Daughters of Utah Pioneers, Pioneer Memorial Museum in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, United States | Apartments | Museum

Welcome to Daughters of Utah Pioneers, Pioneer Memorial Museum in Salt Lake City, United States.  The Daughters of Utah Pioneers was organized April 11, 1901, under the leadership of Annie Taylor Hyde (daughter of John Taylor) in Salt Lake City. Forty-six women, all of pioneer descent, gathered in her home for the first meeting. At the meeting Annie Taylor Hyde stated that she "...felt deeply impressed with the importance and desirability of the children of pioneers becoming associated together, in some kind of organization which would have for its object the cementing together in bonds of friendship and love the descendants" of the early pioneers. The first formal meeting was held 21 September 1901, although the association was not incorporated until 2 April, 1925. The constitution of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers states that the purpose of the organization is "to perpetuate the names and achievements of the men, women and children who were the pioneers in founding this commonwealth by preserving old landmarks, marking historical places, collecting artifacts and histories, establishing a library of historical matter and securing manuscripts, photographs, maps, and all such data as shall aid in perfecting a record of the Utah pioneers."
Daughters of Utah Pioneers, Pioneer Memorial Museum is noted as the world's largest collection of artifacts on one particular subject, and features displays and collections of memorabilia from the time the earliest settlers entered the Valley of the Great Salt Lake until the joining of the railroads at a location known as Promontory Point, Utah, on May 10, 1869.
As you enter the Daughters of Utah Pioneers, Pioneer Memorial Museum, you literally walk back into history. Here are the belongings of a hardy pioneer people who migrated 2,000 miles west across the plains from Nauvoo, Illinois, and from all parts of the world to seek religious freedom and to build a great city of Zion in the Salt Lake Basin now known as Salt Lake City.