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Salt Lake City Life
Salt Lake City was founded on Photo: Steve Greenwood
July 24, 1847— now celebrated as Pioneer Day.
as the Anasazi and Fremont Indians. Remnants
and on Monday started tilling the soil and
of their lives, art and beliefs are scattered across
planting crops. Within a few days, plans were
the State. Hundreds of years before the first
sketched for “Great Salt Lake City” and the site
white people the ancestors of the Shoshones,
for the Salt Lake LDS (Mormon) Temple was
Utes, Southern Paiutes, and Goshutes first
dedicated on July 28, 1847. Workers broke
made their home in the mountains and valleys
ground for the landmark structure in 1853.
This is the Place Heritage Park recreates the pioneer era
of Utah.
The first white men in Utah were
Franciscan friars Dominguez and Escalante and 11 others who in 1776 tried to forge an over land route between Santa Fe and Monterrey, California, but were stopped by the daunting Southern Utah wilderness.
Pioneers On Saturday July 24, 1847, a vanguard
group of religious refugees fleeing persecution in the East made their way to the Salt Lake Valley. Under the leadership of the ‘American Moses’ Brigham Young, the industrious Mormons held a Sabbath service on Sunday
Photo: Steve Greenwood
Brigham Young Monument at Main Street Plaza
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