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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C9T_fur-trappers-and-traders_Salt-Lake-City-UT.html
Fur trappers and traders were the first white men in this locality. William H. Ashley and men arrived in the spring of 1829.
The principal leaders were
James Bridger - Etienne Provost
Jedediah S. Smith
James Bridger, discoverer of the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BXI_anderson-tower_Salt-Lake-City-UT.html
Anderson Tower was built in 1884 by Robert R. Anderson (1848-1935) a pioneer of 1867, and one of the original settlers on the north bench of Salt Lake City. The tower was patterned after similar towers Mr. Anderson had seen in Scotland as a young …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BVT_dudlers-inn_Salt-Lake-City-UT.html
Perhaps one of the longest living and prominent residents of the area, known as Parley's Hollow, now officially Parley's Historic Nature Park, was Joseph Dudler. About 1864, he settled in this location. Here he built his home. It was two stories, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BVS_dudlers-wine-cellar_Salt-Lake-City-UT.html
Early in 1870, Joseph Dudler, owner and operator of the inn which was on the ground level of his house, built a brewery in back of his house here in Parley's Hollow. To provide for this, in addition to the brewery proper, located on adjacent prope…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BR8_sandstone-wall-aquaduct_Salt-Lake-City-UT.html
Parley's Creek, originally known by the Indian name Obit-Ko-Ke-Che Creek, was the largest stream of water which flowed from the Wasatch Mountains into the valley. This creek had beginnings high in the Wasatch Mountains to the north near what becam…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BL8_dr-ellis-reynolds-shipp-park_Salt-Lake-City-UT.html
When Dr. Ellis Reynolds Shipp graduated from Women's Medical College in Philadelphia with a specialty in obstetrics and diseases of women and children, she returned to Salt Lake City to practice medicine and open her School of Obstetrics and Nursi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1X6E_nauvoo-bell-historical_Salt-Lake-City-UT.html
The Nauvoo Bell originally hung in the temple that Church members built in Nauvoo, Illinois, in the 1840's.
The Saints removed the bell in 1846 when they were forced to leave Illinois because of persecution.
Following instructions from Brigham Y…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1T4B_nelson-wheeler-whipple-house-historical_Salt-Lake-City-UT.html
This substantial two-story house was built in 1854 by Nelson Wheeler Whipple at a cost of approximately $2,000. Whipple was a Mormon immigrant from New York who arrived in Salt Lake City in 1850. During his long career in Utah he worked as a polic…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DQS_daniel-cowan-jackling_Salt-Lake-City-UT.html
World renowned mining and metallurgical engineer, eminent business executive, benefactor and loyal friend of Utah and its people.Guided by an inspired vision, he applied and developed processes for the beneficiation of low grade porphyritic ores a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16NJ_grave-of-brigham-young_Salt-Lake-City-UT.html
Born June 1, 1801, at Whitingham, VermontDied August 29, 1877, at Salt Lake City, UtahBrigham Young, second President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints succeeded Joseph Smith, founder of the Church, who was martyred at Carthage, I…