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Payson Second Ward Chapel
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Provo’s Liberty Bell
This ship’s bell is from the valiant USS Wasatch, flagship of the seventh fleet under Admiral Thomas C Kincaid. The ship is famous for its outstanding service in the south pacific during World War II.
Official Navy records state that during the battle of Leyte, “Admiral Kincaid’s flagship was the hub around which the sea, land, and air campaign raged.”
Through the efforts of U.S. Senator Wallace F Bennett, the ship’s bell was obtained for the Provo July Forth Celebration, Inc., a civic group which organized Provo’s Independence Day activities from 1939 to 1952.
As a patriotic monument, the bell was presented by this group for the people of Provo and the Wasatch Front on July 4, 1972.
Located outside the city building at 351 West Center Street in Provo, Utah
Dedicated to all Veterans of War
Provo City, Utah
“That all men shall be free”
“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
Staff, Flag & Dedication presented by
Provo Lodge No. 849 – B.P.O. Elks
Meditation area and installation by Veterans Memorial Board of Provo
June 14, 1972.
21 Monday Feb 2022
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Spring Plowing
Mormon pioneers arrived at Spanish Fork in 1850 with Enoch Reece claiming 400 acres in the river bottoms two miles west of the current town, building the first house and starting the first business of raising cattle. In the winter of 1850-51, a few families settled along the Spanish Fork River in dugout homes in the high riverbank. By the end of 1852 the population along the river had grown to over 100 families. In 1854, Fort Saint Luke was built on the present site of Spanish Fork. In January, 1855, the area of Spanish Fork was incorporated. Soon after Icelandic immigrants established the first permanent Icelandic settlement in the United States. The town continued to grow to over 1,000 to 1860. The main prosperity of the area was agricultural crops and livestock, followed by saw and flour mills. These hardy pioneers dug an irrigation system to farm the rich soil along the Spanish Fork River for their orchards and fields. Their efforts were the foundation of the continuing prosperity Spanish Fork enjoys today.
This monument is located in the Canyon Creek Shopping center in Spanish Fork, Utah
18 Friday Feb 2022
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The Morgan Hughes Home. The address was 190 N 200 W but is now 195 West 200 North in Spanish Fork, Utah
It was built in 1856 and is the oldest adobe home in Spanish Fork, Morgan was born in Wales and moved to Palmyra, Utah in 1851 and to this home in Spanish Fork in 1856.
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This 1892 home was the residence of John H. Lee and his wife Emma Kelsey Lee, located at 597 North 300 West in Mapleton, Utah.
This home was also used as a filming location for the 2001 movie “Brigham City.”
16 Thursday Dec 2021
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A good example of the Victorian Eclectic with Romanesque sandstone elements in Payson. Built in 1904, it is on a large parcel of that includes a granary built in 1900 of the same brick.
59 East 400 North in Payson, Utah
16 Thursday Dec 2021
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Built in 1857, the first home built outside the fort.
William and Grace Wignall immigrated to Utah in 1856. After a few months of living in the Payson fort, Grace told William “if he didn’t build her a home by March she would take the children and go back to England.” Her adobe home at 389 N. 100 East, completed in 1857, is oldest surviving residence within the boundaries of the historic district.
389 North 100 East in Payson, Utah
15 Wednesday Dec 2021
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Built in 11857, the William Winall house is one of the two oldest homes in Payson, the other being the Orwell Simons Home,
298 North 100 East in Payson, Utah
21 Tuesday Sep 2021
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The Spanish Fork Pioneer Heritage Cemetery
Utah South Company Daughters of Utah Pioneers, in conjunction with the City of Spanish Fork, community donors, and volunteers have reclaimed and restored this hallowed ground in remembrance of the pioneers who persevered through uncommon hardships because they had faith in their God and in their cause.
The pioneers chose this bluff overlooking the river as their sacred burial ground. We reverence the lives of these stalwart settlers who came into a barren land and built on a foundation of faith. Settling a community was arduous, backbreaking work that required unity. They lived in wagon boxes, tents, and dugouts along the river bank. They plowed, sowed crops, herded cattle, irrigated, and built roads and bridges. These pioneers were dependent upon one another for their very survival. When death occurred, they mourned together.
The first settlers arrived in 1850. Their life and death struggles while facing hunger, hostile natives, disease, grasshoppers, and crop failure are heroic and heartrending. Spanish Fork City was chartered, then surveyed in 1855 by Stake President James Chauncey Snow under the direction of George A. Smith, first counselor to LDS Church President Brigham Young. Spanish Fork combined the “upper” and “lower” settlements. The settlers’ lives, deeds, and devotion to the establishment of this community write a powerful chapter in the chronicles of Spanish Fork’s early history. Their valiant examples of strength and courage have left a legacy to be treasured. May this sacred and hallowed ground be a place of rest, reflection, and reverence.
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