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Show Old Ten' Dies, S H Pk. Born A long ago dream became an actual fast this week when Utah turned over the old state penitentiary peniten-tiary site to Salt Lake City and County. And with the transaction, Sugar House moved into the realization of its dream of a great 100 acre historical, educational and recreational recrea-tional park of its very own. Secretary of State F. Lamont Toronto turned the key to the property over to Mayor Earl L. Glade as John F. Dugan, chairman of the Utah board of corrections, stepped down from the management manage-ment of the old prison. Horace A. Sorensen, civic leader and chairman of the committee in charge with planning and formulating for-mulating this historical and cultural cultur-al center, has assembled thousands of pioneer relics and momentos which will be placed in the Mor- Contlnued on Page 0 OLD PEN DIES Continued from Page l mon Pioneer Village, theme point of this park. He with Mayor Glade, County Commissioner Adiel F. Stewart, Chairman Dugan and State Senator Sena-tor Elias L. Day were speakers at the ceremony at which the transfer trans-fer of the property was made. The transfer included ISO acres of the prison site, but after a new Sugar House high school has been established on about 40 acres, and roads and rights-of-way have been provided, the park will be only about 100 acres in size. Sorensen expressed favor to patterning pat-terning the Sugar House park after the old and historical Stur-bridge Stur-bridge village, located 50 miles southwest of Boston, rather than Michigan's Greenfield village near Dearborn. Most of these historical parks, he said, have about 200 acres, but because of the fine terrian, the natural landscaping, the water rights and the soils of Sugar House, the 100 acres should be sufficient to build a representative and authentic Mprmon Pioneer Village. He pointed out that more than 20,000 automobiles daily pass by the old prison site, and these tourists would do much to maintain this village once it is established. 1 |
