used and reused; little was discarded or thrown away.

The south part of the Village represents the residential community; their homes, garden, orchard, granary, corncrib, corral and loafing shed. The northeast part of the Village has the commercial enterprises including the blacksmith shop, cooper shop, wood shop, ox shoeing stock, store and grain mill (represented by the mill stones resting against the store). The northwest section of the Village has the school and town square.

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Lorin Farr

20 Wednesday Jul 2016

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Lorin Farr, Utah pioneer of 1847, one of the founders of Ogden. Established Farr’s Fort in 1850. Assisted in laying out the city and organized its first Government. In 1851, he became the first Mayor, serving twenty-two years. Twenty years without pay. The deed to Ogden was made by Ulysses S. Grant, President of the United State, to Lorin Farr, as Mayor.

He built Weber County’s first sawmill and grist-mill (1850) and with others built the first woolen factory in Northern Utah (1868). In 1857, with Newton Goodall and others, he built the first road through Ogden Canyon. Under his direction Weber County was surveyed and irrigation canals and roads were built. He as a leading contractor on the Central Pacific Railroad west from Ogden to Promontory.

Lorin Farr, Civic and religious leader, staunch friend and supporter of the Prophet Joseph Smith, assisted in the settlement of Nauvoo, Illinois and in building the temple. He came to Utah wit Brigham Young in 1847 in January 1851 he became the first President of Weber Stake by Zion, serving until 1860. He directed the building of Ogden Tabernacle in 1855-56. He was a member of the first Territorial Legislature for thirty years serving longer than any other member and was a member of the convention that framed the Constitution of the State of Utah.”

This historic marker is #113 in the series of markers by the U.P.T.L.A. which is now part of the series by the S.U.P. and it is located at the Ogden Memorial Plaza at 25th Street and Washington Blvd in Ogden, Utah.

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Bishop David Evans

13 Monday Jun 2016

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Bishop David Evans was a general authority of the church and participated in the School of the Prophets in Kirtland.

The School of the Prophets commenced January 23, 1833, in the Newel K. Whitney Store in Kirtland. The purpose of the school was to prepare the elders to go into the world and preach the Gospel. That preparation was intellectual, spiritual, and physical, but all of it was intended to purify those men and empower them. So it was that visions and revelations were opened to them. Including a particular revelation that has become the most famous of the church and even to define its members.

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