The Brigham Young Monument is a historic monument located on the sidewalk north of the intersection on Main Street and South Streets of Salt Lake City, Utah. It was founded in honor of the colonizers, the governor of Utah, and the president of the LDS Church Brigham Young who led the Mormon pioneers to the Utah Territory in 1847. The base of the twenty-five-foot monument has a bronze figure from India facing east and from a bearded feather trapper facing to the west, both of which preceded the Mormon settlers. On the south side there is a bronze relief of a man, woman, and pioneer child, while another bronze plaque has a list of the pioneers who arrived in the Salt Lake Valley on July 24, 1847, and their equipment.
The Brigham Young Monument was first shown at the Chicago World Fair in 1893. Standing briefly later at Temple Square and then moved to center the intersection of the Main and Southern Temple streets in 1897, where it stood until 1993, when it moved a few yards to the north to the current location.
The monument is the work of Cyrus Edwin Dallin.
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See also
- pioneer of the Mormon cart
- Mormon Traces
- Pioneer Day (Utah)
- Utah, This is the place
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References
External links
- Media associated with Brigham Young Monument on Wikimedia Commons
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