The city of Salt Lake is home to the Capital of the state of Utah. Salt Lake City was founded in 1847 when a group of Mormon Pioneers reached the mountains of Utah and beheld the Valley of Salt Lake and their prophet Brigham Young exclaimed the famous words “This is the place”. The religious community was fleeing violence from the eastern states and finally settled in the City of Salt Lake to practice their religion in freedom. The United States government prosecuted the people of the state of Utah for their wide practice of polygamy, such practice was abandoned by the church around 1890, and however Salt Lake is still the home of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saint.
The area of salt lake boasted of a economic boom due in part by the construction of the first transcontinental rail road giving Salt Lake City the name of the crossroads of the West. Now the City of Salt Lake has a huge tourism industry that mainly cater to the skiing community. The City of Salt Lake hosted the 2002 Winter Olympics and is it also the most important industrial banking place in the United States of America.
There are many things to see in Utah if you like you can visit Temple Square or the Mormon Tabernacle.
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