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World War No. One
Alonzo Black · Nelo Brindley · Loril Carpenter · Glen Crabb · Wilford Davis · Gus Lambson · David . . . — — Map (db m260603) WM
In 1873, Albert Guiser and others located in a fertile meadow which they named Grass Valley. Surveyors camped on a stream, lassoed a young coyote and called the place Coyote Creek. The first L.D.S. settlers were Isaac Riddle and family who took up . . . — — Map (db m137023) HM
“To a life that accepts Nature’s hand in sculpting an individual expression — Nothing is exempt. From the mellifluous rhythm and tone of the wind chime, to the traditional form of the cloud — Nothing exists alone. All things . . . — — Map (db m146683) HM
Coping with Isolation
Rolling smoothly over Highway 12, it can be hard to grasp just how isolated the town of Boulder was until very recently. Picture, if you can, a time here before pavement and electricity. A time when a wagon ride to . . . — — Map (db m285942) HM
Boulder's Ranching Heritage
If you stood here in 1980, you would have looked down at the irrigated hayfields of local ranches, bright green and often dotted with cattle. From 1889, when the first settlers arrived in Boulder, until the early . . . — — Map (db m285941) HM
Last Link in Highway 12 Pavement Torrey lies just 37 miles from Boulder over Highway 12. But if this mountain route was closed, you'd have to drive more than 200 miles to get there by way of Panguitch. Before the Boulder Mountain section of . . . — — Map (db m146684) HM
This area has been home to many people, including the Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi) and Fremont cultures, who coexisted in the region between A.D. 700 and 1300.
There is a prehistoric village behind the museum, which was built around A.D. 1160. . . . — — Map (db m285944) HM
On June 14, 2009, a lightning strike started the Bridge Fire that burned 3,947 acres in Bryce Canyon National Park and Dixie National Forest. Years of fire suppression had created a crowded, diseased, and less diverse forest. As the fire, a natural . . . — — Map (db m272573) HM
In 1933, during the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), providing employment for young married men. From 1934-41, at Bryce Canyon National Park the CCC planted trees and shrubs, built . . . — — Map (db m287076) HM
Return of Our Fastest Animal
Though its genus name, Antilocapra, means "antelope goat", the pronghorn is neither antelope nor goat. It is, instead, the sole surviving member of its genetic family, an American original. The fastest animal in . . . — — Map (db m260547) HM
Gilbert Stanley Underwood, the master architect hired by Union Pacific Railroad, helped pioneer the National Park Service rustic style. Here at Bryce Canyon, his artistry, vision, and utilization of local timber and stone, created structures that . . . — — Map (db m260442) HM
Bryce Airport's Vital Role
In this remote region, with major hospitals and airfields hundreds of miles away, Bryce Airport provides critical emergency support. Built in 1936 as an emergency landing strip for commercial airlines, the airport . . . — — Map (db m74765) HM
Starting in the 1920s, the Union Pacific Railroad and their subsidiary, the Utah Parks Company, played a key role in the development and popularization of Bryce Canyon and many other western national parks. They provided first-class train and bus . . . — — Map (db m260441) HM
On August 25 and September 6, 2018, lighting strikes ignited two separate fires that merged, creating the Lonely / Riggs Fire. Over 2,000 acres in Bryce Canyon and Dixie National Forest burned. Thanks to a proactive forest management program, the . . . — — Map (db m287109) HM
The California condor, with a nearly ten-foot wingspan, is the largest land bird in North America. Its range once stretched across the west, south to Baja California, and north to British Columbia. By 1940, this magnificent bird was on the verge of . . . — — Map (db m259839) HM
A testament to the courage and perseverance of the early Mormon settlers who built a home where they could raise their families and sustain their lives in this remote part of Southern Utah.
The Historic Tropic Ditch delivers life-giving . . . — — Map (db m272570) HM
In July 1915, Joseph William (J.W.) Humphrey, a US Forest Service supervisor, visited this place for the first time. He wrote, “You can perhaps imagine my surprise at the indescribable beauty….It was sundown before I could be dragged from the canyon . . . — — Map (db m260274) HM
People have been living in Bryce Canyon for over 10,000 years. Spearpoints and arrowheads, grinding stones, pottery shards, baskets, and oral histories of indigenous cultures – Paleo Indians, Fremont, Ancestral Puebloan – tell the story of their . . . — — Map (db m260276) HM
Scottish-born Ebenezer Bryce apprenticed as a shipwright. In 1850, the 18-year-old converted to Mormonism, moved to Utah, and married Mary Ann Park. At the direction of church officials, the Bryces became serial homesteaders – moving from place to . . . — — Map (db m260389) HM
Before there were any Indians, the Legend People, To-when-an-ung-wa, lived in that place…
~ Paiute Indian
Paiute Indians inhabited this region for hundreds of years before the arrival of European Americans. A sacred oral tradition . . . — — Map (db m260391) HM
"Tail is going out. We may get down..."
"...and we may not." On October 24, 1947, Captain Everett L, McMillan of United Flight 608 relayed these chilling words. The mid-section of his DC-9 engulfed in flames, McMillan was attempting to steer . . . — — Map (db m260548) HM
Southern Paiutes call this place Unka-koh-vah-wong-weents, which means “Red Face Standing”. Within these bowl-shaped areas – amphitheaters – stands the world’s greatest concentration of irregular rock spires, called “hoodoos”. The word is a . . . — — Map (db m259840) HM
"Before there were any Indians, the Legend People, To-when-an-ung-wa, lived in that place. There were many of them. They were of many kinds - birds, animals, lizards and such things - but they looked like people....For some reason, the . . . — — Map (db m40537) HM
Union Pacific Railroad served Bryce Canyon well as it grew to national park status. The railroad's vision of the site's potential for tourism culminated in the creation of the "Grand Circle Tour", a tour that traveled to several parks in one trip. . . . — — Map (db m40550) HM
In 1924, when the park was first established, visitors for that year totaled 17,213. A remote locale, poor access, limited on-site accommodations, and few car owners allowed only the elite and the adventurous to come to Bryce Canyon. Twenty years . . . — — Map (db m40533) HM
He laid the foundation of the National Park Service, defining and establishing the policies under which its areas shall be developed and conserved unimpaired for future generations. There will never come an end to the good that he has done. — — Map (db m40524) HM
In the early 1920s, the Union Pacific Railroad, the National Park Service and the National Forest Service worked together to develop Bryce Canyon as a national park. This collection of cabins and the Bryce Canyon Lodge are a product of that . . . — — Map (db m40558) HM
Before Bryce Canyon was a national park, the Union Pacific Railroad conceived the "Grand Circle" of parks; an area that encompassed Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon, Cedar Breaks and the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. In order for the "Circle" to . . . — — Map (db m40534) HM
Making do with limited resources, pioneers built rip-gut fences. After cutting hundreds of junipers, they laid the "riders", the longer pieces of timber, against the "stakes", the shorter pieces that hold the "riders" up. They didn't need nails or . . . — — Map (db m286059) HM
Before pioneers dug irrigation ditches to reach houses and gardens, they used horses to haul their water from the nearby muddy Paria River - 400 pounds at a time - in a water lizard, a barrel on skids like the one behind you. One household needed . . . — — Map (db m286122) HM
"This was the country the Mormons settled. Its distances were terrifying, its cloudbursts catastrophic, its beauty flamboyant and bizarre and allied with death. Its droughts and its heat were withering. Nobody else wanted it, nobody but a . . . — — Map (db m286123) HM
To the Paiute, home was not only a shelter made from juniper, but the entire landscape. Through this immense place the Paiute moved as if from room to room, gathering a certain plant here, another there. Lingering where the land offered its precious . . . — — Map (db m286066) HM
In the winter, settlers went without fresh fruits and vegetables for months at a time, surviving on buckwheat as they worked in the fields, dug miles of irrigation ditches by hand, or traveled a week by wagon to get salt, cloth, or nails. In the . . . — — Map (db m286125) HM
The western region of the Monument is known as the “Grand Staircase”. This area consists of a series of benches and cliffs that progressively step up in elevation from south to north, resembling a giant staircase.
These colorful “steps” rise . . . — — Map (db m287049) HM
A Land and Its People: An Intricate Dance
The grand and rugged landscape of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument influences all that lives within its boundaries. Beginning Over 10,000 years ago with the arrival of the first people, . . . — — Map (db m287014) HM
It is as if each human culture is a translucent veil draped across the landscape. Each can be seen through the other, but each changes the color of he whole. Each culture found something different to value in this landscape.
- Thomas Lowe . . . — — Map (db m286061) HM
One horticultural technique the Paiutes handed down through millennia was "coppicing", a form of pruning that encouraged the re-growth of young branches that were straight, long, and flexible - properties they valued highly for basketry, . . . — — Map (db m286126) HM
From dripping seeps to flash floods, water shapes landscape and all life. The Paiute tuned their lives to its music, moving from sandstone seeps to springs in a complex seasonal rhythm.
The Paiute possessed an intimate knowledge of plants, . . . — — Map (db m286069) HM
Archaeology reveals that the Southern Paiute, a Numic-speaking people from the Southern Great Basin, arrived in this region about 800 years ago. The Southern Paiute say they have always been here. They call themselves Nuwuvi, or The People, meaning . . . — — Map (db m286064) HM
In 1876 Cannonville was settled by Mormons, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS), who came to the Utah Territory in 1847 seeking religious freedom. Most towns in southern Utah were colonized by missions directed from . . . — — Map (db m286124) HM
Dependent on food plants brought from the wetter eastern United States and Europe, pioneers established a different lifestyle than the Paiute Indians. Rather than moving between water sources, pioneers moved water to their crops. Settlements like . . . — — Map (db m286121) HM
On November 8, 1901, the Salt Lake Tribune reported, "Butch Cassiday [sic] has more lives than a dozen cats, and his ubiquitousness is more than a match for his multitudinous lives. He has been killed time and again within the past five years, and . . . — — Map (db m272247) HM
It all began in the small community of Circleville, Utah, back in the summer of 1988. Two lifelong friends were sitting on a pick up tail gate, enjoying a Coke, and speculating about the recent closure of Hwy 53 to OHV's. With this closure, they . . . — — Map (db m272244) HM
Robert Leroy Parker, A.K.A. Butch Cassidy, lived here with his family from 1880 to around 1884.
He was 14 when his family moved here and about 18 when he left. Research about Parker's life here is ongoing. Information uncovered so far shows he . . . — — Map (db m272246) HM
You are standing near the Old Spanish Trail, a 2,700-mile route that facilitated trade between Santa Fe, New Mexico and Los Angeles, California in the early to mid-1800s. While woven goods, horses, and mules were the primary items of commerce, trade . . . — — Map (db m272241) HM
Just prior to the creation of Lake Powell, a party of 49, including
Explorer Scout Post 36 from LDS Pleasant View 3rd Ward, Provo, Utah,
set out on an expedition to run the Colorado River rapids between
Hole-in-the-Rock and Glen Canyon. Riding in . . . — — Map (db m300544) HM
Skill, Sweat, and Dynamite Before the Highway 12 route was built, traveling through this region was slow, hard work. As late as 1940, Boulder still received its mail by mule train for part of the year. The Civilian Conservation Corps had . . . — — Map (db m146682) HM
A Place for Solitude In this vast landscape, you can immerse yourself in the sights, sounds, and textures of the natural world. Listen to a penetrating silence, broken only by the rasping call of a raven overhead. Walk amid rock formations that . . . — — Map (db m146599) HM
Gathering in celebration, members of the Hole-in-the-Rock Expedition found the smooth floor, sheltering alcove, and natural acoustics of this beautiful sandstone amphitheater perfect for fiddle music and dancing. From mid-November to early January . . . — — Map (db m300539) HM
In 1866, a group of Mormon Cavalrymen noted this valley, while in pursuit of Indians during the Black Hawk War.
In February, 1875, a company of men came from Beaver, Utah and explored the valley. The first permanent settlers came from Beaver, . . . — — Map (db m74744) HM
In 1876-77 Escalante Pioneers erected a log building, 36 x 18 feet, located 20 feet west of this marker. The logs 18 inches in diameter came from Cyclone Lake Mountain by ox team. They were hewn by hand, fastened with oak pins, morticed ends and . . . — — Map (db m74745) HM
Homeland for Many Cultures People have lived in, named, and known this landscape for more than 11,000 years. Artifacts of their lives surround you. Ancient Puebloan peoples came to and through here from many places speaking many languages. . . . — — Map (db m286032) HM
This structure, the second public building in Escalante, was erected in 1884 of native stone by Mormon pioneers under the direction of Bishop Andrew P. Schow, Edwin Twitchell and Thomas Heaps. The stone mason was Morgan Richards. It was used to . . . — — Map (db m74746) HM
The isolated trails between Boulder and Escalante, Utah, were important in the history of the two towns. The foot trail, used by Indians for centuries, connected the two areas and was known as the Death Hollow Trail. Mules, horses, or people . . . — — Map (db m74759) HM
Escalante's first church stood on or near this spot. It was a two-story building made of white sandstone. The upper floor was used as the LDS Chapel and for recreational purposes; the lower floor provided classrooms for church organizations and at . . . — — Map (db m74748) HM
One Wild Wagon Trip to Remember
In March 1879, Mormons from Cedar City were called by their church to settle the San Juan River basin in southeastern Utah. Since no direct wagon routes connected the two regions, leaders of the San Juan . . . — — Map (db m285948) HM
The Last Frontier ”No animal without wings could cross the deep gulches in the sandstone basin at our feet. The stream which we had followed and whose course soon became lost in the multitude of chasms before us was not the one we were . . . — — Map (db m146681) HM
About 1872 Joseph Asay with his family settled about 3/4 mile west and a little south of this spot. Soon other homesteaders settled in the locality. Tom Jessup and Dan LeRoy erected a water power saw mill. A shingle mill was also placed on the . . . — — Map (db m74676) HM
In 1904 the Hatch L.D.S. Ward building was erected on this lot. A vestibule was added in 1910 and the bell was purchased with donations from ward members. For many years it hung in the tower and rang out for all civic, social and church activities. . . . — — Map (db m74679) HM
In 1872 Meltiar Hatch settled at the head of the Sevier River, near the junction of Mammoth and Asay Creeks. He engaged in stock raising and operated a water-power saw mill. Soon other settlers came. Land was surveyed and irrigation ditches dug. . . . — — Map (db m74677) HM
Dakota Formation’s Coal and Clay While the rock formations in this region often presented formidable travel obstacles for early settlers, they also supplied many useful natural resources. Locally, a rock layer known as the Dakota Formation (the . . . — — Map (db m146737) HM
In 1871, this region was part of the last uncharted territory in the continental United States. That year, Major John Wesley Powell launched the Second Powell Expedition to explore and map this frontier, continuing the work he had begun three years . . . — — Map (db m74763) HM
Sheep by the Thousands ”I'd imagine there'd be 100,000 sheep sheared down there... I think they had about twenty sheep shearers — good, fast sheep shearers — and they was going all the time there..." —Jim Smith of Henrieville, recalling . . . — — Map (db m146720) HM
Visitors to Panguitch, Utah will enjoy the opportunity to view many of the historic structures in this community which was settled by Mormon pioneers.
Famously creative survival skills are not the only heritage the early settlers left behind. . . . — — Map (db m146764) HM
A Modern Handcart Company
65 N Main
Constructed of Panguitch-kilned brick, this building has housed numerous proprietors over the past 100 years. Vee Foy’s Scenic Café served up delicious food here during the 1930s and 1940s and shared . . . — — Map (db m260564) HM
Bronco Bobbi’s
37 N Main
In 1906 this building was the Dixie Photo Company. As automobiles became more available, Sargent and Cherrington Garage opened here. Harry Langdon operated a photography business for several years during World . . . — — Map (db m260567) HM
Outlaw or Hero?
"My father, he carried the mail, and he always stopped and had dinner at a certain place [in Red Canyon]. While he was having dinner, old Butch Cassidy came to his camp. He told about these fellows following him. He got up . . . — — Map (db m40513) HM
Cowboy Collectibles
57 N Main
James and Tillie Clark owned and operated the first café in Panguitch from this location. The on June 1, 1925 the Bryce Canyon Café opened its doors. Leased from the Clarks by Fred and Eleanor Bruhn, the . . . — — Map (db m260566) HM
Cowboy’s Smokehouse Café
95 N Main
Built in 1882, this is one of the oldest surviving commercial red brick buildings on Main Street. Originally, stockholders operated the Garfield Exchange, a general merchandise store, here. By the 1920s . . . — — Map (db m260561) HM
Numerous fortifications were erected in Central and Southern Utah in 1865 and 1866 during the Black Hawk Indian War to protect small settlements against attack by bands of Ute, Paiute, and Navajo Indians. Most were built around the towns themselves, . . . — — Map (db m272262) HM
There is little evidence today that Fort Sanford once existed. A land survey indicates it stood approximately 1.5 miles to the south of this marker.
The Fort was built in 1866 to protect the settlers in Circleville and Panguitch during the . . . — — Map (db m272270) HM
Lee’s Indian Store
83 N Main
This ornate building is another beautiful example of an elaborate metal façade similar to the “S.U.E.” structure. At one point between 1930 and 1950 it housed a pool hall in the basement, a barber shop on the . . . — — Map (db m260563) HM
...the longest, crookedost, most arduous pack mule route in the history of America...
Profit could be made transporting New Mexico serapes and other woolen goods to Los Angeles, and wrangling California-bred horses and mules back to . . . — — Map (db m272575) HM
Center Panel
In Memory of All Veterans Who Served in the Armed Forces to Keep Our Country Free
*Died in Service
Left Panel
Mormon Battalion
Bunker, Edward •
Clark, Riley G. Sr •
Hatch, Meltair
Civil . . . — — Map (db m272335) WM
In March, 1864, about fifty pioneers under the leadership of Jens Nielson settled Panguitch. They built a fort of logs, enclosing their homes and a building used for church, school and recreation. The town was abandoned in 1867, because of Indian . . . — — Map (db m27020) HM
Panguitch stake of the L.D.S. Church was organized in 1877 with James Henrie as president. In March 1880, plans were made for a stake house with George Dodds, architect, and M.M. Steel, Sr., chairman of the building. The following men were prominent . . . — — Map (db m27040) HM
During the first settlement of Panguitch, between 1864 and 1867, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints paid tithes with produce and cattle, which were kept on this lot and disbursed as needed. Barns and corrals were constructed . . . — — Map (db m74680) HM
Podunk received its name from a Paiute Indian named Po Dunk, who had become lost in the heavily timbered area near the East Fork of the Sevier River. The area was named after him, and the guard station named after the area in which it was built and . . . — — Map (db m260550) HM
A New Park's Magical Opening
"One little fairy hopped upon the running board and asked Governor Dern if he believed in fairies. 'Yes,' he said. 'Then,' said she, 'enter into Fairyland." - From Golden Nuggets of Pioneer Days, Daughters . . . — — Map (db m40509) HM
A New Park's Magical Opening
"One little fairy hopped upon the running board and asked Governor Dern if he believed in fairies. 'Yes,' he said. 'Then,' said she, 'enter into Fairyland." - From Golden Nuggets of Pioneer Days, Daughters . . . — — Map (db m272514) HM
A New Park's Magical Opening
"One little fairy hopped upon the running board and asked Governor Dern if he believed in fairies. 'Yes,' he said. 'Then,' said she, 'enter into Fairyland." - From Golden Nuggets of Pioneer Days, Daughters . . . — — Map (db m272516) HM
Smokin Hot Antiques at the Old Firehouse
38 N Main
Originally built as Barlow Garage, members of the Davies family, owners of the business, also lived here. By the 1930s S.W. Barton was operating his Texaco Panguitch Garage from this . . . — — Map (db m260557) HM
The Panguitch Social Hall was built during the years between 1890-1900. Fredrick Judd made the bricks and slacked the lime for the laying of the brick. The walls were three bricks thick, and the building had wide double-doors on either side of the . . . — — Map (db m74682) HM
The Liquor Store
48 N Main
The Telluride Power Company housed its offices in this building and the building on the right during the 1940s. Utah Power then managed a walk-in payment, credit and billing office here until 1996. The State . . . — — Map (db m260559) HM
The Original Kenny Ray’s Restaurant
80 N Main
In the 1920s a freighting company owned by the Foy family occupied this corner. Ted Chidester built a new building to house his restaurant Ted’s Place in the 1930s. In the 1940s Joe and Vee . . . — — Map (db m260560) HM
The first group of pioneers came to Panguitch on March 16, 1864, from Parowan under the leadership of Jens Nielson. They followed the route over the rugged Bear Valley, a part of the Spanish Trail. Crops were planted, but the season was short and . . . — — Map (db m27046) HM
In 1864 a group of hardy pioneers braved the mountain snows to save their families from starvation. This group of men encountered snows that were impassable. According to their
faith they knelt on a quilt in a prayer circle. The answer to their . . . — — Map (db m74681) HM
Victorian Lane
21 N Main
Many businesses, including the Elk Pharmacy, Cowboy Collectibles ad the Little Indian Curio, have their beginnings in this building. Over the years it has been a shoe repair shop, a carpet store, a fly fishing . . . — — Map (db m260569) HM
"Coming up through there, the sand was bad enough that you'd back up and take a run on it and maybe you'd make twenty feet, maybe you'd make a hundred. Then you'd have to back up, you know, and get another run … keep breaking . . . — — Map (db m283927) HM
By 1874 members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints had begun to settle in the Paria Valley east of Bryce Canyon. Arid conditions gave rise to a plan to divert water 10 miles (16 km) from the East Fork of the Sevier River to the . . . — — Map (db m260546) HM
The trail splits here, with each side leading to water that is crucial for life in a dry land. To the left, a natural spring seeps from a rocky cliff, watering plants as it has for untold time. To the right, Water Canyon is fed by the Tropic Ditch – . . . — — Map (db m260543) HM
Clifton (Loseeville) was situated in East Valley one mile east of the Pahreah River and four miles North of Cannonville. The first settlers were Ebenezer Bryce in 1876 and Daniel Goulding in 1878. They built a ditch to bring water to the valley . . . — — Map (db m74743) HM
This streamside walk leads to a small cave that fills with summer moss and winter ice. At one time, water only flowed through Water Canyon after summer storms and spring snowmelt. After settlers completed an irrigation canal in 1892, water was . . . — — Map (db m260516) HM
Listen to the rushing stream. For plants and animals it is the sound of life, yet it is also the sound of rapid change. In 1892, water for the town of Tropic was diverted into this once seasonal drainage, transforming Water Canyon into one of the . . . — — Map (db m260517) HM
