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Location: Box Elder
County: Box Elder
Monument #: Sponsor/Year: Box Elder Chapter - 1903  Location: 62 North Main Built in 1903, the elegant two-story building had an upper floor for dancing and an open air pavilion on the ground floor. Brothers Christian and Peter Christensen ran the Academy and offered dance instruction and ballroom dancing. Three of Christians’s sons—William, Harold, and Lew—studied at the Academy and later became national...  Location: 280 North 200 West (behind Lincoln Center), Brigham City. In July 1853 Brigham Young ordered the people settled in the Brigham City vicinity to construct another fort to provide protection from the Indians. The Indian danger soon abated and a survey and a plat of the city was made in 1855 to allow settlers...  Location: 50 South Main Street, Brigham City. The Brigham City Archway was built in 1928 at a cost of $2,400, most of which came from citizen donations. The finished sign measured 9 by 33 feet and was embellished with more than 350 electrical lights. The sign was replicated with newer materials in 1984.  Location: The corner of Main & Forest Streets (Now Wells Fargo Bank), Brigham City. Built in 1890, the mercantile store was the last building constructed from the Brigham City Co-op. Three years after the store opened, a fire destroyed the business a year before the cooperative organization closed. First Security Bank bought the building on...  Location: 200 South Main Street, Brigham City In 1865, Brigham Young directed Elder Lorenzo Snow to build a tabernacle for conferences in the Box Elder Stake on “Sagebrush Hill.” The cornerstone was laid on May 9, 1865, and President Wilford Woodruff dedicated the finished building in 1890. Later a fire gutted the tabernacle, and the...  Location: Brigham Young Park, West Forest Street, Brigham City. Under the leadership of Elder Lorenzo Snow, Brigham City was the first important Mormon community to organize cooperative activity under the system of the United Order of 1874. Approximately 30–40 industry branches were established with the aim of producing and manufacturing what they consumed and used....
County: Box Elder
Monument #: UPTLA 69 Sponsor/Year: Brigham City Corporation, Wards, Civic Clubs, Patriotic Organizations in Box Elder Stake, including the Utah Pioneer Trails and Landmarks Association - 1937  Location: Brigham Young Park, West Forest St. Erected in honor of Brigham Young in commemoration of the outstanding service he rendered to the intermountain west, as patriot, pioneer, colonizer, Church leader and statesman. On this plot of ground Aug. 19, 1877, he delivered his last public address when he organized the Box Elder Stake.
County: Box Elder
Monument #: Sponsor/Year: Box Elder Chapter - 1942  Location: Entrance at 400 East 700 South Street, Brigham City. In 1942, Bushnell General Hospital was built in Brigham City to treat World War II wounded. The hospital closed in 1946 after 13,000 army personnel were treated. In 1950, the Bureau of Indian Affairs converted the Bushnell facility to a boarding school for Navajo children...
County: Box Elder
Monument #: UPTLA 22 Sponsor/Year: Utah Pioneer Trails and Landmarks Association and members and friends of the Call family - 1933  Location: Highway 38 south of Honeyville, Utah This monument marks the S. E. corner of a fort built by Anson Call and associates in 1855 under direction of President Brigham Young, as protection against Indians. The fort was the most northerly outpost in Utah. It was 120 feet square, with walls 8 feet high and... |
