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Title
UPTLA #43
Description
Ensign Peak
Creator
Ensign Stake Mutual Improvement Associations and
Utah Pioneer Trails Landmarks Association
Utah Pioneer Trails Landmarks Association
Date
1934
Identifier
UPTLA-043
Curatescape Story Item Type Metadata
Subtitle
Ensign Peak
Story
July 26, 1847, two days after the Mormon pioneers entered this valley Brigham Young and party climbed to this point and with the aid of field glasses made a careful survey of the mountains, canyons and streams. In the group were Heber C. Kimball, Wilford Woodruff, George A. Smith, Ezra T. Benson, Willard Richards, Albert Carrington and William Clayton. Wilford Woodruff, first to ascend the peak, suggested it as a fitting place to “set up an ensign” (Isaiah 11:12). It was then named Ensign Peak. Subsequently the Stars and Stripes were raised here.
Factoid
There are two markers, one at the top of Ensign Peak on the stone monument and a second one at the trailhead. One is a replacement after it was stolen, then recovered 30 years later.
Monument is made from stones from around Utah and the Mormon Trail. Many have names of location stamped on them.
