Ensign Peak
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N 40° 42.513 W 111° 48.117
12T E 432258 N 4506713
Marker located on SUP balcony
Waymark Code: WMB1K6
Location: Utah, United States
Date Posted: 03/23/2011
Views: 7
Monday morning, July 26, 1847, the pioneers resumed their secular labors. Although Brigham Young, leader of the pioneer band, was suffering from mountain fever, he directed that exploration work be started immediately, one party being headed by himself. The party left about 10 o'clock a.m.. This party consisted of Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, Willard Richards, Willard Woodruff, George A. Smith, Ezra T. Benson, Albert Carrington and William Clayton. Messrs. Kimball, Woodruff, Benson and Smith had ascended City Creek Canyon several miles the Saturday evening before. The party now climbed to the hills west of the canyon and proceeded northward, the President still riding. "A good place to raise an ensign," he remarked...as the party planted their feet upon a prominent peak near the western edge of the mountainous spur projecting in the valley from the northeast. Ensign Peak, the mountain, was accordingly named, which title it still bears...from the top of the peak the view was more than ever sublime. The "Ensign" in the minds of the Mormon Pioneers concerned not one nation, but all nations; not one epic or age, but all epics and all ages; not nationality but humanity, is its scope and concern. It was the sign and ensign of the Empire of the Christ; it was a prophecy of the time to come when the kingdoms of this world would become "the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ; and he shall reign forever and ever."
Marker Name: Ensign Peak
Marker Type: City
County: Salt Lake
City: Salt Lake City
Group Responsible for Placement: Sons of Utah Pioneers
Date Dedicated: April 21, 1986
Marker Number: None
Web link(s) for additional information:
http://history.utah.gov/apps/markers/detailed_results.php?markerid=2454
Addtional Information: Not listed
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