Salt Lake is home to many obscure historical figures and events which are fun to research and fun to read about. I have compiled a list of my favorite Salt Lake City History articles from the past year.
- Salt Lake’s infamous grave robber: John Baptiste: Told in three parts, the story of an odd man who stole clothing and casket wood from the recently buried in Salt Lake City. My favorite oddity of the story is the reburial of the deceased clothing into a single grave plot in the City Cemetery.
- Joseph “Jack” Slade: Outlaw or Bad Drunk?: A local legend which may have been completely exaggerated, he now rests in the pauper’s section of the City Cemetery.
- Elijah Abel: first Black man to be ordained into the Mormon Priesthood: Another oddity who now resides in the Salt Lake City Cemetery.
- Salt Lake Original: Coon Chicken Inn: Mentalities of racial equality certainly change through time and Salt Lake was once the home to a restaurant devoted to racial slurs and stereotypes.
- The Anderson Tower: a Salt Lake icon now lost to history: An odd structure built to be a tourist attraction in the Avenues Neighborhood.
- History Tidbit: bounty for dead rats and flies: A strange bit of Salt Lake History, great trivia for parties.
- What is the big deal about Historic Neighborhood designation?: An explanation about local historic preservation laws in response to the Utah Legislature’s Senate Bill 243 (Historic Areas or Sites Amendment)
- Salt Lake’s rural slums of the 1940s: An example of governments wielding power over the economic underclass.
- SLC neighborhood profile: Rose Park: The first neighborhood in Salt Lake to break the tradition of wide and straight streets.
- A History Hero: Brigham D. Madsen, 1914-2010. Simply an amazing man.
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