Settlement of Hatch Historical Marker, Hatch, Utah

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Settlement of Hatch Historical Marker, Hatch, Utah

Known initially as Hatch or Hatchtown, the town was created Meltiar Hatch and his two wives, Mary Ann and Permelia, and their children. It was an order by the Church of Latter-Day Saints leaders to settle the Dixie Mission. The three thought they were in Utah, but redrawn boundary lines had put the settlement in Nevada.

After discussions with Brigham Young,  everyone decided to move back to Utah. The first move was to Panguitch in South Utah. Later, the family moved 20 miles to the south where Mammoth Creek connects with the Sevier River. Other settlers also began moving into the area. The Hatch home was the central location of both LDS worship and school sessions. This is why the town was named Hatchtown.

In the early 1900s, The Upper Sevier Reservoir Company decided to build a dam despite the fears of the community. In 1903, the dam broke. It was rebuilt, and then the dam broke again in 1914. During the second dam break, many homes were destroyed, and people were left homeless. This was one of the reasons that the town was moved one and a half miles south of the original location. The town of Hatch was incorporated on January 3, 1934.

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In 1872 Meltiar Hatch settled at the head of the Sevier River, near the junction of Mammoth and Asay Creeks. He engaged in stock raising and operated a water-power sawmill. Soon other settlers came. Land was surveyed and irrigation ditches dug. Lime was burned by Neils P. Clove. First school was in the Hatch home, Abram Workman teacher. 1888 the Asay post office was transferred to Hatch, Neils Ivor Clove, Postmaster. In 1892 the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints organized Mammoth Ward, Aaron Asay, Bishop. 1899 the Ward name was changed to Hatch. 1901 to 1904, the town was moved to the present site under the leadership of Bishop Rosmus Lynn.

Erected by The Daughters of Utah Pioneers in 1964, No. 292

Location

37° 38’ 59.280” N, 112° 26’ 4.482” W
2–24 W Center St, Hatch, UT 84735, United States

Emigrant Road, Jerome, ID

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Emigrant Road Historical Marker, Jerome, ID

Known as the Emigrant Road, this route was favored by the Hudson’s Bay Company during the mid-1800s. The road ran from Snake River in the north to South-Central Idaho. As an alternative to the Oregon Trail, which tended to be difficult, the Hudson’s Bay Company traders used it to go between Fort Hall and Fort Boise.

Emigrants, on the other hand, had to take a route further south since the road was not initially designed to allow for wagons. With later improvements, emigrants would be able to use this route.

There is a dispute amongst historians as to whether this road was part of the North Alternate to the Oregon Trail, which would have made it part of the Oregon Trail System.

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More than a century ago, fur trappers and emigrants followed an old Indian trail that crossed here on its way to Oregon.

Hudson’s Bay Company traders preferred this route between Fort Hall and Fort Boise, but early emigrant wagons had to travel a road south of Snake River until ferries and road improvements let wagons come this way. Shoshone Falls — known until 1849 as Canadian Falls to British and French trappers — was a spectacular attraction along this road.

Location

42° 37’ 13.032” N, 114° 26’ 57.978” W
US-93 N, Jerome, ID  83338, United States

Avart-Peretti House, New Orleans, Louisiana

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Avart-Peretti House Historical Marker, New Orleans, Louisiana

While built as a home in 1842 for Mme. Augustine Eugenie de Lassize, the Avart-Peretti House is most known as the location where Tennessee Williams wrote A Streetcar Named Desire. Williams made frequent visits to New Orleans, first coming to the city in 1938. And it was in New Orleans that he renamed himself Tennessee. 

According to reports, the Avart-Peretti House was said to be Williams’s favorite place to stay. In this location, he was close to the Desire streetcar line, and the house was even the inspiration for the fictional home in the play.

The house was also the home of sculptor Achille Peretti from 1906 to 1923. Hailing from Italy, the artist eventually became an American citizen.

The house is currently not open to the public.

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Erected 1842 as a two-story house for Mme. Augustine Eugenie de Lassize widow of Louis Robert Avart J.N.B. de Pouilly and Ernest Goudchauz architect-builders

From 1906 through 1923 it was the residence and studio of the artist Achille Peretti

During 1946 and 1947 Tennessee Williams lived here and wrote “A Steetcar Named Desire”

John Phillips Marker, Fort Laramie, Wyoming

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John Portugee Phillips Historical Marker, Fort Laramie, WY

This was the ending point for John “Portugee” Phillips’s great 236-mile ride from Fort Phil Kearney to Fort Laramie. After the attack by Red Cloud on Fort Kearney, the fort was low on men and military equipment. U.S. Colonel Henry B. Carrington had been in charge of the fort. He asked for a volunteer to make a ride to request reinforcements from the nearest fort – which was Fort Laramie.

The ride was not easy. There was a blizzard, and it was extremely cold. Yet, Phillips managed to successfully make the ride in two days and get to Fort Laramie on Christmas night. Phillips’s horse died from exhaustion.

Read this for a full background on the massacre and the ride it inspired.

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Here on December 25, 1866
John (Portugee) Phillips
finished his 236 mile ride
to obtain troops for
the relief of Fort Phil Kearny
after the Fetterman Massacre.

Dedicated by the Historical Landmark Commission of Wyoming
1940

Location

42° 12’ 9.660” N, 104° 33’ 29.430” W

Fort Laramie National Historic Site, Fort Laramie, WY  82212, United States

Jefferson Parish Historical Marker, Louisiana

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Jefferson Parish Historical Marker, Louisiana

Established in 1825, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, was named after Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson was instrumental in the Louisiana Purchase, where the burgeoning United States purchased the territory from France in 1803.

From at least the 1600s, the area was home to Native American tribes. Other groups that called the area home included the Germans, Spaniards, Africans, Italians, Acadians and more.

Prior to 1874, the parish borders stretched from St. Charles Parish to Felicity Street in New Orleans. As Orleans Parish grew, however, it annexed areas of Jefferson Parish. The current borders were redrawn to their current location in 1874.

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On Feb. 11, 1825, Governor Henry S. Johnson signed legislation creating the Parish of Jefferson out of the Third Senatorial District. It is named for President Thomas Jefferson, who died the following year, July 4.

Location

29° 58’ 23.988” N, 90° 8’ 26.030” W

1373–1379 Airline Dr, Metairie, LA  70001, United States

Lancaster Trading Post, Fort Laramie

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Fort Platte Trading Post Historical Marker Wyoming

Located approximately one mile from Fort Laramie (formerly known as Fort William), Fort Platte was built by fur trader Lancaster Lupton. Lupton made the post as a competitor to Fort William, and he had previously created Fort Lupton in Colorado. So, Lupton already had a system in place to make these types of ventures successful.

Despite the fort being successful, Lupton had to sell it to Pratte & Cabanne in 1843 due to his own debts. It was eventually abandoned within a few years of the sale.

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A Trading Post Built By
Lancaster P. Lupton
in 1841,
Stood Fifty Yards to the
North.

Placed By
The Historical Landmark Commission
Of Wyoming
July 1951

Location

42° 12’ 33.210” N, 104° 32’ 15.300” W

1218–1286 WY-160, Fort Laramie, WY  82212, United States

The Oregon Trail – Cold Spring Camping

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Cold Spring Camping Ground Historical Marker, Guernsey, WY

The Cold Springs campground was a major camping spot along the Oregon-California-Mormon Trail. The marker indicates not only the spot where emigrants stopped. It also indicates the rifle pits that soldiers used to protect the area.

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The Oregon Trail

1841

Cold Spring Camping Ground. Rigle Pits On Brow Of Hill 500 Feet North

Erected by the Historical Landmark Commission of Wyoming

1943

Location

42° 16’ 1.470” N, 104° 47’ 25.680” W

1251 US-26, Guernsey, WY  82214, United States

Pocahontas Mounds Historical Marker 1, Flora, Mississippi

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Evolution of the Pocahontas Mounds Flora Mississippi

Consisting of two mounds (Mound A and Mound B), they were built by Native Americans from around 1000 to 1300 AD.  Atop the mounds would have been a building. On Mound A, it would have either been the chief’s residence or a temple. There was also a village that surrounded the mounds. It appears that the mounds were built over time, ranging from the Coles Creek to the Plaquemine periods.

While Mound A is maintained by the Mississippi Department of Transportation and is part of a park, Mound B is not part of the park. Both mounds are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Pocahontas Mounds Historical Marker 1 Flora, MS

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Built and used between A.D 1000 and 1300, this platform mound and a nearby burial mound mark the ceremonial and political seat of a regional chiefdom of the Plaquemine culture. A thatched, clay-plastered ritual temple or chief’s lodging stood atop this mound. Dwellings of villagers occupied surrounding fields.

Location

32° 28’ 14.112” N, 90° 17’ 17.598” W

US-49 N, Flora, MS  39071, United States

McAllister’s Mill Historical Marker

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McAllister's Mill Historical Marker

A ruin located on the Gettysburg Battlefield, it was a significant stopping point on the Underground Railroad (UGRR). Said to have been built by James Getty and another person in 1790, in 1836, it became the meeting ground of a group of men whose fathers had fought in the War of Independence. They were there to celebrate the Fourth of July.

Here, the men organized, and James McAllister was named the mill owner and chair. The men passed several resolutions, including ones around freeing the slaves. The Star & Republican Banner, a Gettysburg newspaper, named the meeting the “Anti-Slavery Meeting at McAllister’s”. Over the years, the Anti-Slavery Society became more influential, and many members began helping slaves from Maryland to escape to the North.

During the Battle of Gettysburg, McAllister’s property was caught in the fighting, and many soldiers were buried on the grounds. Little remains of the mill, and it is privately owned.

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At their grist mill on nearby Rock Creek, James McAllister and his family provided temporary shelter to hundreds of fugitive slaves. Now in ruin, it was part of one of the earliest UGRR networks through which freedom seekers passed on their way north. It was the site of a significant gathering of abolitionists on July 4, 1836, that led to the formation of the Adams County Anti-Slavery Society, an early and influential abolitionist organization.

Location

39° 48’ 25.872” N, 77° 13’ 0.030” W

1382–1398 Baltimore Pike, Gettysburg, PA  17325, United States

Sahuaro Ranch Historical Marker, Glendale, AZ

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Sahuaro Ranch Glendale, AZ

Sahuaro Ranch is a 17-acre ranch that has been preserved by the City of Glendale. William Bartlett was 36 years old in 1886 when he came from Peoria, Illinois, to invest in the ranch located north of Phoenix. He and his brother Samuel purchased 640 acres under the Desert Land Act of 1877.

Being able to homestead in the area only became possible after the creation of the Arizona Canal, which was completed in 1885, opening up the Salt River Valley to agriculture. Bartlett was a successful rancher, growing everything from fruit to grain to cotton. The ranch itself was well-landscaped with rose bushes, palms and many other types of plants. The ranch also raised cattle, hogs and bulls.

By 1887,  the Adobe House, a horse barn and a blacksmith shop was on the property. The fruit orchard also expanded in 1890, including olives and oranges. These were some of the first grown in the area. The Guest House was built in 1898 by J. L. Silsbee, a Chicago architect who was an employer of Frank Lloyd Wright.

The ranch thrived throughout the 1900s, with other owners, including P.E. Bradshaw and Richard W. Smith. By the 1970s, much of the ranch had been sold off. The City of Glendale purchased the remaining 80 acres in 1972 and converted it into a park and historical area and other facilities.

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Sahuaro Ranch Historical Marker, Glendale, AZ

National Register of Historic Places
Listed March 7, 1980
United States Department of the Interior

Sahuaro Ranch was one of the first farms in the Glendale area and a reminder of Glendale’s agricultural beginnings. Started by wealthy Illinois businessman William H. Bartlett in 1886, the ranch was a commercial operation and became known as the “Showplace of the Valley.” Ranch owners, including Bartlett, produced fruit, grains and cotton, ranched cattle, raised horses and operated a dairy. As farms gave way to houses, the City of Glendale purchased the remaining parts of the ranch in 1977. The City preserved 17 acres of the original ranch along with 13 buildings and a historic landscape of trees and irrigation ditches.

Location

33° 34’ 31.488” N, 112° 11’ 18.870” W
Sahuaro Ranch Park, Glendale, AZ  85302, United States