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.

Originally Porter purchased the property along with two partners but eventually after some conflict was able to buy out both his partners.[1]

It was a contract Pony Express station, ten miles south of Trader's Rest station.[2] Rockwell is known historically as the bodyguard of early Mormon leader and Utah settler Brigham Young. The brewery was Utah's first[a] and at its peak made 500 gallons of beer a day.[7][8]

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°29′10″N 111°54′00″W / 40.486°N 111.900°W / 40.486; -111.900) on Pony Express Road.[8][9]

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Footnotes

  1. ^ Listed as the state's first by Salt Lake Tribune[3] and by Beehive Archive.[4] Other sources list Utah's first commercial brewery as Henry Wagener's California Brewery, established in 1864.[5][6]

References

  1. ^ "Hot Springs Hotel and Brewery: Rockwell's Station". 17 March 2025.
  2. ^ National Park Service 1979.
  3. ^ Salt Lake Tribune 2012.
  4. ^ Beehive Archive 2017.
  5. ^ Salt Lake City Weekly 2011.
  6. ^ SLUG Magazine 2008.
  7. ^ Utah Business 2014.
  8. ^ a b City of Bluffdale 2017.
  9. ^ KSL television 2017.

40°28′N 111°55′W / 40.47°N 111.92°W / 40.47; -111.92

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