Brigham Young cemetery, 1970 July 18

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Scope and Contents

Brigham Young's grave site on 1st Avenue. 02:00.

Louise Degn's note: I lived in the Avenues and walked to work at KSL, located at Social Hall Avenue between State Street and 2nd East. At that time, the lot east of the Brigham Young Cemetary was a vacant field and an old wooden staircase connected that field to a parking lot below on South Temple. I'd use the staircase on occassion and was fascinated to see the cemetary because even though I'd lived in Utah my entire life and was raised LDS, I'd never known about this place. I realized most Utahns also didn't know of it either and thought it would be interesting to do a little historical education piece on it. Note how the intersection of South Temple and Main Street looked before Main Street in front of the LDS temple was sold to the LDS church and closed to traffic in 1999. The original voice track for this story was lost and has been rerecorded for this 2002 reconstruction. Original script available.

Dates

1970 July 18

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