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Route of the San Juan Expedition through Utah. The San Juan Expedition (also known as the San Juan Mission or the Hole-in-the-Rock Expedition) was a group of Mormon settlers intent on establishing a colony in what is now southeastern Utah, in the western United States.
The Hole in the Rock Trail (often hyphenated as Hole-in-the-Rock) is a historic trail running east-southeast from the town of Escalante in southern Utah in the western United States. The Mormon colonizers who established this trail crossed the Colorado River and ended their journey in the town of Bluff .
In 1892, Charles Poston named and claimed "Hole-in-the-Rock". [1] Hole-in-the-Rock is a series of openings eroded in a small hill composed of bare red arkosic conglomeritic sandstone. The sandstone was first formed some 6–15 million years ago from the accumulation of materials eroding from a Precambrian granite, long since eroded away.
Carriages at Bluff Fort (see in the background on the roof of the right cabin the original Bluf Fort sign in reverse). The mission assigned to the pioneers on behalf of their leader, Brigham Young, was to make peace with the natives of the Navajo Nation in the area, in purpose to convert them to Christianity and thereby to expand the (what they called) "Mormon Kingdom of Zion". [7]
Hole in the Rock is a narrow and steep crevice in the western rim of Glen Canyon, in southern Utah in the western United States. Together with another canyon on the eastern side of the Colorado River , it provided a route through what would otherwise be a large area of impassable terrain.
Jens Nielson (26 April 1821 – 1906) was a prominent Mormon pioneer, a community leader, and a settler of the western United States.Nielson was one of the Mormon handcart pioneers that traveled across the plains to Salt Lake City under captain James G. Willie.
Fanny were the first all-female rock band to release a major-label album and score a top 40 single, yet they’ve been the victims of almost total erasure.
Piercy Island, also known as "The Hole In The Rock" (and by its Māori-language name Motu Kōkako), is located off the north coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It is at the very northern tip of Cape Brett in the Bay of Islands .