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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14DR_southern-exploring-company-1849_Hurricane-UT.html
The confluence of Ash and LaVerkin Creeks with the Virgin River is important in the history of this region. Footsteps long forgotten have passed through this region. Some have been remembered but most have faded with time. Roaming bands of Indians…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14DQ_look-out-point_Hurricane-UT.html
With the settlement of Toquerville in 1858 by the first six families and others soon to join them, they soon realized that the pressures on the available irrigated farmland could not support the increasing population. Survival would depend on graz…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14DD_hurricane-canal_Hurricane-UT.html
We give love and honor to the memory of the men who built our Hurricane Canal; and the ditch riders who cared for it. These pioneers were men of integrity who had a dream, an improbable dream. They built the canal high on a hill, sometimes through…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14CR_heritage-home-pioneer-corner_Hurricane-UT.html
Original Home of Ira E. and Marion Hinton BradshawBuilt 1906-08(Placed on the National Register of Historic Places - 1991)
This plain carpenters' Victorian eclectic style home, with a cross-wing and stone foundation and cellar was the first pe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14CQ_hurricane-pioneers_Hurricane-UT.html
In 1863 settlers of the upper Virgin River whose lands were being washed away made preliminary surveys for irrigating and occupying these lands. Erastus Snow, David H.Cannon and Nephi Johnson came down the hill over an old Indian trail, with a hea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14CP_smith-mesa_Hurricane-UT.html
Smith Mesa, northeast of Hurricane and nearly one-half mile higher in elevation, was named after Charles Nephi Smith, Bishop of Rockville from 1867 to 1891. He had a ranch house on Smith Creek and ran his cattle on this beautiful mesa. Shortly aft…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14CO_early-day-wood-beam-walking-hand-plow_Hurricane-UT.html
This plow was donated to the museum by Mr. and Mrs. Leslie E. Nelson, of Hurricane,Utah. History of the plow is from Mr. Nelson's grandmother, Hulda Ellertson Kay, who was housekeeper for Apostle Hyde during the period of 1875. The Nelson family o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14BV_the-town-named-after-a-buggy-incident_Hurricane-UT.html
Buggies, such as the one before you, were an important part of early America. As the name implies, Doctors' Buggies were used by physicians but they were also a popular choice for many others as well. Buggies were dearly prized and generally kept …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14BR_many-came-by-handcart_Hurricane-UT.html
Between June 9, 1856, and July 6, 1860, ten separate Handcart Companies left IowaCity, Iowa, or Florence, Nebraska to their land of Zion in the Utah Territory. There were653 handcarts and 50 wagons.Nearly 3,000 souls, some with babes in arms, and …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14BP_historic-kolob-mountain_Hurricane-UT.html
Kolobby Owen SandersWhen lassitude tugs at your bodyand robs you of zest to existcome with me to Koloband walk through the mild morning mist
Huddle at dawn on a hillsideand scan the green valley below;Listen to snapping and crackle of twigsand …