First Glacial Park walk-about, September 2015

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Wolf Menssen gives history of early Granite elementary school which included dangerous playground equipment and school lunch consisting of heated Campbell's soup.
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Artwork depicting earliest native America residents of Granite.
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Little Sister Sieverts and Sister Fenton enjoy the walk-about!
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Lujean Morgan grew up in Granite community. She shared stories of her family including having bread and milk for breakfast and how poor they were.
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Brother Stan Morgan shared stories about the old white church on 3100 East where he attended church as a boy. Dancing and road shows were held in the basement. Sunday school and scouts met in the attic area. Stan has fond memories of playing hide and seek on the church grounds. He also learned how to box at a mutual activity in this building!
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Homemade jam, bread and hot chocolate in the Granite Cemetery.
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In 1995, the Sandy, Utah Granite View Stake published a book entitled, Granite - The Story of a Land and it's People.  This book was a labor of love for local long time residents and descendants of Granite pioneers.  This book chronicles the early beginnings of Granite through the formation of the Sandy Utah Granite View Stake.  If you've not had a chance to read this book, ask one of your neighbors.  Chances are they have a copy in their personal library.  If not, it is available through Amazon.com

Granite fun facts

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  • Granite population as of 2000 census, 2,018.
  • 43.7% of households have children under 18 (2000 census).
  • The Median income for a household is 108,343 (2000 census).
  • The Granite mountain record vaults hold 3 billion pages of family history records.
  • Granite began as the site of a stone quarry for the Salt Lake Temple in 1859.
  • Some of the granite blocks weighed up to 5,600 pounds and were first transported by ox-driven wagons to Temple Square.
  • In 1875 property for the first school in Granite was deeded by Joseph and Sarah Despain.  It was also used as a meeting room for church.

Historical photos

Little Cottonwood Canyon granite temple quarry.
Photo attribution:  William Henry Jackson [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Granite record vault - Little Cottonwood Canyon.
Photo attribution:  http://www.lightplanet.com/mormons/daily/family_history/granite_mountain_eom.htm
Watch clip from below of the historical granite vaults in Little Cottonwood Canyon.  Part 2 of this clip is available at:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYkLKAPzCfQ

Places and things to see.

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Winter window by Chad Hansen
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Our ward building by Chad Hansen
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Near sundown by Chad Hansen