Abraham Coon
BIRTH 3 Apr 1810
Madison County, Ohio, USA
DEATH 28 Mar 1885 (aged 74)
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
BURIAL
Salt Lake City Cemetery
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
EARLY MAGNA SETTLEMENTS In Commemoration of the First Communities Established on the West Side of Salt Lake Valley and the First Major Industry of Utah In 1853 Abraham Coon, an early Mormon pioneer, explored a canyon in the Oquirrh Mountains on the west side of Salt Lake Valley. He found an abundance of timber suitable for lumber and also a variety of oak tree the bark of which was useful in tanning leather. There was ample water to power a saw mill and a tan-bark processing plant. Abraham Coon obtained permission to open the canyon for these purposes, established a toll fee for access to the canyon, and used the revenue for the construction and maintainance of the road. The canyon was officially named Coon Canyon. Abraham Coon and his family settled at the mouth of the canyon, and started a farming community that became known as Coonville. This was the first settlement on the west side of Salt Lake Valley and it covered a one-square-mile area south of this marker.
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