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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM148C_the-hardy-house_St-George-UT.html
Built by Augustus Poore Hardy in 1871, this house, with classical Dixie dormers, has quite a history. Hardy was sheriff of St. George and was holding a man accused of murder. An armed group of vigilantes broke into the house and forced the keys fr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM148A_erastus-snows-big-house_St-George-UT.html
On this site in 1867, Erastus Snow began construction on a four-story, adobe home which later became known as the "Big House." Snow, an LDS apostle, was the presiding Mormon leader during the colonization of St. George. The "Big House" was an unco…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1486_brigham-young-home_St-George-UT.html
Brigham Young was prophet and president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for 30 years. During those three decades he directed the establishment of more than three hundred communities throughout the American West. It was "Brother …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1483_pioneer-washington-county-courthouse_St-George-UT.html
St. George was designated as the county seat on January 14, 1883. This building was begun in 1866 and completed in 1876. It served the county government as offices. The 18-inch thick walls housed the jail in the basement and school was held upstai…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1481_pioneer-museum_St-George-UT.html
This red brick building completed in 1938 was financed by Mrs. Hortense McQuarrie Odlum to house pioneer relics. The addition was financed by Ferol McQuarrie Kincade in 1985. Daughters of Utah Pioneers volunteer their services as docents for the M…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM147Z_the-jones-adobe-home_St-George-UT.html
Dedicated to memory ofClarence Amos Jones & Madaline Empey Jones.Donated by their children Boyd Grant Jones and Sylvia Jones Chamberlain,Wayne Hyrum Jonesto the Washington County Historical Society.
This one room home, with a partition, was mov…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM147Y_utah-idaho-sugar-company_St-George-UT.html
The Utah-Idaho Sugar Company after determining that sugar beet seed was a good cash crop, bought these grounds and started production that would last for nearly fifty years.
Sugar beets were planted in the fall in the Bloomington and Washington…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM147F_the-burgess-house_St-George-UT.html
The house was built in 1916 by Joe Burgess. He hauled lava rock from the nearby black hill for the foundation stones and constructed the home out of formed cement blocks made by lime canfield. These formed cement blocks became popular in the early…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1470_brigham-young-winter-home_St-George-UT.html
The original portion of this home was begun in 1860 and completed in 1871. When Brigham Young purchased it he added the front addition which was completed in 1873. It served as his winter home from that time until his death in 1877.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM146N_erastus-fairbanks-snow_St-George-UT.html
Missionary, Founder of St. George, President of the Cotton Mission.
Erastus Snow was born in St. Johnsbury, Vermont in 1818. He entered the Salt Lake Valley on July 21, 1847, in advance of the fist company of Mormon Pioneers. He was ordained an…