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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14FH_ellen-nellie-purcell-unthank_Cedar-City-UT.html
Ellen (Nellie) Purcell was born November 6, 1846 in Tintwhistle, England. At 9 she, with her parents and sister Margaret (Maggie), 14, began the trek from Iowa to Salt Lake Valley in 1856 with the Edward Martin Handcart Company.Early snows overtoo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14FG_the-founding-of-southern-utah-university_Cedar-City-UT.html
There are five plaques across the base of the statue
In the annals of American higher education, there is no more dramatic founding of a school than that accorded Southern Utah University, nor a more striking example of the extent of the commi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14FF_fort-cedar_Cedar-City-UT.html
In November 1851, thirty-five men from Parowan settled Cedar City. A unique temporary encampment, composed of their wagon boxes and sage brush walls, sheltered them through the first winter. In 1853, a fort 100 rods square was built on this site. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14FE_the-casting-of-the-lots_Cedar-City-UT.html
On July 29, 1776, Fathers Francisco Atanasio Dominguez and Silvestre Velez de Escalante led an exploration party of ten horsemen from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to establish an overland route to Monterey, California, while spreading the Catholic faith …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14FD_hamilton-fort_Cedar-City-UT.html
In 1852 Peter Shirts located a ranch on Sidon Creek, later known as Shirts Creek. He offered John Hamilton half the water to come and settle there. Hamilton came with his family and Peter Fife. When Walker Indian War broke out they moved to Cedar …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14EB_fort-kanarra_Cedar-City-UT.html
Old Kanarra, as it was called by early inhabitants, was founded in the spring of 1861 by settlers who moved from Fort Harmony. The town was situated on Kanarra Creek about one mile north and east of the present location. Later, a group from Toquer…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9M_escalante-trail_Cedar-City-UT.html
Father Silvestre Velez de Escalante with Father Dominguez and eight others, first white men to enter the Great Basin, left Santa Fe July 29, 1776 in attempt to reach Monterey. Abandoning attempt, party passed through Cedar Valley October 12 on ret…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8F_south-rim-of-the-great-basin_Cedar-City-UT.html
The low ridge at the south end of this valley forms the south rim of the Great Basin, which in prehistoric times was the bed of a vast body of water now referred to as Lake Bonneville. It was so named in honor of Captain Benjamin L. E. Bonneville,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8E_old-brickyards_Cedar-City-UT.html
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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6L_deseret-iron-works_Cedar-City-UT.html
This monument marks the spot where on Sept. 30, 1852 the first iron was manufactured west of the Mississippi River by the Mormon Iron Missionaries sent by Brigham Young.
This 5½ ton ore body was obtained from the iron deposits used by iro…