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Show J F St. George DUP Museum Full of Relics i By Jessie K.Empey I The dead friends live and J ; always will; Their- presence ' hovers round us still. In sacred J . memories below Still live the ' i friends of long ago.-Edgar A. I ; Guest. I I The Daughters of Utah I Pioneer Memorial Hall is located at 140 North, 100 East, j I in St. George, Utah. It was I ji donated to the Washington I ;! County chapter of the DUP by ! one of the eminent descendents of thebixie Cotton Mission , pioneers of Latter-Day Saints in I ;i dedicatorial services held June j 17,1938. J Known as the most difficult J i sections of the great Territory 1 : of Desert to subdue.the I ! missionaries, who arrived here I in the fall of 1861, were hand I I picked by Brigham Young, as 1 : were the Indian Missionaries 1 that were called to settle in the I now Southwestern Utah to i make friends with the Indians I ! prior to their colonization ef-I ef-I forts. I MrS- Hortens McQuarrie I Wlum donated the structure as a memorium to those pioneers and her own Scottish descendents, descen-dents, the Robert Gardners and Hector McQuarries. ! Residing at that time in New j York City, Mrs. Odium hired j the services of Mr, Walter Jago, 1 j ' ""ted architect of that city to ! , provide the plans and ' j j specifications and the structure j was contracted to two local J I , builders, David Woodbury and 1 ' Evan Cottam. . The building measures forty-five forty-five (45) by fifty-five (55) feet, with walls of red brick and white mortar. A full cement basement provides a roomy auditorium. A well furnished kitchen, rest room and furnace room which is enclosed in fireproof fire-proof walls. Beautiful circular stairway leads from the basement to the upper hall. The main floor has one large double room extending ex-tending the full length of the building for housing relics and pictures. Two smaller corner rooms opposite the entrance hall, ar also used for displaying relics. In the hall is the Bronze Plaque honoring the donor's four pioneer ancestors, Hector and Agnes Gray McQuarrie and Robert and Mary Ann Can-Gardner, Can-Gardner, as well as all other Utah pioneers who, with them settled this Dixie Country. As our Mormon pioneers are In essence a "melting pot of the world" so also Is the homeland they created out of the rugged West, their Melting Pot of Golden treasurers, earthly treasures some of them actually ac-tually carried with them in handcarts from areas that always remained to them "dear to their hearts." Through the months of June to September, visiting hours are held at the museum weekly from 7 to 9 p.m. In this way travelers from foreign nations which in many cases were homelands to the pioneers may be able to relax and visit |