Historical Marker
Agriculture
Historical marker location:
Cottonwood Heights, Utah
( Marker can be reached from Big Cottonwood Canyon Road, on the right when traveling south.)
Marker installed: 2013
Big Cottonwood Canyon Trail.
The first permanent non-indigenous settlement in Utah was established by Mormon pioneers in 1847. They founded the city of Salt Lake City and the state of Utah was later admitted to the Union in 1896.