Pioneer Park Neighborhood
Amy Barry, Stories from Utah’s Cemeteries Database (Part 1 & 2, Reissued)
Date: December 23, 2019 (Season 1, Episode 7 – Part 1: 25 min. & 3 sec. long and Part 2: 26 min. & 1 sec. long). Click here for Part...
Last updated: March 4, 2026
The Legacy of Salt Lake City’s Pioneer Fort
Salt Lake West Side Stories: Post Sevenby Brad Westwood Above photo caption: Utah’s Hall of Relics, built as a small Parthenon replica. Note above the pediment is a smaller replica...
Last updated: March 4, 2026
SLC’s Latinx Population, Environmental Racism: A West Side Story, Past & Present
Date: September 20, 2021 (Season 3, Episode 11; 49:26 minutes long). Click here for the BuzzSprout version of this Speak Your Piece episode. The above image is a screenshot of...
Last updated: March 4, 2026
Japanese Americans on the West Side
Salt Lake West Side Stories: Post Twenty-SevenBy Brad Westwood and Cassandra Clark During the late nineteenth century, Japanese American immigrants arrived in Utah seeking employment opportunities. Initially, many worked for...
Last updated: March 4, 2026
Redlining, Housing Segregation and Environmental Pollution in the Pioneer Park Neighborhood (and beyond)
Salt Lake West Side Stories: Post Thirty-fiveBy Dr. Mariya Shcheglovitova, Emma Jones, Catherine Aviles, and Brad Westwood Unlike other areas that received a grade (A to D) from the Home...
Last updated: March 4, 2026
Salt Lake City’s LGBTQ+ Communities and the Pioneer Park Neighborhood
Salt Lake West Side Stories: Post Thirty-Twoby Brad Westwood Although the LGBTQ+ community had many prior informal political and social gathering spots elsewhere in Salt Lake City, a number of...
Last updated: March 4, 2026
From Pioneer Vanguard to Pioneer Fort
Salt Lake West Side Stories: Post Fiveby Brad Westwood Above Illustration: “Fort on the Great Salt Lake,” researched and rendered by Kirk Henrichsen, circa 1995; used with permission of the...
Last updated: May 14, 2026
Utah’s Expanding Railroads and Salt Lake’s West Side
Salt Lake West Side Stories: Post Nineby Brad Westwood The completion of the world’s first transcontinental railroad in 1869 dramatically affected the social, political, economic, and cultural life of Salt...
Last updated: March 4, 2026
The Old Pioneer Fort’s First and Second Years
Salt Lake West Side Stories: Post Sixby Brad Westwood Above photo caption: Kirk Henrichsen’s bird’s eye sketch of the Fort on the Great Salt Lake, circa 1849, extending from 300...
Last updated: March 4, 2026
Salt Lake City Loses Its “Dirtiest City” Status, the West Side, Public Health, and the City’s Only Surviving Pioneer Square
Salt Lake West Side Stories: Post Fourteenby Brad Westwood It is no surprise that in terms of public health, sanitary reform, and civic improvements, local and state leaders neglected Salt...
Last updated: March 4, 2026
The Pioneer Park Neighborhood’s Warehouse District and a Visit From the Liberty Bell
Salt Lake West Side Stories: Post Elevenby Brad Westwood The Pioneer Park neighborhood underwent several changes related to post-Civil War industrialization. In the late nineteenth century, the Pioneer Park neighborhood...
Last updated: March 4, 2026
Salt Lake as an Early Industrial City and the Beginning of the Relief Society Halls
Salt Lake West Side Stories: Post Tenby Brad Westwood Not long after the members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (hereafter LDS Church, also known as Mormons)...
Last updated: March 4, 2026
