Enclosing graves (West side) of two men and a child, emigrants of the early eighteen sixties.
Original Wall erected in 1888, by Mrs. Horace (Aunt Libby) Rockwell, to shelter graves of her beloved dogs. 1. Jenny Lind, 2. Josephine Bonaparte, . . . — — Map (db m150601) HM
In 1899 speech to National Council of Women, Iosepa resident urged support of
women's voting rights efforts in the Territory of Hawai'i. — — Map (db m301557) HM
St. Joseph, MO. - Sacramento, Cal.
Also Overland Stage & Freight Route
1858 - 1868
This Monument Constructed by
Enrollees of U.S. Grazing Division,
C. C. C. Camp G-154, Company 2517. — — Map (db m150600) HM
Riverbed Station Pony Express 1860-61
St. Joseph, Mo. - Sacramento, Cal. Also Overland Stage & freight route 1858-1863
This monument constructed by enrollees of U.S. Grazing Division, C.C.C. Camp G-154, Company 2517.
Sponsored by Oregon . . . — — Map (db m249657) HM
No 94
Official Marker Utah Pioneer Trails and Landmarks Association
Erected Aug. 23, 1940
Burnt Station
300 feet west
Pony Express- 1860-61
St. Joseph, Missouri - Sacramento, California
Overland Stage 1858 - 1868 . . . — — Map (db m249472) HM
The Alex and Mary Johnson House, built in 1900, was designed by a local
builder, Charles Zephaniah Shaffer, who was influenced by pattern books and
combined a remarkable unity of composition with elaborate decoration.
Completed for $4,500, it was . . . — — Map (db m301550) HM
Between 1820 and 1860, explorers and settlers followed a route to California which passed this site. One group, the Donner-Reed party, inched their way through rugged Hastings Pass only to face tragedy in the High Sierras.
Now wild horses . . . — — Map (db m67527) HM
This property was within the walls of the Willow Creek Fort, (Grantsville), which was built shortly after the first white settlers arrived. The main building was erected in 1852. J. Reuben Clark II purchased the property in later years and restored . . . — — Map (db m301545) HM
This monument marks the site of the Grantsville Fort built in 1853 as protection against the Indians. The fort was thirty rods square with walls twelve feet high five feet thick at the base and eighteen inches thick at the top. The north wall was . . . — — Map (db m301552) HM
Hilda Anderson Brickson, born in Ledsjo, Sweden December 11, 1859 was the last
surviving immigrant pioneer. In 1866 at the age of 6 she crossed the plains
with her family in the Abner Lowry Company. She married John A. Erickson
in the endowment . . . — — Map (db m301551) HM
This hallowed place was dedicated on August 28, 1890 by President Wilford Woodruff for all the nations in the isles of the seas, the Polynesian pioneers, their descendants and the faithful Church leaders who left their home in the mid 1800’s and . . . — — Map (db m301558) HM
Mormon Church converts from Polynesia settled in Skull Valley in 1889–1917, working for the Church-owned Iosepa Agriculture and Stock Company.
Their settlement located 1/2 mile to the southwest, and named Iosepa (Joseph) after Joseph F. . . . — — Map (db m301559) HM
This Cabin was erected by Settlers
in approximately 1853 and
was originally located two blocks
East of this Site on the
"Jefferies Property" — — Map (db m301543) HM
This Pioneer Blacksmith Shop
was originally located about two blocks
East of this site. The Blacksmith was
so important in Pioneer Life that many
Communities offered him a Parcel of Land
to set up Shop for an agreed length of time. — — Map (db m301544) HM
The Cherokee Trail is the longest branch
of the California National Historic Trail
It originates in Arkansas and Oklahoma.
The Trail crosses Kansas and Wyoming
East to West, and in Colorado, South to
North. In 1849, the Evans/Cherokee . . . — — Map (db m301548) HM
The Lincoln Highway was established in 1913 when a group of businessmen involved in the automobile industry decided to sponsor and promote a transcontinental highway for automobile traffic.They organized the Lincoln Highway Association and dedicated . . . — — Map (db m301562) HM
This lonely fire hydrant serves as a land marker for the town site of Iosepa, Utah, located on the desert floor between Cedar Mountain and the Stansbury Range in Skull Valley. Iosepa was named after Joseph F. Smith, 6th president of the L.D.S. . . . — — Map (db m301560) HM
Twenty Wells
Emigrants bound for California in 1846 rested in this vicinity because of the cold, pure, spring water welling up from holes in the ground. These holes were six inches to nine feet in diameter and more than 70 feet deep. When . . . — — Map (db m301536) HM
American Indians inhabited lands along the Pony Express Trail for thousands of years before the Pony began its historic run. From the 1840s through the 1860s, they watched swarms of white settlers cross their homelands-impacting traditional . . . — — Map (db m249489) HM
"Started out again across the desert, drove 6 miles, found water for our horses then drove on up the mountains for 9 miles of an upward grade. Reached the summit, then drove down into the Deep Creek Canyon."
- Abbey Fulkerth June 26, 1863 . . . — — Map (db m249753) HM
The Pony Express, Telegraph, and Overland Stage & Mail were routed via a main station at Ibapah.
Beginning on April 3, 1860, fast-paced Pony Express riders used Major Howard Egan's home station at Deep Creek to exchange horses and riders. . . . — — Map (db m249822) HM
Deep Creek Station
Pony Express
St. Joseph Missouri to Sacramento, California 1860-1861
Citizens of Ibapah and Utah Pioneer Trails and Landmarks Association — — Map (db m249494) HM
Ibapah, also known as Deep Creek, is an Indian name which means deep, clay-colored water.
Mail service, mining, grazing, freighting, traveling, missionary service to the Indian people, and ranching were reasons for settlement at Ibapah. An . . . — — Map (db m249497) HM
Stories of solitary Pony Express riders valiantly galloping through the western frontier still inspire people around the world. Publishers and editors during the 1860s often developed
romanticized tales of the Wild West. Eyewitness accounts . . . — — Map (db m249491) HM
Goshute people were one band of many Shoshone Indians
living in the Great Basin Region
The term "Gosiute" means "Kusiutta" describing their original dusty, well-traveled look. Goshute people inhabited the lush riparian areas of the region . . . — — Map (db m74276) HM
In 1845, it took six months to get a message from the East Coast of the United States to California. By the late 1850s, a half million people had migrated west and were demanding up-to-date news from home. Something had to be done to deliver mail . . . — — Map (db m249488) HM
The Lincoln Highway Association was organized in 1913 to promote a toll-free highway from coast to coast. This road, America's first transcontinental highway, brought the world to Ibapah's front door.
The 1916 Official Road Guide to the . . . — — Map (db m249824) HM
First Explorations to the Great Salt Desert
Prior to May of 1841, no wagon roads to Oregon or California existed - only long-distance Indian footpaths worn deeper by fur trade caravans hauling supplies into the Rocky Mountains. In the early . . . — — Map (db m301588) HM
"This morning it is raining it seams so plesent to see it rain as we have not seen it rane since we came in the valey before we now noon near a salt spring [Horseshoe Springs] we then went on to elbow spring [Hope Wells] fresh water it is very good . . . — — Map (db m301553) HM
"Seven miles brought us where the road forked - the left hand one leading up a ravine towards the mountain. We took it..."
Madison Berryman Moorman, July 27, 1850 — — Map (db m301554) HM
The Iosepa Community developed after Polynesian converts to the Mormon faith were employed as laborers by the Iosepa Agriculture and Stock Company in 1889. After numerous hardships, including bouts with leprosy, the colony attained a degree of . . . — — Map (db m301561) HM
This one room house was built by Carl Berg at this original location. It was used as a rental, mostly by bachelor miners. It has been restored to its old time appearance. — — Map (db m301591) HM
This one room house was
lived in by men who worked as
teamsters or miners. When it
became vacant in the 1930's it
served as a clubhouse for
the boys of Ophir. It was
moved to its present location
from Miners Street and was
restored to . . . — — Map (db m301592) HM
This ore loading facility was used during Ophir's mining heyday. Rich lead-silver ore was mined in the canyons high above, then loaded here into wagons or trucks to be freighted away for processing. This historical marker was donated by the . . . — — Map (db m301590) HM
This building was built by Walt Shubert, the mayor, to be furnished with the original equipment from the retired shoe shop located at Vine Street in Tooele, Utah. The original shoe shop in Ophir was owned and operated by Carl Berg. — — Map (db m301593) HM
The idea of the Lincoln Highway came from the creative mind of Carl Fisher, the man also responsible for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Miami Beach. With help from fellow industrialists Frank Seiberling and Henry Joy, an improved, hard-surfaced . . . — — Map (db m301564) HM
In 1850 L.D.S. Church Apostle, Ezra Taft Benson, was authorized by President
Brigham Young to develop a mill site at Twin Springs Creek to serve Mormon communities in Tooele County. In 1851 a sawmill commenced operating and in 1854 the Lee . . . — — Map (db m254639) HM
The Benson Grist Mill was built in 1854 on Twin Springs Creek by Thomas
Lee who had been hired by a corporation within the LDS church. Members of
this corporation included Ezra T. Benson, Benjamin Crosland, and John
Rowberry. On April 24, 1860, . . . — — Map (db m301531) HM
This shop was built by August William "Bill" Bolinder in the early 1940's
and used for 40 years. Bill learned smithing from his father, John Lars who is
credited with building the first "Mormon hay derrick".
In addition to shoeing horses and . . . — — Map (db m301520) HM
Hyrum E. Boothe built this barn in Grantsville about 1875. The beams are secured
using mortising and tenon and wooden pegs rather than nails, bolts or metal
strapping.
The Boothe family started the journey across the plains in 1852. Only . . . — — Map (db m301478) HM
Hyrum E. Boothe built this granary on Main Street in Grantsville about 1875.
It was located adjacent to the large barn on the Boothe property. This granary is
unique in that it possesses the inside-out design used in most granaries but it also has . . . — — Map (db m301510) HM
This structure was built in Grantsville, Utah by Lesand M arion Orr Boyer as a milk depot. It was located near the center of Grantsville on Vine Street. After the cows
were milked, the milk was taken to this depot where it was processed and readied . . . — — Map (db m301483) HM
This cabin was built by Andrew Barker Forsyth for his bride, Emily Elizabeth Moss in 1872. Andrew came to Utah as a boy of 14 in 1861, where he helped his father, John, install machinery in Brigham Young's Sugar House factory. When the machinery was . . . — — Map (db m301525) HM
This log barn was moved from a one-acre lot in Tooele at 343 North 50 West where it was built in the late 1860's or early 1870's. The barn was completely disassembled on the site, each log numbered, and then reassembled at the Mill property.
On . . . — — Map (db m301491) HM
Andrew John and Elna Pehrson Johnson homesteaded land on what was then the northern outskirts of Tooele City (west side of Main Street at 7th North) where they built the log cabin in 1864.
Eventually their youngest son, Samuel, was given the home . . . — — Map (db m301479) HM
The Liddell Granary was built by Laurence Thompson Liddell in the
early 1930's. It is an example of an inside-out granary. The outside
siding was placed on the inside of the building framework so the grain
would not push the siding off. This also . . . — — Map (db m301512) HM
Mease Houtz was the miller of the Benson Grist Mill prior to 1928. The home was
located on the east corner of the north entrance to Stansbury Park. His home is described as having no electricity with light coming from oil lamps. The stove for . . . — — Map (db m301527) HM
This log structure was built by Eric John Pehrson in approximately 1875. The logs were cut in Talywag and Red Pine Canyons seven miles southwest of Vernon, hauled to
Vernon via team and wagon where they were hand hewn with an ax and assembled. The . . . — — Map (db m301498) HM
The structure of this building is a replica of a
blacksmith shop originally located on the lane at the
Kennecott Ranch located opposite of Adobe Rock in Lake
Point, Utah. The William K. Dunne family built the
original building with clapboard . . . — — Map (db m301517) HM
This sheep camp, the "home away from home" for a sheep herder, was owned by James H. Harris (1882-1975) who ran a large sheep business in the Tooele Valley from 1939 until his death at the age of ninety-three.
Harris and his partners, first . . . — — Map (db m301494) HM
The Tanner Cabin was originally built at Clover, Utah as a
home for the Tanner family, but it was eventually made into a
Blacksmith Shop. Junius "Junk" Tanner built a newer home
in front of this log cabin prior to 1924. J.J. was known as
"Junk . . . — — Map (db m301513) HM
The Coachman Train Company of Montreal, Canada built the telegraph car in
approximately 1859. It was used during the construction of the central route of the
Transcontinental Railroad as a telegraph station, pay wagon, and a post office.
The . . . — — Map (db m301507) HM
detachment of the U.S. Army, the first to enter the Rocky Mountain region, consisting of two companies of artillery, 85 dragoons, 130 teamsters, herders and hostlers from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, under the command of Col. E.J. Steptoe, reach . . . — — Map (db m149985) HM
Dan Snan, Sculptor
Erected November 10, 2018
This monument stands as a tribute to all those who have served in the Armed Forces of the United States of America. They all have shared a portion of their lives preserving the honor and integrity . . . — — Map (db m303258) HM WM
Marvin Hitesman, Sculptor
May 21, 2020
To Honor the Veterans
of The Vietnam War (1960-1975)
The Vietnam War, which began as a civil
war in a small Asian country located
over 8,000 miles from America, became
a controversial and . . . — — Map (db m303261) WM
In the spring of 1871, Dr. Jeter F. Clinton built his "Lake House" in this area. A pier was built to the water's edge, bath houses and other attractions were built and the steamboat anchored here. Remains of the pier are still visible. In the fall . . . — — Map (db m301476) HM
In honor of the early settlers of Tooele County who made their first camp on this spot of ground September 18, 1849
Judson and Sarah Tolman, child Nancy
Josiah and Henrietta Call, child Cyril
Samuel and Sarah Meacham
October 1849
Cyrus . . . — — Map (db m303074) HM
A Long Tradition of Mining
Rush Valley Mining District was home to the first
mining organizations in Tooele County and Utah.
General Patrick E Conner began developing the
district in 1863 near what is now the city of Stockton.
The first . . . — — Map (db m303051) HM
Old Tooele County Courthouse
1999 Centennial Year
At a regular meeting of the County
Commissioners, consisting of John
A. Bevan, William Bracken of St. John,
and George Hammond of Grantsville, a
Resolution of Order was written into
the . . . — — Map (db m303265) HM
The first Tooele church was
erected in 1869 by the early
pioneers who settled in Tooele.
Bishop John Rowberry was in charge of
construction; George Atkin was
superintendent of work; and Richard and William
Kennington, Dave Adamson, John . . . — — Map (db m303263) HM
Erected in 1867 as a county court house. Active in construction were James Hammond, William Broad, Isaac Lee, W.C. Gollaher, John Gillespie, George Atkin and John Gordon. The building was used for court house, city hall and amusement center until . . . — — Map (db m303252) HM
In 1855 this cabin, one of the first in Tooele, was begun on Main Street by Zachariah Edwards, finished for their home 1856 by Andrew & Ann Gowans, and Hugh & Betsy Bowans where they lived together for a few months. Henry & Georgina Dolling lived . . . — — Map (db m303256) HM
Early Railroads
Railroads were vital to the growth of cities and industry in Utah. Railroad and mining industries boomed in the state after the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad. Railways made it possible for large-scale mining . . . — — Map (db m303059) HM
What Is a Caboose
The caboose was usually the last car of the train. It was
a workspace for the train conductor. A conductor had
many jobs: communicating with the locomotive, ensuring
the train was on time, making sure freight was . . . — — Map (db m303005) HM
Tooele Army Depot (Tooele Ordnance Depot)
In 1942, the U.S. Army wanted to expand the
Ogden arsenal and selected a 25,000-acre area
southwest of Tooele City as the site of a depot.
The depot became a major employer in the area
creating an . . . — — Map (db m303007) HM
Tooele Valley Railway Locomotives
Tooele Valley Railway primarily used four steam locomotives
and two diesel locomotives. Until 1955, the railway used steam
locomotives, which needed a huge amount of maintenance to
operate safely. . . . — — Map (db m303003) HM
"On Saturday, the 13th inst. The doors of the Carnegie library will be
thrown open to the public and any citizen may take out books under the rules and regulations of the library. Under the administration of ex-Mayor A. A. Walters, negotiations . . . — — Map (db m303257) HM
Our Honored Dead
1914-1918
Carfield Daniels ·
Willard C. Cowans ·
Eugene B. Isgreen ·
John A. Hogan ·
George A. Greenly ·
George W. Goins ·
Grant Lyman ·
Frank Peterson ·
Angleo Santralla ·
Earl P. Brown ·
Lear E. . . . — — Map (db m303062) WM
This monument has been erected by the Sons and Daughters of the Utah Pioneers July 1999, 150 years after the first settlers arrived in the valley.
The original monument erected previously by the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers in 1925 . . . — — Map (db m303251) HM
This Greek Revival temple-form building was constructed in
1867 using local stone. The belfry, added sometime after 1874, is
Picturesque in style and has lathe-turned posts accentuated by
scroll brackets, a distinctive spindle band, and a . . . — — Map (db m303253) HM
Dedicated to the Two Hundredth Anniversary
of the United States of America
and sponsored by the
Utah American Revolution Bicentennial Commission
and Tooele City Corporation
Built in 1867 as a meeting hall, this building also served
as . . . — — Map (db m303255) HM
This railroad complex was built in 1909. Its historic structures
consist of the Tooele Valley Railroad depot, the section head's
house, a frame maintenance shed, and four period railway cars.
These four cars include two cabooses, a coal car, and . . . — — Map (db m303006) HM
Tooele Valley Railway
In 1909, the International Smelter & Refining Company built
a smelter in Pine Canyon five miles east of Tooele City.
Tooele Valley Railway connected the smelter to the Union
Pacific and Western Pacific railroads west . . . — — Map (db m303001) HM
This memorial is dedicated to the men & women who have served our great nation by Tooele Elks, Tooele City & the Citizens of Tooele County. May 30th, 2005 — — Map (db m303260) WM
Pioneers of Tooele and Rush Valley were
buried here between 1850-1867. A sno plots were
sold, families were required to dig the grave
and use the next burial space. Several bodies
were moved to the new cemetery. These remain:
Adams, . . . — — Map (db m303249) HM
Tooele's Mud Wall
In the year 1854 or 1855 the settlers built a mud
wall most of the way around the town. The wall
began at the corner of West Street and Vine
Street intersection and then south to the south
side of Locust Street (1st . . . — — Map (db m303264) HM
Railroad Repair
This small building was one of the repair shops. Keeping the tracks and signals in good order was vital to safely operating the train. Railroad tracks led up into the building. The museum has a huge collection of tools and . . . — — Map (db m303056) HM
"We struck the stage road in 5 miles. Good water here. Drove on to the summit of Point Lookout. Here we nooned and drove 1 miles farther to water and camped" Albert Jefferson Young, August 9, 1862 — — Map (db m249524) HM
"We were off at seven A. M. and marching 16 ˝ miles camped at Pleasant (or Simpson's) Spring, where there is a mail station, getting into camp about one o'clock. We are now on the eastern rim of the Great American Desert."
William Lee (member of . . . — — Map (db m249633) HM
Foundation in this area mark the site of a CCC Camp Which was operated by United State Government from 1939 to 1942. This camp included a number of buildings: a dozen large barracks, officers quarters, mess hall, recreation hall, swimming pool and . . . — — Map (db m249653) HM
The goal of the Pony Express was to provide speedy and dependable mail service between Missouri and California. Before the first ride, an important task was to develop a shorter route especially across the wild open spaces between Utah and . . . — — Map (db m249518) HM
Both speed and stamina were required of the horse and rider team as they relayed mail back and forth between St. Joseph, Missouri and Sacramento, California in 10 days or less.
Pony Express rider Thomas O. King recalled: "[the Express] . . . — — Map (db m249516) HM
In 1855, U.S. Senator William Gwin of California urged Congress to fund a faster, overland express mail system. Gwin had envisioned a system of horses and riders
which, supported by periodic livery and supply stations, could bridge the
gap . . . — — Map (db m249627) HM
One of the important desert stations on the Pony Express and Overland Stage Route between St. Joseph, Missouri and Sacramento, California. From this point, water was carried for west-bound travelers and animals. The spring was discovered by Captain . . . — — Map (db m249641) HM
Alvin Anderson used stone from the abandoned Pony Express station when he built this cabin in 1893. It was intended for his wife, who died in childbirth before she could live in it. — — Map (db m249637) HM
Descriptions of the variety and number of horses used by the Pony Express became distorted during the course of its history since November 1861. In general, the type of horse used for carrying the rider and mail depended greatly on the region. The . . . — — Map (db m249619) HM
In 1845, it took six months to get a message from the East Coast of the United States to California. By the late 1850s, a half million people had migrated west and were demanding up-to-date news from home. Something had to be done to deliver mail . . . — — Map (db m249623) HM
In 1845, it took six months to get a message from the east coast of the United States to California. By the time it arrived, the news was old. In the late 1850s, a half million people had migrated west, and they wanted up-to-date news from home. . . . — — Map (db m249764) HM
The unique two-story underground building was established in 1870. Shortly thereafter a post office called "Centre" was added. The building was 80 x 100 feet, in some places the lower floor was 20 feet below ground. The excavation was done by . . . — — Map (db m156968) HM
The airmen’s dining hall (building #2515), remains as one of the most complete buildings on their air base. Squadron insignias currently plainted on the walls, are from the military groups using the base after WW II. Military meals were always an . . . — — Map (db m1346) HM
This hangar is the only steel vaulted-roof hangar at the base. Built specifically to house the new B-29 aircraft, it is 200 feet by 228 feet. With offices in the side wooden ‘lean–to’ buildings, there are 53,400 square feet total in the hangar. The . . . — — Map (db m226384) HM
A community, such as the one created by the military in Wendover, wouldnot have been complete without a base chapel for the spiritual guidance of men and women assigned to the base.
Chaplains were needed to assist in the mental and moral . . . — — Map (db m1460) HM
You are looking at building #800, a squadron hangar, built of wood from standard plans for an OBH-2. Four of these hangars were built in 1942 and 1943. Each one faces the airport anchorage apron and has ten rolling doors that opened up to . . . — — Map (db m226382) HM
The salt flats were formed as ancient Lake Bonneville slowly evaporated and deposited concentrations of salt onto this playa. Shorelines carved into the mountainsides are visible to the north along the Silver Island range and extend to the Salt Lake . . . — — Map (db m105238) HM
Standing watch for years, this original tower is a historic landmark for the airport, Working with only radio and runway lighting, air controllers directed the heavy air traffic of the airfield. This tower did not have radar installed during the . . . — — Map (db m1353) HM
On June 17, 1914, the first transcontinental telephone line was completed near this point on the border of Nevada and Utah at Wendover. Construction forces of the Bell Telephone Company of Nevada and the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph . . . — — Map (db m67176) HM
"The roads were gravelly round the end of some high rocks. Barren mountains (Silver Island)." -- Robert Chalmers, July 27, 1850 — — Map (db m105241) HM
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