EXPLORE LAGOON: PIONEER VILLAGE TOUR: Salt Lake Temple Builders Monument

 

SALT LAKE TEMPLE BUILDERS MONUMENT

This monument was moved from the original Pioneer Village in Salt Lake along with most of the other buildings in the village.

 

"Sons of Utah Pioneers Memorial to Temple Builders

      Honoring the builders of the Salt Lake Temple who, receiving visions, added technical skill that moulded those visions into a magnificent granite structure; who, with pioneer equipment, coupled with innate ingenuity and fortitude, began in 1859 to quarry granite in Little Cottonwood Canyon; who, with donated labor, hand-drill and sledge hammer, chiseled large granite slabs for teamsters and haulers; who, with oxteams, heavy carts, and broad-wheeled wagons, transported those stones 20 miles to the 'cutter’s block' on Temple Square until the oxteams were replaced by the railroad in 1871; who, with adeptness and acquired skill, shaped those stones to fit their selected niche in the slowly growing temple; who, with the aid of handmade scaffolds and long-poled derricks, placed each stone with exactness in the walls and the six majestic spires…….temple cornerstones laid 6 April 1853: temple dedicated 6 April 1893. This ten-ton, uncut stone was placed in Pioneer Village on 19 July 1958 by the Temple Quarry Charter of SUP as a memorial of sincere devotion, proclaiming the super-human achievements of those intrepid temple builders…….may that for which this rough stone stands stir loyal hearts through many generations."

 

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Updated 31 Jul 2007