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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/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 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14BO_pioneer-gratitude_Hurricane-UT.html
When Claron Bradshaw was asked by the Heritage Park Foundation Committee if he would sponsor the expense of casting the "Pioneer Gratitude" statue in bronze and placing it on the monument in the park, he responded -"I Appreciate My Dixie PioneerHe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14BN_survival-in-utahs-dixie_Hurricane-UT.html
The warm comfortable productive climate in the sheltered valleys along the meandering Rio Virgin and its lower tributaries in Washington County became known as "Utah's Dixie".The rugged pioneer colonizers and their descendants are known as "Dixiei…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14BL_hurricane-canal_Hurricane-UT.html
The construction of the Hurricane Canal is one of Utah's proudest stories of pioneer determination. This canal, built completely by hand, opened the Hurricane Bench to farming and the establishment of the town of Hurricane.In 1893 two local men, J…