I have to do a project on the state of utah. i need 3-5 historical facts 3-5 state symbols 3-5 fun facts & 3-5 state events. So Far I Have: Capital: Salt Lake City Fun Facts: State Song: "Utah, We Love Thee" Nickname: Beehive State Utah is one of twenty nine states where a united states president has never been born State Symbols: State Flag (Im gonna print a pic) State Tree: Blue Sprice State Flower: Sego Lily State Bird: Seagull Historical: Salt Lake City was founded by Mormon pioneers in 1847 Achieved Statehood January Fourth 1896 Places To See: Arches National Park Bryce Canyon Lake Powell Zion National Park *Okay thats all i have. if i have any wrong info please correct me,& if you could comment with some fun facts& some state events that would be greeat! Thanks, Brittanyy.|||I'm a NonMormon that lives in Salt Lake City and know a bit about Utah. One fun fact that people who do not live in Utah always assume that polygamy is still practiced here. I know that because I have left UT and moved elsewhere and people always make jokes about a Mormon man having a bunch of wives. I try to correct the misconception, by saying that the only way that UT was allowed to become a state in the USA was if made polygamy against the law...which they did and UT became a state over a 100 years ago. But people have this misconception, rightly so, because of tv shows like Big Love and Sister Wives which show polygamy. Sister Wives people are now feeling the legal repurcussions in UT. Also, a state holiday in Utah is Pioneer Day on July 24th. There is a big Days of '47 Parade and other events. It commemorates the day that the Mormon pioneers moved out west and entered the Salt Lake Valley in 1847. About 2/3rds of the state of Utah today is Mormon.|||When Brigham Young came over the mountain and saw the UT valley, he said "This is the place." and so the Mormons settled there. The seagul miracle. The Mormons were planting their first crop when the grassoppers were eating it and the Mormons were trying to save the drop. Seaguls suddenly appeared to eat the grasshoppers and save the crop. Most busineeses still close down on Sunday. Alcohol is still not sold in UT supermarkets.|||Bonneville Salt Flats, in the NW part of Utah, are a popular site of attempting world land speed records. Promontory Point in 1869 was the site of the joining of the Western Pacific and union Pacific railroads, thus becoming the first transcontinental US railway.

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