Holladay Utah Historical Information

In July of 1847, a group of young pioneers called the Mississippi Company, who were led by John Hollady, made their way into Utah's Salt Lake Valley.

Within a very short time of their arrival, they had explored the area and discovered the spring fed stream, named it Spring Creek, and liked the area.
While most of their group left the area in the winter, returning to the fort in Great Salt Lake, several of them built small lean to homes, or dugouts and stayed the winter through.

The area where they stayed became the first village to established away from the Great Salt Lake City, and when spring arrived, several of the families hurried back to build their homes here and make a place for themselves.

The wide array of springs and other sources of water such as natural ponds, the grass and wild plants, including the flowers made it quite a desireable area, and when John Hollady was named as the churches president for this branch, the village began to be called Holladays Burgh, or Holladays Settlement.

As the homes went up, so too did the industry and things began to grow, new settlers came and went, new businesses grew up, a mercantile, blacksmith shop and
orchards began to be planted.

The Holladay and Cottonwood communities were unincorporated areas of Salt Lake County and the City of Holladay was officially incorporated on November 30, 1999.