Visitors can journey back in time at Old Deseret Village, a collection of more than 40 historic homes and buildings brought to life by historical interpreters. This is the Place Monument, located in the park, marks the end of the 1,300-mile Mormon trail.
The park offers exhibits, tours, educational programs, demonstrations, and educational and recreational events (including living history events).
The Utah Heritage Foundation is a state-wide preservation organization. Functions include education, advocacy, and financial assistance.
The foundation offers self-guided tours of two historic Salt Lake City streets, interactive guided tours of the Kearns Mansion and the Salt Lake City and County Building, and outreach slide presentations. All of the aforementioned activities were designed with kindergarten through 12th grade students in mind. The website offers teacher's guides and a combined game and virtual tour of the Kearns Mansion.
The Mormon Trials Association is dedicated primarily to the preservation of locations and structures pertaining to Mormon history, as well as promoting communication among Mormon historic sites. Thus, the association spends most of its resources on advocacy, but the association also offers a local tours program.
The association offers self-guided tour guides for local schoolteachers that are designed to provide enrichment for the Utah Studies program in public schools. The website offers information regarding the self-guided tours, as well as general information regarding the society.
Located on 88 acres of land, Fort Buenaventura, established in the 1840s, is the first permanent European settlement in the Great Basin. The site includes reproduction stockades and cabins.
Fort Buenaventura offers exhibits, seasonal mountain man activities, and picnic areas.
The Park City Historic Society & Museum is dedicated to preserving and presenting the history of Park City, UT. Today, Park City is most widely known for its unparalleled winter sports attractions; but Park City also has a deep and intriguing history, represented in exhibits, from early silver mining and western-bound stagecoaches to hosting a territorial jail.
The museum offers exhibits. The site offers an events calendar, historical features, visitor information, and in-depth information regarding current exhibits.
The museum is currently closed for restoration.
Many people - from ancient to recent - have touched Utah's history. We preserve and share their legacy in order to make Utah a better place in the present and future. We can help you through these programs:
Utah State Historical Society:
Utah Historical Quarterly, oral history, and education resources
Research Center and Collections:
Manuscripts, photos, books, maps, and much more
Historic Buildings:
Information and help on preserving buildings
Archaeology:
Info for professionals and others interested in Utah’s ancient peoples
State Historic Preservation Office—Compliance:
Guidance on preservation laws and the review process
Assistance for organizations and governments:
Grants and other tools for preserving heritage
The Society, located in the Centennial Library, seeks to preserve the historical record of Morgan County and its people. The primary function of the Society is to research, discover, collect, and assemble any materials or information which may help establish, interpret, and illustrate the history of Morgan County. The Society collects and preserves biographies, journals, diaries, histories, photographs, and germane materials in its archives. All of these materials are available to the public.
Does not appear to be associated with any specific museums or historical sites.
On September 11, 1857, roughly 120 members of the Baker-Fancher wagon train—bound westward towards California from Arkansas—were killed in Mountain Meadows, UT, by the local Mormon militia and their Indian allies. Once known as a welcoming oasis for wagon trains, subsequent reporting in newspapers and the proceeds of an official government investigation into this event transformed Mountain Meadows into a site of shame. Debates emerged over the causes of the massacre, with some arguing that the members of the Baker-Fancher party had abused local Mormon populations, and others arguing that the killings were largely unprovoked.
This website presents an archive of primary sources surrounding this event. Currently, the website presents 40 newspaper accounts written between 1857 and 1859 from newspapers in Arkansas, Chicago, California, and Nebraska. Eventually, the archive will also include government investigation reports; early Mountain Meadows Massacre histories in Western Americana; Apostate and Anti-Mormon publications; and fiction, drama, and film. Rather than re-hash the facts surrounding the massacre, the website focuses on the creation of documentation about the massacre, presenting primary sources that allow users to explore representations of the event from multiple perspectives.
This site includes digitized versions of 28 Utah newspapers as part of the Utah Digital Newspapers project. Currently, the site contains more than 600,000 pages. Researchers using this digital archive may browse each individual newspaper by issue, or elect to search by keyword, article title, weddings, deaths, and births.
The site also features a map that users can scroll over to determine which counties in Utah had newspapers that are currently archived in this database, and the dates covered.
The collections begin in 1879, and feature PDF versions of the newspapers.
These 1,275 detailed historical maps depict cities in the state of Utah. D. A. Sanborn Company, a pioneer producer of insurance maps on a national scale, designed maps that depicted commercial, industrial, and residential sections of Utah cities. The collection of large-scale detailed maps dating from 1867 through 1969 is an ongoing project, and currently contains maps of 40 cities. Users may download compressed images to view and enhance the maps. Maps are arranged alphabetically by city and date, although the years available for each city are inconsistent.
The maps outline the site, size, shape, construction, and building materials of dwellings, commercial buildings, and factories. In addition, the maps detail building use, sidewalks, property boundaries, house and block numbers, and even the locations of hydrants and wells. The collection presents an opportunity to study Utah history, architectural history, and the development of cartography.