Manti, Utah Pioneers ~ USA
Posted by: brwhiz
N 39° 16.447 W 111° 38.087
12S E 445245 N 4347388
The first settlers of Manti, Utah arrived in November of 1849 and unknowingly spent their first winter sheltering in a rattlesnake den!!
Waymark Code: WMFQ06
Location: Utah, United States
Date Posted: 11/15/2012
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The Daughters of Utah Pioneers Historical Marker, mounted on a large white dressed-stone monument in a small park at the south end of the Manti, Utah cemetery, reads:
No. 32
Erected June 17, 1938
The Manti Pioneers
Under direction of Bishop Isaac Morley 224 Pioneers arrived in this vicinity Nov. 22, 1849. In response to an invitation from Indian Chief Walker to President Brigham Young. Their first homes were dugouts in the south side of Temple Hill. That winter heavy snows, loss of animals, famine and serious Indian trouble taxed their endurance.
The following spring they found they had settled in a rattlesnake den. Several hundred of reptiles were killed. The city of Manti was surveyed and named in 1850.
Manti Camp D.U.P.