First Company of Pioneers into the Valley

The first company down Emigration Canyon in July 1847 was not a great migration — it was an advance party of 148 people, including three women and two children, sent to find whether the Salt Lake Valley could be lived in at all. This Sons of Utah Pioneers marker, placed in 1987, names that vanguard company. Everything that followed — the tens of thousands who came after, the city, the state — rested on the judgment of that small, exhausted group that this difficult basin would do.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• This Is The Place Heritage Park — steps away
  A living history village at the mouth of Emigration Canyon
• Natural History Museum of Utah — 0.8 mi
  A world-class museum built into the foothills above Salt Lake City
• Red Butte Garden — 1.1 mi
  A 100-acre botanical garden with panoramic valley views
• Emigration Canyon — 2.0 mi
  The final stretch of trail the Mormon pioneers took into the valley

More markers nearby

• This is the Place State Park — steps away
• Eyes Westward Statue — steps away
• Bodil Mortensen Statue — steps away
• Angels Are Near Us — steps away