On Holladay Boulevard east, on the right when traveling north.
Eastward 200 to 500 yards on Spring Creek's northern side in 1847, 2 or 3 men built temporary winter shelters called dugouts only months after entering Salt Lake Valley in July.
After arriving, LDS pioneers explored the valley and discovered . . . — — Map (db m255710) HM
On Highland Drive, on the right when traveling east.
Here at early valley crossroads in 1851 or 1852, 36-year-old David Brinton established Holladay's first business enterprise, a blacksmith shop, causing this locale to be known as Brinton's Corner. North of Big Cottonwood Creek (today rerouted . . . — — Map (db m254943) HM
On Highland Drive, on the right when traveling north.
This wooded area, named for the Cottonwood trees, was originally located between Big and Little Cottonwood Creeks, from 13th East to the foothills of the Wasatch Mountains. The
Big and Little Cottonwood Canyons were identified by a large Cottonwood . . . — — Map (db m254741) HM
On Holladay Boulevard, on the right when traveling south.
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 . . . — — Map (db m255709) HM
On South Memory Lane, on the right when traveling north.
In 1848, when the first pioneer death occurred in Holladay, the cemetery knoll southeast of here, overlooking lowland watery meadows of a then meandering Big Cottonwood Creek, was selected as community cemetery. Tradition has it that the first . . . — — Map (db m254809) HM
On Holladay Boulevard east, on the right when traveling north.
Nearby in early spring 1848 the first group of Holladay settlers began to build houses, reportedly the first being brothers-in-law 29-year-old
Aaron F. Farr and 27-year-old William H. Walker. Some say the first house was built in April near the . . . — — Map (db m255713) HM
On South 2225 East, on the right when traveling south.
Here in 1853-54 on about 4 acres, Holladay settlers built a fort to defend against possible Indian raids. Fear swept pioneer Utah in the fall of 1853 from a half dozen Indian attacks, primarily in central Utah. Subsequently this fort locale served . . . — — Map (db m255708) HM
On East Murray Holladay Road, on the right when traveling east.
Not many feet from here, Holladay settlers built in 1849 their first church, used not only for Church meetings on Sunday and other days, but also as a school, town hall, and for community socials, such as a dance where the ticket could be corn, . . . — — Map (db m254942) HM
On East 6200 South, on the right when traveling west.
This mill was established on this site in 1878, by Rasmus Christian Knudsen, a millwright and master joiner from Alborg, Denmark. In 1864, he immigrated to Utah with his wife and two small children, walking across the plains, so that his family . . . — — Map (db m272805) HM
The original portion of the wardhouse at this location was completed in 1914, for the members of the newly-formed Brinton Ward. The land was donated by Ensign Woodruff, son of the fourth president of the Church, Wilford Woodruff. Prior to meeting . . . — — Map (db m254738) HM
During the Walker Indian War in 1853 161 settlers on big cottonwood creek built a fort at this location. The fort enclosed four acres, but was not needed as the Indians proved to be friendly. — — Map (db m254949) HM
On South Memory Lane, on the left when traveling south.
Name unknown but surely well-loved was in 1848 the first to be laid to rest in this historic Holladay Memorial Park. The cemetery, second in the valley, was begun under the direction of Brigham Young. The streams, rolling hills and mountain views . . . — — Map (db m254742) HM
On Holladay Boulevard east, on the right when traveling north.
Ross Hame, also known as the historic William Harvey and Sarah Seegmiller
Ross House, was constructed 1922-1923. William Harvey Ross was president
of the Gunnison Valley Sugar Company and a business partner to famed
chewing gum industrialist . . . — — Map (db m255711) HM
On East 3900 South at S 2490 E Street, on the right when traveling east on East 3900 South.
In a deep hollow south of 3900 South, Uriah Nephi Smart built his tannery in 1880. This two story building was thirty feet wide and one hundred feet long. It was built of adobe bricks, which were made from clay taken from a bank north of the . . . — — Map (db m273350) HM
