| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||
![]() |
||||||||||||||
![]() |
||||||||||||||
![]() |
||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||
| |
||||||||||||||
Complete Local Number Virtual Office Complete Toll Free Number Virtual Office For information or to start your
Salt Lake City Virtual Office, Call
Before Mormon settlement, the Shoshone, Ute, and Paiute had dwelled in the Salt Lake Valley for thousands of years. However, these tribes dwelt only on a temporary basis near streams emptying from Canyons into the Salt Lake Valley . The first Caucasian in the Salt Lake area is believed to be the explorer Jim Bridger in eighteen twenty-five, although other Caucasians had been in Utah earlier, some as far north as the nearby Utah Valley . U.S. Army officer John C. Frémont surveyed the Great Salt Lake and the Salt Lake Valley in eighteen forty-three and eighteen forty-five. The Donner party, a group of ill-fated pioneers, had traveled through the Great Salt Lake Valley in August eighteen forty-six. The first Europeans to settle in the valley were the Latter-day Saints on July twenty-fourth, eighteen forty-seven. They had traveled beyond the boundaries of the United States seeking an isolated area to practice their religion, away from the hostility they had faced in the East. Upon arrival, President of the Church Brigham Young is recorded as stating, "this is the right place," later abbreviated to simply "this is the place," after reportedly seeing the area in a vision. They found the large valley empty of any human settlement. Only four days after arriving in the Salt Lake Valley , Brigham Young designated the site for the Salt Lake Temple , intended to be the third temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , to replace the abandoned Kirtland Temple in Ohio and Nauvoo Temple in Illinois . Constructed on Temple Square, in the center of the city, the temple took 40 years to complete, being started in eighteen fifty-three and dedicated on April sixth, eighteen ninety-three. These delays meant that temples in St. George, Logan and Manti were completed before the Salt Lake Temple . The temple has become iconic of the city and is the centerpiece of the city. In fact, the southeast corner of Temple Square is the reference point for all addresses in the Salt Lake Valley .
|
||||||||||||||