R. Spence Hines, a pharmacist who made his money in the Tintic mines, constructed this building in 1885 as a drug store and saloon (The Palace) and rebuilt it to its present shape in 1890. Hines was a member of the Independent Order of Old Fellows . . . — — Map (db m149034) HM
Built in 1900 by Henry L. Southworth, this building was known historically as the Southworth Block and originally housed four businesses with a public hall on the second floor. Some of the businesses that operated in this building include the Palace . . . — — Map (db m149032) HM
Abraham O. Smoot and William Paxman became business partners in 1870 and established a lumberyard on what is now the northwest corner of University Avenue and 600 South. The business sold lumber, hay, and coal.
David John replaced William . . . — — Map (db m223683) HM
The Meetinghouse (left) and the Utah Stake Tabernacle (right) as they appeared circa 1885. The baptistry is located in front of the meetinghouse.
Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have gathered on this . . . — — Map (db m149091) HM
In October 1875, President Brigham Young executed a deed of trust to establish an academy. First classes were held in January 1876, Warren N. Dusenberry, Principal. Karl G. Maeser became Principal April 1876 to 1892. First school held on this site . . . — — Map (db m149027) HM
This block is named Brigham Young Academy Square in recognition of its vital history. In 1875, Brigham Young, then President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, founded Brigham Young Academy in Provo, Utah. He appointed a board of . . . — — Map (db m146798) HM
This was the former site of Craghead Field and the location of the Western Boys Baseball Association Little League World Series in 1961. Named after Jack Craghead, owner of Craghead Plumbing, this field was home to the American and Central Boys . . . — — Map (db m149448) HM
In memory of Dr. Barney Clark and his tremendous courage and pioneering spirit.
Dr. Barney Clark dedicated his life to the practice and advancement of medicine from his entry into medical school until his death.
Dr. Clark was a vital . . . — — Map (db m149106) HM
In 1856 this ground was dedicated as a site for Utah Stake Tabernacle. Construction commenced in 1863. Edifice was three stories high, 81 feet long, 47 feet wide, belfry 80 feet. Built of adobe with rock foundation 7 feet at base, 4 feet at top. A . . . — — Map (db m149446) HM
The original settlement at Provo (Fort Utah) was established March 12, 1849 by President John S. Higbee, with Isaac Higbee and Dimick B. Huntington, counselors, and about 30 families or 150 persons, sent from Salt Lake City by President Brigham . . . — — Map (db m149025) HM
The Provo City and County Building, now called the Historic Utah County Courthouse, was built between 1920-1926. Joseph Nelson, the architect, traveled with a committee to the West Coast to gather ideas from other administration buildings, prepared . . . — — Map (db m149096) HM
In 1853, the original four blocks of this cemetery became the final burial ground for Provo Pioneers who were first buried in Fort Field, Grandview and Temple Hill and later moved to this cemetery. Some residents preferred to leave their dead . . . — — Map (db m149101) HM
During the years between 1860 and 1879 this plot of ground was used as a burial place for the pioneers. It was the junction where three farms joined. A child of Joseph Thompson was the first person interred, but as the owners objected to their land . . . — — Map (db m149449) HM
In 1870-72, four rods north of this site, Provo Woolen Factory was built at a cost of $155,000. Main building was stone, 65 x 145 ft., 4 stories high; another was 33 x 134 ft., 2 1/2 stories. A county court house built on this block in 1867 and John . . . — — Map (db m149098) HM
This ship's bell is from the valiant USS Wasatch, flagship of the Seventh Fleet under Admiral Thomas C. Kincaid. the ship is famous for its outstanding service in the South Pacific during World War II.
Official Navy records state that during the . . . — — Map (db m149026) HM
Provo was settled by Mormon pioneers March 12, 1849. East of this monument a second fort was built in April, 1850. It was here that the settlers were threatened with massacre by Chief Walker and his Band of Indians, but were saved by Chief Sowiett's . . . — — Map (db m149444) HM
August 20, 1912, the Board of Education agreed, "That a high school be established in Provo City." The so-called high school began with "one year" then "two years" and then more until it became a four year school. At the close of the school year . . . — — Map (db m149028) HM
In 1868 William D. Startup brought across the plains the tools of candymaking: scales, iron edging bars, drop machine, shears and hooks. After pursuing his profession in Salt Lake City, he moved to Provo and built the first candy factory in 1875. . . . — — Map (db m149100) HM
The Knight Block, designed by Architect Richard C. Watkins, was constructed for Jesse Knight in 1900. The building served as the financial headquarters for the mining, manufacturing, agricultural, and commercial activities for one of Utah's most . . . — — Map (db m149095) HM
Henry Larkin Southworth’s large two-story Octagon House and Store were built on this site in the early 1850’s. John Henry Smith, young son of Apostle George A. Smith, hauled the oversized adobe brick to build the two-feet-thick walls. Artisans, . . . — — Map (db m149030) HM
Settlers of the Utah Lake area, attracted by its sandy beaches, built resorts which provided dancing, boating, swimming and picnicking. The earliest sites and their proprietors were “Woodbury Park” Pleasant Grove 1880, B.W. Driggs Jr., . . . — — Map (db m149023) HM
For the first two decades after its settlement in 1849, a serious problem bedeviled the people of Provo. None of the residents – or the rest of the inhabitants in Utah Territory for that matter – possed a legal totle to the land that they were . . . — — Map (db m223666) HM
William and Warren Dusenberry operated the Timpanogos Branch of the University of Deseret in Lewis Hall, a two-story brick building on the northeast corner of the intersection of 300 West Center. From 1870 to 1875, the school succeeded . . . — — Map (db m223694) HM
Since the late 1850s, the communities of Utah County had held their own local fairs where local products and animals were displayed, but no joint county fair had ever been held.
That changed in 1897 when newspapers announced that Provo would . . . — — Map (db m223691) HM
In February, 1850, militiamen from Fort Utah and Salt Lake City defeated the Timpanogots band of Utes in a pitched battle on the banks of the Provo River near what is now Riverside Plaza.
The Indians who survived escaped from the valley. . . . — — Map (db m223686) HM
Built in 1934, the Superintendent's Residence at the Utah State Hospital is one of over 230 public works buildings constructed in Utah under various New Deal programs during the Depression years of the 1930s and '40s. The construction of public . . . — — Map (db m223822) HM
In 1906, the Junior Class of 1907 whitewashed their graduation year on the mountain east of campus. When other students saw these numbers on the mountain, a massive invasion by the Senior Class against the offenders began. The 1907 date on the . . . — — Map (db m223826) HM
A homemade sleigh-boat once skimmed across the frozen surface of Utah Lake. Hewitt Strong and Elmer Smith, two young, mechanically inclined enthusiasts of Utah Lake, constructed the strange 18-foot-long craft. It consisted of a canvas-covered frame . . . — — Map (db m223620) HM
Two young men from Provo, Hewitt Strong and Elmer Smith, spent much of their free time hunting, fishing, swimming, and boating on Utah Lake. They dreamed of operating a large showboat on the lake. In 1931, they accumulated enough money to begin . . . — — Map (db m223622) HM
Constructed c. 1902 by the owner, Angus G. Beebe. This one-story brick house is a well-preserved example of an early twentieth century house pattern book design. — — Map (db m223823) HM
The Beebe House is a restrained example of the small, pattern-book house of the Victorian era. A comprehensive survey of the city of Provo concluded that it is one of the best of only a few remaining examples of this type. With its arrangement of . . . — — Map (db m223824) HM
A group of about 30 adult men – a few with their families and others with teenage sons – left Salt Lake City on Saturday, March 31, 1849, arriving the next day at the Provo River near what is now Geneva Road and 200 North.
Under the direction . . . — — Map (db m223736) HM
When Provo‘s colonists switched from making log cabins to building adobe homes, lime became a critical product for masons to have on hand. They needed it to make the mortar used in the rock foundations of the larger adobe homes and Provo’s first . . . — — Map (db m223695) HM
Political parties evolved slowly in the Utah Territory. There was little need for them during the first three decades, since The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints controlled elections. Local church authorities selected a slate of . . . — — Map (db m223619) HM
Although there have been lawbreakers in Provo ever since the city government passed its first ordinances in 1850, city authorities did not consider building a large jail in the small community for nearly twenty years.
Utah County built a small . . . — — Map (db m223682) HM
For decades after colonists settled Provo in 1849, the Utah County Court (now called the County Commission) supervised the care of those in the county who suffered from extreme poverty, mental deficiency, or mental illness. Residents of the . . . — — Map (db m223670) HM
This plaza is dedicated to the memory of Charles Edwin and Mary Jane Loose for their generous contribution of land on this block to the Provo School District and the students of the Maeser Elementary School. Shortly after the opening of the Maeser . . . — — Map (db m223774) HM
Fray Francisco Silvestre Velez De Escalante and Fray Francisco Atanasio Dominguez, two Catholic Priests of the Franciscan Order accompanied by their attendants
Don Juan Pedro Cisneros - Lucrecio Muniz
Don Dernardo Miera Y Pacheco - Andres . . . — — Map (db m149097) HM
The Harmon Foundation of New York City gave the money to purchase the ground for this park in 1925 for perpetual use as a public playground.
Provo Post Number 13 of the American Legion was instrumental in obtaining the Harmon grant, members of . . . — — Map (db m223776) HM
This house was built for Reed and Allie Eldredge Smoot in 1892. Richard K.A. Kletting was the architect. Reed Smoot, born in Salt Lake City in 1862, served as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the LDS Church from 1900 until his death . . . — — Map (db m223784) HM
On January 4, 1896, the territory of Utah won its long struggle to become the 45th state of the United States of America. In 1996, in honor of the centennial of that event, each county throughout Utah celebrated with tributes, prayers, publications, . . . — — Map (db m223827) HM
This exceedingly rare Ulmus Americana tree (also known as White Elm or a Weeping American Elm) was planted in 1927 by Moroni Wilford (Roni) Christopherson of Spanish Fork, Utah. Roni was an employee of Utah County for twenty-seven years. . . . — — Map (db m223783) HM
We Will Never
Forget Our Heroes
In Memory of
The Innocent victims who tragically died or were injured, and everyone who suffered especially those who heroically gave their lives in the time of duty on . . . — — Map (db m223737) HM
Provo was blessed with some of the best natural resources in the Utah Territory, yet her economic development progressed at a disappointingly slow pace. Many of the city’s early residents seemed relatively unmotivated and lazy. Overall, the town and . . . — — Map (db m223678) HM
Commercial fishing ranked as one of early Utah’s important industries, and Utah lake’s sucker and trout provided food for Utah’s settlers in times of need.
During the spring of 1848, the new settlers of Salt Lake Valley met hunger face to face. . . . — — Map (db m223735) HM
The huge tree near the pond was here long before Bicentennial Park was created. The Fremont Cottonwood (Populus fremontii) is a fast growing tree commonly found along creeks and washes or within the flood plains of larger rivers. They often . . . — — Map (db m223779) HM
Groundwater has found its way to the surface along the toe of this natural escarpment. This geologic feature lies within the Wasatch Fault Zone and roughly parallels the fault. The smaller seeps have low flows that evaporate or soak into the ground . . . — — Map (db m223782) HM
Several species of shrubs were planted in the wetland to provide a woody vegetation layer valuable for wildlife cover and nesting. Small bare-root seedlings planted early in 1997 included Sandbar Willow, Red-osier Dogwood, Wood's Rose, Black . . . — — Map (db m223781) HM
Provo City identified Bicentennial Park as an ideal location to construct a wetland required as mitigation for a small natural wetland lost to development of the Provo Towne Centre Mall in 1997. Springs provide a natural water source and the mature . . . — — Map (db m223780) HM
Late in July, 1870, two companies of the U.S. Army’s 13th Infantry stationed at Camp Douglas in Salt Lake City arrived in Provo and established Camp Rawlins, a tent encampment on the southern edge of Grandview Hill near where 900 North and 1550 West . . . — — Map (db m223651) HM
Utah Lake was one of the natural resources that attracted Mormon pioneers to the Great Basin. The lake’s waters provided a home for thirteen species of fish, the most commercially useful of which were the Bonneville cutthroat trout, several types of . . . — — Map (db m223696) HM
Provo constructed its first tabernacle on the northeast quarter of the block fronting on Center Street and University Avenue. Selecting its site caused a fair amount of controversy.
When Brigham Young visited Utah Valley for the first time in . . . — — Map (db m223733) HM
A mischievous prank played in 1906 by Brigham Young University‘s Class of 1907 led to the construction of the giant “Y” on the mountain east of Provo.
The pranksters formed the date “1907” on the slope, which enraged the seniors in the class of . . . — — Map (db m223732) HM
Formal education developed very slowly in early Provo. By 1855, only slightly more than half of Provo’s eligible students attended school. It was not until the 1860s that Presiding Bishop William Miller convinced each Provo ward to build its own . . . — — Map (db m223656) HM
Contagious diseases like measles, diphtheria, and small pox reigned among the most dreaded scourges of frontier life. No vaccination for measles and diphtheria existed, and the isolation of the patient was one of the only ways to prevent the spread . . . — — Map (db m223658) HM
Because of cheap land, small farms and a general scarcity of money, there was little need for banks in early Provo. When the city’s economy showed signs of rapid growth in the early 1880, Salt Lake City and local investors joined together and formed . . . — — Map (db m223734) HM
During the 1940s, ice skating flourished on what was then called the Provo Boat Harbor (Utah Lake State Park). Before there was a harbor, however, there were very few safe places to skate on the lake.
In an effort to keep skaters out of harm’s way, . . . — — Map (db m223675) HM
Bishop Andrew Hunter Scott's remains were originally interred on Temple Hill, but they were transferred to this site in 1882.
This monument honoring the entire Scott family, was first erected in 1897. Though Andrew would probably have selected . . . — — Map (db m223778) HM
Provo received its name from the Provo River, and how the Provo River received its name is quite a story.
When Spanish Fathers Dominguez and Escalante visited Utah Valley in 1776, they found it inhabited by Timpanogots Utes. In the native . . . — — Map (db m223624) HM
As early as 1856, Brigham Young and other Utah leaders considered raising silk worms and manufacturing silk cloth in Utah to be a necessary step toward self-sufficiency. Making silk locally would also help reduce the flow of cash out of the . . . — — Map (db m223621) HM
