Miller Park

Miller Park. . In 1935, Minnie Miller, who served as State Regent of the Utah State Society, DAR, 1915-1920, donated part of the land for Miller Park in memory of her husband, Lee Charles Miller. This land, along with other city land, was for a nature park to be enjoyed by the children of the area., Red Butte Creek reaches this park after following a southwesterly course from the Wasatch Range. Above Fort Douglas (now known as the Stephen A. Douglas Armed Forces Reserve Center), reservoirs collected potable water from the creek for local use., An invasion of grasshoppers threatened the crops of the Salt Lake region in the summer of 1868. Red Butte Creek was one of the streams used in the destruction of these voracious insects. Armed with sacks and willow branches, local residents forced the grasshoppers into the creek's current, which carried the pests to sieves that trapped them and enabled people to destroy them., Utah State Society , Daughters of the American Revolution , Centennial Year 1897-1997 ,