Hot Springs Hotel and Brewery

Hot Springs Hotel and Brewery was a Utah Pony Express station, inn and brewery founded in 1856 by Porter Rockwell at Point of the Mountain, modern-day Bluffdale, Utah. It was a contract Pony Express station, ten miles south of Trader's Rest station.[1] Rockwell is known historically as the bodyguard of early Mormon leader and Utah settler Brigham Young. The brewery was Utah's first[lower-alpha 1] and at its peak made 500 gallons of beer a day.[6][7]

Newspaper advertisement for Hot Spring Brewery at Point of the Mountain, 1859

In October 1934, a memorial marker was placed in Bluffdale, incorporating stones from the inn's stable. It was moved at a later date to the present location (40.486°N 111.900°W / 40.486; -111.900) on Pony Express Road.[7][8]

See also

Footnotes
  1. Listed as the state's first by Salt Lake Tribune[2] and by Beehive Archive.[3] Other sources list Utah's first commercial brewery as Henry Wagener's California Brewery, established in 1864.[4][5]

References
  1. National Park Service 1979.
  2. Salt Lake Tribune 2012.
  3. Beehive Archive 2017.
  4. Salt Lake City Weekly 2011.
  5. SLUG Magazine 2008.
  6. Utah Business 2014.
  7. City of Bluffdale 2017.
  8. KSL television 2017.
  • Evan Sawdey (June 6, 2008), "History of beer in Utah", SLUG Magazine
  • Stephen Speckman (October 2, 2012), "Bar Exam: Crawling through Utah's beer history", Salt Lake Tribune
  • Randy Harward (August 24, 2011), "Utah Brewing Timeline", Salt Lake City Weekly
  • Evelyn Hatch (August 21, 2017), 6 historical places to visit in the Salt Lake Valley before summer ends, KSL-TV
  • Megan van Frank; John Christensen (2017-08-25), "Brewing liquid bread", Beehive Archive, Utah Humanities Council
  • About Bluffdale - History - Orin Porter Rockwell, City of Bluffdale, Utah, retrieved 2017-11-08
  • Devin Felix (July 3, 2014), "Utah's Beer and Wine Industry is Heating Up", Utah Business
  • "Rockwell's (Orin Porter Rockwell's) Utah No. 10 Contract Station", The Pony Express Stations of Utah in Historical Perspective, Bureau of Land Management, 1979 – via National Park Service (section 2a)

40.47°N 111.92°W / 40.47; -111.92

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