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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTNX_temple-stone-quarry_Sandy-UT.html
Stones for the walls of the Salt Lake Temple of the LDS Church came from this area. As construction began on the temple, Church authorities selected the rock in this canyon as the "best material that can be furnished in the mountains of North Amer…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTNT_temple-granite-quarry_Sandy-UT.html
The granite used in the construction of the Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City was quarried from a large field of huge boulders covering this area broken by nature's forces from adjacent cliffs.
The quarrying of these boulders was begun about 1862…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP22_granite-settlement_Sandy-UT.html
In the 1860's, a town named Granite was located at the mouth of Little Cottonwood Canyon by ore miners of Alta, Silverton, and Tannersville. Its desertion began as the mines closed about 1882. the surrounding country had been settled by Latter-day…