Hot Springs Hotel and Brewery

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Hot Springs Hotel and Brewery was a Utah Pony Express station, inn and brewery founded in 1856 by Porter Rockwell at Point of the Mountain, modern-day Bluffdale, Utah. It was a contract Pony Express station, ten miles south of Trader's Rest station. [1] Rockwell is known historically as the bodyguard of early Mormon leader and Utah settler Brigham Young. The brewery was Utah's first [lower-alpha 1] and at its peak made 500 gallons of beer a day. [6] [7]

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In October 1934, a memorial marker was placed in Bluffdale, incorporating stones from the inn's stable. It was moved at a later date to the present location ( 40°29′10″N111°54′00″W / 40.486°N 111.900°W / 40.486; -111.900 ) on Pony Express Road. [7] [8]

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Footnotes

  1. Listed as the state's first by Salt Lake Tribune [2] and by Beehive Archive. [3] Other sources list Utah's first commercial brewery as Henry Wagener's California Brewery, established in 1864. [4] [5]

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References

  1. National Park Service 1979.
  2. Salt Lake Tribune 2012.
  3. Beehive Archive 2017.
  4. Salt Lake City Weekly 2011.
  5. SLUG Magazine 2008.
  6. Utah Business 2014.
  7. 1 2 City of Bluffdale 2017.
  8. KSL television 2017.

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