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Near Interstate 70 at milepost 106, on the right when traveling west.
When the Mormons fled to Utah in 1847, they were looking for a place nobody else wanted. From Salt Lake City, Brigham Young “called” them to colonize towns and cities all over the great West. The last call came August 22, 1877, when . . . — — Map (db m147829) HM
Near Interstate 70 at milepost 105, on the right when traveling east.
In the 1870s, the Mormon Settlers came east across the Wasatch Plateau to the high mountain deserts of Castle Valley and the San Rafael Swell. It was the last place Mormon colonizer Brigham Young called his people to settle. They were seeking new . . . — — Map (db m147828) HM
On North 100 East north of Main Street, on the left when traveling north.
The Emery LDS Church, built 1898-1900, is the oldest remaining religious building in Emery County. The construction technique, a wood frame sheathed with clapboard and lined with adobe bricks, is distinctive and unusual for turn-of-the-century . . . — — Map (db m147830) HM
Near Interstate 70, 9 miles west of Buckhorn Draw Road (County Road 322), on the right when traveling west.
This is outlaw country! Hidden deep in these canyons, Butch Cassidy, Elza Lay, Flat Nose George, Kid Curry, Joe Walker, and others eluded the lawmen who pursued them in the late 1800s. In the 1850s Chief Wakara escaped into these badlands with as . . . — — Map (db m80465) HM
On Utah Route 10 at milepost 15.5, on the left when traveling north.
From 1885 to 1889, the pioneers who located on the Muddy three miles north east from the town of Emery, built in their poverty a tunnel 1200 feet long through blue slate rock to bring water to the town. Their only tools were pick and shovel and . . . — — Map (db m147840) HM
