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This past April marked the 150th anniversary of when the first stone destined for use in the building of the Salt Lake Temple was hauled from Red Butte Canyon to Temple Square.

Highlights

THE FIRST CORNERSTONE

By Phoenix Roberts

On 2 April 1853j a wagon drawn by fourteen oxen left Red Butte

Canyon and passed through the still-new Great Salt Lake City to deliver a 9-ton sandstone block to Temple Square— the first stone destined for use in the Salt

Lake Temple. On Wednesday, 2 April 2003, the Sons ofUtah Pioneers hauled a replica of that stone from the Historic 10th Ward

Chapel to Temple Square in celebration of that momentous event.

Organized by SUP’s Sugarhouse Chapter, the reenactment began at 8:00 A.M. with a small private ceremony at the Canyon. The University of Utah's Red Butte Garden & Arboretum occupies the site of the former temple quarry, and the staffprovided a small sandstone actually cut in the 1850s, when Red Butte was providing foundation stones for the Temple and many other buildings.

The reenactment parade began at the 10th Ward Chapel, the last pioneer-era LDS Chapel still in use. A new musical group called Firewood entertained the participants and onlookers with period music as the parade assembled. A flag raising and Pledge

COMMEM < -BATING 150 YEARS APRIL 2, 1853

FIRST CORNERSTONE FOR CONSTRUCTION OF THE SALT LAKE TEMPLE /wrzrssr

of Allegiance were led by members of the Mormon Battalion historic society, followed by a short speech from Sugarhouse Chapter member Earl Gillmore, who portrayed Brigham ’feung. Shortly after 10:00 a.m. , the parade stepped off; heading toward Temple Square,

Chapter President Robert Race's daugh¬ ter, Ashlee, and Amy Caldwell led the way with a placard proclaiming the sesquicentennial anniversary. “Brother Brigham" fol¬ lowed in a carriage, joined by SUP National President Louis Pickett. The oxcart fol¬

lowed, accompanied by the marchers in pio¬ neer dress carrying construction tools of the