South Jordan’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of South Jordan. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The first known inhabitants were members of the Desert Archaic Culture, who were nomadic hunter-gatherers. From around 400 to 1350 AD, the Fremont people settled into villages and farmed corn and squash. Changes in climatic conditions to a cooler, drier period and the movement into the area of ancestors of the Ute, Paiute, and Shoshone, led to the disappearance of the Fremont people. When European settlers arrived, no permanent Native American settlements were in the Salt Lake Valley, but the area bordered several tribes – the territory of the Northwestern Shoshone to the north, the Timpanogots band of the Utes to the south in Utah Valley, and the Goshutes to the west in Tooele Valley.
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Start South Jordan’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how South Jordan’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo1 archive item has no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewRichard M. Fairbourn Farm, 170 We…: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10South Jordan, decade by decade
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CommonsSouth Jordan UT 20252025
CommonsDaybreak Housing Community2023
CommonsRotating searchlights2018
CommonsBedroom with marine puzzles on wall2018
CommonsSouth Jordan police car, Sep 172017
CommonsSalt Lake County Fairgounds, Aug 172017
CommonsNortheast over Salt Lake Valley, May 172017
CommonsBingham High School Crest HD2016
CommonsSunset Over Oquirrh Lake In Daybreak Utah2015
CommonsSouth Jordan Station clock2015
CommonsSouth Jordan and Foot of Oquirrah Mountains2014
CommonsSouth Jordan, Utah2012
CommonsAnother view of the sunset over2009
CommonsOquirrh Lake at sunrise2008Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Richard M. Fairbourn Farm, 170 West, 11,400 South and it appears here side by side.
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From Wikimedia Commons (14), the Library of Congress (1) and the National Register (3). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.