This is the Place Monument, Bronze and granite monument in This Is the Place Heritage Park, Salt Lake City, United States.
This Is the Place Monument is a 60-foot-tall granite and bronze sculpture group, 86 feet long, made of three pedestals with two stelae between them. On the central pedestal stand Heber C. Kimball, Brigham Young and Wilford Woodruff; below them reliefs show nine riders, and at the base Orson Pratt on horseback and Erastus Snow raise their hats.
Constructed between 1939 and 1947 by sculptor Mahonri M. Young, this monument commemorates the arrival of Mormon pioneers in Salt Lake Valley in July 1847. It replaced earlier markers on the site that had been erected decades before to mark the same historical moment.
The monument's name comes from Brigham Young's July 24, 1847 statement, "This is the right place, drive on." That date is now Utah's Pioneer Day. The central pedestal carries the inscription "This is the Place," and the base quotes Isaiah 2:2 and 35:1, ending with "Hosanna! Hosanna! Hosanna! To God and the Lamb! Amen! Amen! Amen!"
The monument sits at the foot of the Wasatch Range near Emigration Canyon, with views of surrounding ridges and valleys. The site has open paths for walking and is straightforward to reach, whether approaching from above or entering through the park grounds.
The monument was carved between 1939 and 1947 at Weir Farm in Connecticut, not in Utah, by Mahonri M. Young, a grandson of Brigham Young, with Spero Anargyros as chief assistant. Young received $50,000 for the commission in 1939. The finished work was dedicated on July 24, 1947, before nearly 50,000 people.
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