Location: Utah

1900 Baptismal Site

Monument #: 153
Sponsor/Year: Taylorsville Bennion Chapter - 2010
GPS: N 40º 39.854´, W 111º 56.010´

Location: 1488 West 4800 South near the Taylorsville Bennion Heritage Center. Marking and honoring the location where many Saints and early residents of Taylorsville were baptized in the canal there

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1st Building Outside SLC – for Education & Religious Use

County: Salt Lake
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Sponsor/Year: Utah Pioneer Trails and Landmarks Association -

Location: Gordon Lane & 300 East

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1st Community Center

County: Cache
Monument #: UPTLA 63
Sponsor/Year: Explorer Scouts of the Logan Fifth Ward and Utah Pioneer Trails and Landmarks Association - 1935

Location: 480 North 400 East, Logan, Utah The first community center of the Logan Fifth Ward was built thirty feet east of this spot during the winter of 1865-66, under the leadership of Bengt P. Woolfenstein. Consisting of but one room 16 by 20 feet, it served nevertheless as Church building, amusement hall and school...

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1st Company of Mormon Pioneers

County: Salt Lake
Monument #: I-1
Sponsor/Year: Twin Peaks Chapter - 1987

Location: Pioneer State Park, 2601 Sunnyside Avenue This monument lists the names of the members of the first company of pioneers to enter the valley.

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1st Settlers in Holladay

County: Salt Lake
Monument #: 65
Sponsor/Year: Holladay Chapter - 1994

Location: 4782 Holladay Blvd. This monument and plaque shows the original survey in 1849 with the names of the first settlers, and the leader of the settlers, John D. Holladay, as branch president.

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1st Settlers of Logan

County: Cache
Monument #: UPTLA 9
Sponsor/Year: Citizens of Logan, May 6, 1909 – the tablet was provided by Utah Pioneer Trails and Landmarks Association - 1932

Location: 50 North Main, on the LDS Tabernacle grounds. The first settlers of Logan encamped near this spot on the bank of the Little Logan River early in May 1859. Heads of families are listed on the tablet, in memory of these pioneers and others who followed during that year.

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1st Statewide Pioneer Days Celebration

County: Salt Lake
Monument #: UPTLA 14
Sponsor/Year: Utah Pioneer Trails and Landmarks Association and Cottonwood Stake, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - 1932

Location: Brighton, Utah, at the top of Big Cottonwood Canyon at Silver Lake. This celebration was held in this mountain basin July 23-24, 1857. Headed by Brigham Young, the Company reaching here July 23rd numbered 2,587 persons, with 464 carriages & wagons, 1028 horses & mules and 332 oxen and cows. A program of addresses,...

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1st Ward Meeting House

County: Box Elder
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Sponsor/Year: Box Elder Chapter -

Location: 311 South 100 East Street, Brigham City Built in 1884-1886, the First Ward Meeting House is the oldest church still standing in Brigham City. It was made of stone, and a wooden recreation hall was later added to form a T with the main building.

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65 Mile Trail to Hole in the Rock

County: Gar/Kane
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Sponsor/Year: Hole-in-the-Rock - 2005

Location: Escalante,UT to Hole-in-the-Rock

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A Historical Event – Mother Froze Saving Baby

County: Garfield
Monument #: 141
Sponsor/Year: Hole-in-the-Rock Chapter - 2006

Location: About twelve miles NW of Escalante, beyond the Blue Spruce Campground. Near this spot on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, 1939, a young mother froze to death, sacrificing her life to save her four-month old infant daughter.

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