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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BL5_agriculture_Cottonwood-Heights-UT.html
During their first 20-plus years in the Salt Lake Valley, people who settled this area did so at the mouth of Big Cottonwood Canyon. They depended on the sawmills and later the mines as a means of support. Following the joining of the Transcontine…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BKV_west-jordan-industry_West-Jordan-UT.html
Early settlement centered around the West Jordan Mill built by Archibald and Robert Gardner. They established a saw mill in 1850 and a grist mill in 1854 near the Jordan River at 7800 South. A bridge over the Jordan River was built in 1852-1854. S…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BKU_millrace_Taylorsville-UT.html
In 1855, upon the counsel of Brigham Young, Joseph Harker, with John and Samuel Bennion, hand-dug the lower ditch to irrigate the farmland on the river bottoms west of the Jordan River.
A small rock dam was constructed on the Jordan River at ab…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29VB_john-wesley-powell-on-the-green-river_Moab-UT.html
In May 1869, Major John Wesley Powell set out on a remarkable mission: to explore the uncharted canyons and waters of the Green and Colorado rivers. Powell, a geology professor and one-armed Civil War veteran, began the journey with nine novice oa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25PS_do-religion-and-money-mix_Vernal-UT.html
Diagonally across the street is the First Security Bank building. When it first opened on August 10, 1910, it was called the Uintah State Bank.
The local Mormon population did not like the loan policies of the Catholic-managed Bank of Vernal, wh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25PR_cobble-rock-gas-station_Vernal-UT.html
What is now a vacant lot, located diagonally from you, was in 1930 the premium in elegance and service to the traveler.
The Cobble Rock Gas Station offered friendly service to your road-beaten auto and was touted to be the only women's restroom …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25PP_a-fremont-mystery_Jensen-UT.html
Perhaps a thousand years ago, someone climbed to the cliff face above, a stone tool in hand. Selecting an area of the sandstone darkened by minerals, that person began to chip away at the rock. After hours of chipping and carving, the image of a b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25PO_where-the-dollar-has-more-cents_Vernal-UT.html
Former Pony Express rider and ferryboat operator William Ashton brought his family to Vernal in 1879.
William's sons and grandsons, all of whom engaged in retail trade, consolidated their businesses in 1922, opening Ashton Brothers Mercantile Co…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25PL_shipped-another-12-000-hen-fruit-by-parcel-post_Vernal-UT.html
The first business to occupy the corner across from you was Acorn Mercantile, a leading grocery and dry goods store.
In 1915 Acorn boasted a shipment to Salt Lake City of 12,000 fresh eggs, which provided a solid market for the Ashley Valley pou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25PK_farm-exchange-building_Vernal-UT.html
"They didn't have a lot of money, but they
didn't know that they were poor."
-Rebecca Kunz's (1892-1985) impressions of the Great Depression
Built of concrete because it was considered fire proof, the building across from you has not chan…