Daughters of Utah Pioneers
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July 23, 1847This monument was erected July 23, 1933, and marks the last camp site of the first company of Mormon Pioneers, under the leadership of President Brigham Young, before entering the Salt Lake Valley, July 24, 1847.
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Luelle Atkin McAllisterCouncilwomanBlanche Robinson HamblinCouncilwomanMary E. Wooley ChamberlainMayorTamar Stewart HamblinCouncilwomanAda Pratt SeegmillerCouncilwoman
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John D. Lee settled here in Dec. 1872 and established ferry service thirteen months later. After her husband's death, Warren M. Johnson ran the oar-driven ferry for Emma Lee, 1875 to 1879, when the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints purchased her i…
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In the summer of 1883, William F. Rigby purchased, dismantled and moved by oxen a mill to the new community of Rexburg, establishing the only mill in southern Idaho. The mill was reconstructed on the west side of Third East, between Second and Third North. …
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The Box Elder Cooperative Association was established in 1867 -68 by Lorenzo Snow, under direction of Brigham Young. In 1871 a dairy, said to be the first in Utah, was built south of Beaver Dam, near a cold water spring, Christian Hansen, operator. From 600…
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Concrete shaft located one-half mile west on Bear River marks the site of the Nathan Williams Packer Toll Ferry and Bridge, one of the first on the river. The ferry operated with rope and carried equivalent of one team and wagon. In 1869 a bridge was built …
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Porterville was settled by the members of the Porter Family. Sanford Porter Jr., while on duty as a scout in the winter of 1857-58, rode into a canyon so rocky and difficult to travel that he named it Hardscrabble. Here he found a stream of water and abunda…
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No. 7Dedicatedin commemorationthe heroic sacrifice andhistory-making achievementsof theMormon Battalion"whose march over 2000 milesfrom Council Bluffs, Iowa to San Diegohelp to win California for the Unionand open a new road to the Pacificover desert wastes…
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On this site stoodFort Moore built by theMorman Battalion duringthe War with MexicoThis memorial honors the troops who helped to win the South West.
The Flag of the United States was raised here on July 4th 1847by United States Troops at the First Indep…
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Numerous petroglyphs are the only record of the original settlers of this area, the Anasazi and Paiute Indians. In January 1858 a small Mormon pioneer group was sent south from Salt Lake City to raise cotton. The pioneers settled the east side of the Virgin…