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Downtown Salt Lake City circa 1913 Salt Lake City suburb, 1909 Armed delivery of liquor & beer, 1917. The Great Depression hit Salt Lake City especially hard. At its peak, the unemployment rate reached 61,500 people, about 36%. The annual per capita income in 1932 was $276, half of what it was in 1929, $537 annually. Jobs were scarce.
Arrival of first settlers in Michigan's first inland settlement; recognized by the state legislature in 1837, and incorporated as a city in 1861. 1818: Medina: Ohio: United States: 1818: Columbia: Missouri: United States 1818 Jim Thorpe: Pennsylvania United States Formerly known as Mauch Chunk and burial place of Native American athlete Jim ...
The family emigrated to the United States when he was a child. They first settled in St. Louis, Missouri before moving to Utah Territory. [3] His artistic talents were encouraged by his parents from an early age. [1] During the trip from St. Louis to Salt Lake City, Utah, he kept a sketchbook of scenery along
1930 L.S. is intermountain director for Safeway, residing in Salt Lake City. 1931 Safeway stores in the U.S. and Canada now number 3527. This would be the largest number of Safeway stores. [11] 1932 L.J. Skaggs opens his first self-service drug store, PayLess Drug, in Tacoma, Washington.
They were seen as a faster, easier, and cheaper way to bring European converts to Salt Lake City. Almost 3,000 Mormons, with 653 carts and 50 supply wagons, traveling in 10 different companies, made the trip over the trail to Salt Lake City. While not the first to use handcarts, they were the only group to use them extensively. [16]
The city, situated on a prominent bend along the Mississippi River, quickly grew to 12,000 inhabitants and was for a time rivaling for the title of largest city in Illinois. By the early 1840s, the Latter Day Saints built a large stone temple in Nauvoo , one of the largest buildings in Illinois at the time, which was completed in 1846.
Heading south and following river valleys southwestward to the valley of the Great Salt Lake, Brigham Young led the first Mormons into present-day Utah during 1847. The Mormon Trail is 1,300 miles long and extends from Nauvoo, Illinois to Salt Lake City, Utah. The Mormon Trail was used for more than 20 years after the Mormons used it and has ...
The Handcart Pioneer Monument, by Torleif S. Knaphus, located on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah The Mormon pioneers were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), also known as Latter-day Saints , who migrated beginning in the mid-1840s until the late-1860s across the United States from the Midwest to the ...