On South Main Street, on the left when traveling north.
A canal was surveyed from Johnson Creek on Blue Mountain to White Mesa; in 1902-3 lots were staked for homes. Two years later Albert R. Lyman and Family pitched first tent and settled one block west of this site. In 1907 a tent school was . . . — — Map (db m95062) HM
On South Main Street, on the right when traveling north.
March 12, 1887 Frederick I. Jones, Farley R. Butt, Charles E. Walton and George A. Adams came here to start the L.D.S. Blue Mountain Mission. After their families arrived they camped at Verdure the first summer. In 1888 the families of M. Peterson, . . . — — Map (db m95124) HM
On Navajo Twins Drive west of U.S. 191, on the right when traveling west.
Bluff was the first settlement of the white man in San Juan County and its first county seat. It was founded April 6, 1880 by the San Juan Mission "called" by the L.D.S. Church to establish friendly relations with the Indians. A small band of . . . — — Map (db m95043) HM
On Utah Route 276, on the right when traveling east.
In 1879 the L.D.S. church sent missionary families to San Juan Country to make settlement and better relations with the Indians. These pioneers led by Silas S. Smith and Platte D. Lyman came through the Hole in the Rock. The company consisted of 83 . . . — — Map (db m173731) HM
Near Utah Route 95 at milepost 101.5, on the right when traveling west.
Mule Canyon Ruin is an open Anasazi habitation site consisting of both above- and below-ground structures. This site was first occupied briefly in the Pueblo I time period (about A.D. 750) but the main occupation was during the Pueblo II and Pueblo . . . — — Map (db m95153) HM
Near U.S. 191 at milepost 110.4, on the right when traveling north.
Kane Springs, San Juan County, was a major water stop along the historic Spanish Trail, in use from 1829 to 1848. Large trade caravans halted here and drank from the abundant spring waters. In autumn months, pack trains carried woolen textiles and . . . — — Map (db m95080) HM
On South 100 West, on the right when traveling south.
This Home was constructed by Joseph Henry Wood between 1916-18 in the Arts and Crafts style of wood and sandstone quarried from a site near south Creek four miles southwest of Monticello. The stone cutting, dressing, and laying was supervised by Ed . . . — — Map (db m95123) HM
On Black Locust Avenue at 5th E Street on Black Locust Avenue.
George Hobbs was one of several single young adults called to participate in the San Juan Mission. He was the only person assigned to all three of the mission's major scouting expeditions.
The first scouting expedition, which established sites . . . — — Map (db m270870) HM
On Black Locust Avenue at 5th E Street on Black Locust Avenue.
Parley Butt, at age 17, participated in the five-month expedition to locate a site for the settlement and a route to it. Upon his return to his family in Parowan, Utah, he and his brother Dick (Willard) Butt journeyed to Bluff with the other . . . — — Map (db m270877) HM
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