26 Items Tagged

Mormons

Salt Lake City, Utah

Ensign Peak

In 1847, Brigham Young climbed this hill to survey the Salt Lake Valley and saw a fine place to build a city.

Cedar City, Utah

Old Irontown

Irontown was founded in 1868, as a second attempt to mine iron from the nearby Iron Mountain.

Cedar City, Utah

Page Ranch House

Built at the turn of the 20th century, using bricks made and fired from clay found on the property.

Royalton, Vermont

Joseph Smith Birthplace Memorial

An obelisk marks the farmhouse where the founder of Mormonism was born.

Frog Eye Salad

Don’t worry: This sweet, creamy Mormon potluck staple isn’t actually made of frogs.

Postum

This wheat-based coffee alternative has a cult following.

Territorial Statehouse State Park Museum

The only completed wing of Utah's first capitol is filled with artifacts and odd stories about its past.

Grantsville, Utah

Iosepa Ghost Town

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

Marble Canyon, Arizona

Lee's Ferry and Lonely Dell

This isolated outpost was once the only place to cross the Colorado River for hundreds of miles.

T. A. Moulton Barn

This rustic old building is said to be the most photographed barn in America.

The Sweet Monopoly That Enriched the Mormon Church

A divine revelation led to the sugar beet business.

Beth Ward January 25, 2018

Why Brigham Young University Had a Secret Cola Vending Machine

The complex relationship between Mormons and caffeinated soda.

Natasha Frost January 18, 2018

Funeral Potatoes

A casserole of cheesy, corn flake–topped tubers offers comfort to Mormons in mourning.

The Deseret Alphabet, a 38-Letter Writing System Developed by Mormons

它旨在拼写英语words in a more phonetically accurate way.

Beau Stucki June 21, 2017

Palmyra, New York

Grandin Printing Shop

The press that first printed the Book of Mormon.

Utah's First Federal Surveyor Fled the Territory Fearing for His Life

And helped start a war between James Buchanan and Brigham Young.

Sarah Laskow April 7, 2017

Cedar City, Utah

Nellie Pucell Unthank Memorial

A monument to a survivor of harsh pioneer life, frostbite, and primitive surgery.

Independence, Missouri

Independence Temple

This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.