Salt Lake City History Minute - Sugar House Monument

Sugar House Monument has long stood as a testament to the hard work the early Salt Lake pioneers did to make the valley sustainable. Learn how it came to be.
Photos of Millard F. Malin are courtesy of the Special Collections Department, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah.

[@mysterieschriscampbell]

it is Aquarius and Virgo though on the statues

[@Tchild2]

$2,000 to erect the monument? $2,000 today wouldn't even pay the costs of printing out the archictural renderings.

[@laryhuls3031]

It’s pronounced bah relief.

[@richardsaunders301]

Hmm. The building was a failed sugar factory. Would have been nice if the monument builders acknowledged that for more than two decades it was also the first paper mill in Utah.

[@danielr4640]

It’s too bad there building lots of building in Sugar House