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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15DV_mountain-meadows-massacre_Veyo-UT.html
Massacre of Men and BoysOn September 11, 1857, a procession of Arkansas emigrants bound for California marched northward up this valley having been persuaded to leave their beseiged camp by Mormon militiamen, bearing a white flag, who falsely prom…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14PR_they-were-poor-hungry-and-they-built-to-last_Leeds-UT.html
The era of the "Great Depression" began with the crash of the stock market in 1929. The economy of the United States changed dramatically. Americans were in peril; unprecedented numbers were jobless. President Franklin D. Roosevelt took office in …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14IX_from-schoolhouse-to-town-hall_Hurricane-UT.html
The building to your left was originally built as a schoolhouse in 1880 in nearby Silver Reef. It also served in the mining boomtown as a place for community dances and other gatherings. Soon after the schoolhouse was built, Silver Reef began t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14IW_a-tale-of-three-towns_Hurricane-UT.html
The history of three towns - Harrisburg, Silver Reef, and Leeds - is intricately connected. Harrisburg and Silver Reef are ghost towns today, while Leeds persists. Like many locations in the arid west, water and its availability and accessibility …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14IV_wells-fargo-and-company-express-building_Leeds-UT.html
Built in 1877Architect unknownUsed by Wells Fargo Company and by St. George merchants, Woolley, Lund and Judd.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14IU_mile-long-main-street_Leeds-UT.html
Between 1875 and the end of 1876, Silver Reef boomed with development, going from a boulder-strewn flat to a town of 1,500 people, one of the largest in Washington county. Silver Reef soon became the center of permanent development, and many stone…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14IT_civilian-conservation-corps-leeds-utah_Leeds-UT.html
The Leeds CCC camp opened in October 1933 under the direction of the Dixie National Forest Service on the site of an existing ranger station. Leeds, a town of less than 200, more than doubled with the opening of the camp. Two hundred young men fro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14IH_harrisburg-harrisburg-residents_Hurricane-UT.html
Harrisburg The town of Harrisburg was founded by Moses Harris in 1859. By 1868, twenty-five families had made their homes in this little valley along Quail Creek, located three miles south of Leeds and twelve miles northeast of St. George. The tow…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14I3_st-johns-church-bishop-lawrence-j-scanlan_Leeds-UT.html
St. John's Church After his 1877 visit to Silver Reef, Father Scanlan appointed Father Dennis Kiely as the local pastor. The increasing Catholic population continued to ask for a church. Father Scanlan returned in November 1878 to accomplish th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14H3_robert-d-covington-house_Hurricane-UT.html
This house was built c. 1859 for Robert D. Covington, leader of the Mormon colonizing group sent from Salt Lake City to establish a cotton industry in this warm region of the Utah Territory. The native sandstone building material was quarried 1/4 …
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