First Settlers of Holladay

First Settlers of Holladay. . , John D. Holladay, a leader of the Mississippi Company of Mormon Pioneers, entered the Salt Lake Valley on July 29, 1847. , John Holladay's group explored the valley of the Great Salt Lake and its tributary canyons with an eye towards irrigation, wild hay for their animals, and water power for mills. Most of the Mississippi Company stayed together and by fall had planned their farms and community in the area of a free-flowing, spring-fed stream issuing from the base of Mt. Olympus. Thus the village of Spring Creek, as the stream was then called, was the first to be established away from Great Salt Lake City itself. , As soon as John D. Holladay was named the Branch President, the village took upon itself the name of Holladay's Settlement or Holladay's Burgh. , In February of 1849 the first surveyed plots of land were issued to the settlers. , Original land owners , Lot #1 John D. Holladay · Lot #2 Alen F. Smithson · Lot #3 Robert D. Covington · Lot #4 John D. Holladay · Lot #5 Robert D. Covington · Lot #6 Orlando F. Mead · Lot #7 Robert D. Covington · Lot #8 John Lockhart · Lot #9 John Lockhart · Lot #10 John D. Holladay · Lot #11 Lyman Stephens · Lot #12 Joseph Matthews · Lot #13 Ezekiel Lee · Lot #14 Milo Andrus · Lot #15 Daniel W. Perkins · Lot #16 William Casto · Lot #17 Wiliam Watkins · Lot #18 William Whitehead