This is the Place . . . of the First Planting

Where is the present day location of the first planting of potatoes and turnips the day after the Saints entered the Salt Lake Valley on July 24, 1847?

A)                 3^rd South and North Temple

B)                 4^th South and South Temple

C)                 At the current intersection of I-80 and I-215.

D)                 3^rd South and State Street

Yesterday’s answers:

1.      C.   Spanish-American War

George H. Hudson is killed in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War, the first member of the Church to die in combat in a U.S. war (August 24, 1898).

Richard Neitzel Holzapfel et. Al., On This Day in the Church (Salt Lake City: Eagle Gate, 2000), 165.

2.      B.   Brigham Young

April 16, 1918: Richard W. Young, a nephew of Brigham Young, becomes the first Latter-day Saint to obtain the rank of general in the U.S. Army.

Richard Neitzel Holzapfel et. Al., On This Day in the Church (Salt Lake City: Eagle Gate, 2000), 75.