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Brigadoon Park in West Jordan, one of West Jordan’s Parks.
Brigadoon Park
14 Wednesday Dec 2016
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Pioneer Crossing Bridge and the Moesser – Rushton Granary
03 Monday Oct 2016
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Pioneer Crossing Bridge
Erected 2013 – This bridge commemorates the area where the first pioneers crossed the Jordan River to settle the West side of the Salt lake Valley. In November 1848, the family of Joseph and Susannah Harker were the first “over Jordan” and built a log home near 3300 South and 1400 West.
On January 9, 1849, the families of Thomas MacKay, John Bennion, Samuel Bennion, Thomas Tarbet, William Blackhurt, William Farrer, John Robinson and James Taylor crossed the Jordan River on the ice and built dugouts and cabins in this area.
Other settlers followed these first pioneer, resulting in many prosperous communities West of the Jordan River. Pioneer Crossing Bridge honors these first families and all others who have sought a brighter future by making their home on the Salt Lake Valley’s West side.
Moesser – Rushton Granary
Erected c1878 in Hunter, Preserved 2014 – As pioneers and homesteaders moved West across the Salt Lake Valley they prospered in developing farming communities. Harvested lumber from Bingham, Harker and Coon Canyons in the Oquirrh Mountains was used by settlers to build area homes, barns and granaries.
Pioneer Joseph Hyrum Moesser constructed this granary near his adobe brick house in c1878 at approximately 4450 South 5400 West in Hunter. Newly wed Alma E Rushton acquired this granary and surrounding farm in 1917. Merging it into the Rushton homestead across the street. This historic granary was in use for over 100 years of agricultural production and is perhaps the oldest building in West Valley City today. It commemorates all those that seek to build and shape their community into a better place.
South Jordan, Utah
13 Saturday Aug 2016
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On July 22, 1847, an advanced party of the first Mormon pioneers entered the valley and immediately began to irrigate land and explore the area with a view to establishing new settlements. Alexander Beckstead, a blacksmith from Ontario, Canada, moved his family to the West Jordan area in 1849, and became the first of his trade in the south Salt Lake Valley. He helped dig the first ditch to divert water from the Jordan River, powering Archibald Gardner‘s flour mill. In 1859, Beckstead became the first settler of South Jordan by moving his family along the Jordan River where they lived in a dugout cut into the west bluffs above the river. The flood plain of the Jordan was level, and could be cleared for farming if a ditch was constructed to divert river water along the base of the west bluff. Beckstead and others created the 2.5-mile  “Beckstead Ditch”, parts of which are still in use as of 2010.
South Jordan Posts:
- 1938 School Bus / Train Accident
- Birthplace of South Jordan
- Daybreak
- Jordan River Utah Temple
- Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple
- Parks in South Jordan
- South Jordan Cemetery
- South Jordan Settlement
- South Jordan Veteran’s Memorial
- Other places in South Jordan, sorted by address.
West Jordan, Utah
21 Tuesday Jun 2016
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West Jordan Posts:
- Broom Factory and Wagon Train Terminal
- Salt Lake and Utah Railroad
- Utah Idaho Sugar Company Factory
- Welby
- West Jordan DUP Marker
- West Jordan Museum at Veterans Memorial Park
- West Jordan Parks
- West Jordan Pioneer Church
- Wight’s Fort Cemetery
- West Jordan posts sorted by address
West Jordan received its name from Mormon settlers who entered the Salt Lake Valley in 1847 under the leadership of their prophet, Brigham Young. These first European-Americans thought of the area to be their Zion, or Holy Land, and thus named the river flowing west of their first settlement, Salt Lake City, the Western Jordan, a reference to the River Jordan in Israel. The name was later simplified to “Jordan River”. Like its Middle Eastern namesake, the Jordan River flows from a fresh water lake (Utah Lake) to an inland salt sea (Great Salt Lake). West Jordan was founded around 1849 on the western banks of the Jordan River.
One of the first sawmills in the area was built in 1850 in the city by Archibald Gardner. Gardner was a devout Mormon whose legacy can still be seen in modern West Jordan. His collection of mills and houses, now historic, have been renovated into a specialty shopping district known as Gardner Village.
Early West Jordan relied primarily on agriculture, mills, and mining activity to form the base of its economy. The first leather tannery west of the Mississippi River was constructed in the city in 1851.
Welby
06 Friday Jun 2014
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Garfield Beach railroad junction was built in 1905. In 1908, its post office was named Welby in honor of Rio Grande Railroad superintendent. The R.G.R.R. company drilled water wells, built soft water treatment plant, a round house, dance hall, pool hall, hotel, grocery and mercantile store, over 200 homes, and a three room schoolhouse. The first teachers were Ann Phoenix, Bernice Nelson, and Miss Johnson. Harold Nielson was doctor. The railroad company lost its contract and Welby began to fade. The store and school were razed in 1948.
The old railroad roundhouse, at least the foundation for it is still visible just north of here at N 40.59291 W 111.99436.
West Jordan Pioneer Church
05 Thursday Jun 2014
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In 1859, to replace a log church house, Bishop Archibald Gardner chose Elias Morris as architect of this red sandstone and granite church. On May 15, 1861, the cornerstone was laid. Proceeds from a military ball, attended by L.D.S. Authorities including Brigham Young, Fort Douglas officers and others, completed the $10,000 building. Dedicated Aug. 11, 1867 by Wilford Woodruff. Leased and restored by Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1937.
This marker is located next to DUP #79.
Check out all of the historic markers placed by the Daughters of Utah Pioneers at JacobBarlow. com/dup
West Jordan
23 Friday May 2014
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In 1848 Samuel Egbert, Horace Ensign and Thomas Butterfield and families settled here. In 1849-1850 the settlers built the first canal from the Jordan River, In 1851 Samuel Mulliner tanned the first leather, in 1851 Matthew Gaunt build the first woolen mill in the west, In 1863 General Patrick E. Conner organized the first mining company. The Jordan Smelter was built in 1870 by J. W. Kerr and Isadore Morris. Archibald and Robert Gardner built a saw mill and later a grist mill.
This marker is located next to DUP #332.
Check out all of the historic markers placed by the Daughters of Utah Pioneers at JacobBarlow. com/dup
Taylorsville, Utah
06 Wednesday Nov 2013
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Taylorsville, Utah is made up of the historic communities Taylorsville, Bennion, and Kearns. Former names of Taylorsville are “Over Jordan” and “North Jordan.”
Historic Buildings in Taylorsville:
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Other Taylorsville Related posts:
- 1900 Baptismal Site
- Archibald Gardner Mill
- Bennion Ward Memorial
- English Fort
- Freedom Shrine
- Jordan River Trail
- Millrace
- The Old School House
- Taylorsville Bennion Heritage Center
- Taylorsville Cemetery
- Taylorsville Parks
- Tribute to Taylorsville-Bennion Pioneers
- Taylorsville sorted by address
