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Mormon Built Road

County: Ontario
Monument #: UPTLA 108
Sponsor/Year: Utah Pioneer Trails and Landmarks Association - 1946

Location: Alvinston, Ontario, Canada

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1st Building Outside SLC – for Education & Religious Use

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

Location: Gordon Lane & 300 East

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Fish Springs & Pony Express Station

County: Juab
Monument #: UPTLA 91
Sponsor/Year: Utah Pioneer Trails and Landmarks Association -
GPS: N 39° 50´ 52.9˝, W 113° 24´ 39.0˝

Location: Approximately 10 miles west of Blackrock Station This was a Pony Express Station placed by J. H. Simpson along with another about four miles north at the Warm Springs site. The latter was apparently abandoned because of bad water. This is now a National Wildlife Refuge.

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Fairfield – Camp Floyd – Fort Crittenden

County: Utah
Monument #: UPTLA 82
Sponsor/Year: Citizens of Fairfield and Lehi, Oregon Trail Memorial Association and Utah Pioneer Trails and Landmarks Association - 1939

Location: Camp Floyd and Stagecoach Inn State Park, Fairfield, Utah. In 1855, Fairfield was settled by John Carson, William Carson, David Carson, William Beardshall and John Clegg. This monument is at the entrance, at the southeast corner of a rock fort four rods square, erected in 1856-7. Camp Floyd, adjoining Fairfield on the south and...

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Fort Kanab

County: Kane
Monument #: UPTLA 115
Sponsor/Year: Descendants of Levi Stewart and Utah Pioneer Trails and Landmarks Association - 1950

Location: 100 North and 300 West, Kanab, Utah, Levi Stewart Memorial Park Levi Stewart had been called from Salt Lake County by President Brigham Young to head a group of pioneers in settling this area. On June 14, 1870 he arrived with a party in seven wagons in Fort Kanab, which had been built a...

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Fort Robidoux

County: Uintah
Monument #: UPTLA 75
Sponsor/Year: Descendants of Levi Stewart and Utah Pioneer Trails and Landmarks Association - 1937

Location: 100 North and 300 West, Kanab, Utah, Levi Stewart Memorial Park Levi Stewart had been called from Salt Lake County by President Brigham Young to head a group of pioneers in settling this area. On June 14, 1870 he arrived with a party in seven wagons in Fort Kanab, which had been built a...

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Ensign Peak

County: Salt Lake
Monument #: UPTLA 43
Sponsor/Year: Utah Pioneer Trails and Landmarks Association - 1934

Location: 100 East 1000 North Street – Ensign Vista Dr. — Salt Lake City. July 26, 1847, two days after the Mormon Pioneers entered this valley, Brigham Young and party climbed to this point and with the aid of field glasses made a careful survey of the mountains, canyons and streams. In the group were...

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Ephraim Hank’s Pony Express Station

County: Salt Lake
Monument #: UPTLA 37
Sponsor/Year: Utah Pioneer Trails and Landmarks Association - 1934

Location: Mountain Dell

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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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Fort Cameron

County: Beaver
Monument #: UPTLA 67
Sponsor/Year: Beaver Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Utah Pioneer Trails and Landmarks Association - 1936

Location: 200 South Main Street Fort Cameron was located two miles east of the city of Beaver. Established as the Post of Beaver, May 25, 1872 by Eighth U.S. Infantry, Major John D. Wilkins commanding. The military reservation, declared May 12, 1873, comprised two and two-thirds square miles. The name was changed July 1, 1874...

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