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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.
The Utah Territory was created by Congress as part of the Compromise of 1850, and as colonizer and founder of Salt Lake City, Young was appointed the territory's first governor and superintendent of American Indian affairs by President Millard Fillmore on February 3, 1851.
Brigham Young (1801–1877), founder of Salt Lake City, president of the LDS Church [74] Steve Young (born 1961), NFL quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers and Tampa Bay Buccaneers [75] W. Mont Ferry (1871 – January 11, 1938) Former Salt Lake City Mayor (1915-1919) and Founder of Anti-Mormon American Party. [76]
Salt Lake City, often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC, is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. It is the county seat of Salt Lake County, the most populous county in the state. The city is the core of the Salt Lake City Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), which had a population of 1,257,936 at the 2020 census.
The Mormon Pioneer Memorial Monument in Salt Lake City The Mormon pioneers are celebrated annually on July 24 in the State of Utah , known as Pioneer Day . Salt Lake City also has the Mormon Pioneer Memorial Monument , where Young, Eliza R. Snow , and other Mormon pioneers are buried and where a memorial exists dedicated to all who crossed the ...
As early as 2022, Smith and his Smith Entertainment Group (SEG) discussed moving a National Hockey League (NHL) team to Salt Lake City, either via expansion or relocation. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] In January 2024, SEG issued a formal request for the NHL to open an expansion process, stating they were "ready to welcome the NHL" to Salt Lake City. [ 16 ]
In addition to her Salt Lake City-based medspa, Gay is also a New York Times bestselling author after the release of her memoir, Bad Mormon. Unlike other cast members who have either spent years ...
The interior of the Salt Lake Tabernacle as decorated for the Deseret Sunday School Union's July 1875 Pioneer Day celebration.. The earliest precursor to Pioneer Day celebrations in Utah occurred on July 24, 1849, [19] when the Nauvoo Brass Band led a commemoration of the second anniversary of the Latter-day Saints entering the Salt Lake Valley.