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Located in central Eastern Orleans County, the Town of Murray was founded April 8th, 1808.
In 1809, Epaphras Mattison settled in Sandy Creek and established a tavern.
The Town of Murray formed from the larger Town of Northampton in 1812.
The first schoolhouse was built in 1814.
In 1814, the NYS Legislature appropriated funds to improve Ridge Road between the Genesee River and Fort Niagara.
The hamlet of Murray, named for the post office, established in 1816, was originally known as Sandy Creek.
The first settlement was probably in 1818, by David Jones and James Stewart from Caldwell County.
Calloway County, was formed in 1822, the 72nd in the Commonwealth.
The development of the Erie Canal in 1825 led to an economic boom that lasted until the last part of the 19th century.
By 1826 Orleans County had separated from Genesee County.
The Pierce Farm on Route 31 west of Hulberton Road was constructed in 1828.
The hamlet of Hindsburg was founded in 1829 by Jacob Hinds.
By 1837, the other Towns were incorporated separately and the Town of Murray’s current dimensions were set.
A pioneer group called the Mississippi Saints arrived one year later and began to develop a scattered settlement in the south end of the valley in the fall of 1848.
Un grupo pionero llamado los Santos del Mississippi llegó un año después y comenzó a desarrollar un asentamiento disperso en el extremo sur del valle en el otoño de 1848.
Written history states that at least 20 families were living in the South Cottonwood area in the 1860's.
La zona siguió siendo agrícola hasta 1869, cuando se encontró un yacimiento de mineral en Park City y se encontró más mineral en Little Cottonwood Canyon.
Construction of the Woodhill Brothers' smelter in 1869 initiated Murray's industrial history.
Debido a la ubicación central de Murray y al acceso al ferrocarril, en 1870 se construyó la primera planta de fundición y Murray se convirtió en la sede de algunas de las mayores plantas de fundición de la región de los siguientes 30 años.
Murray produced the first silver bars smelted in Utah in 1870.
La ciudad recibió su nombre actual de la oficina postal, que cambió oficialmente su nombre de South Cottonwood Post Office a Murray Post Office en 1883 en honor al gobernador territorial y general de la guerra civil, Eli Murray.
The final incorporation committee drafted a petition in 1901 and created an intense campaign on both sides of the incorporation battle.
El comité de constitución final redactó una petición en 1901 y creó una intensa campaña en ambos lados de la batalla de constitución.
Established in 1902, the company mined and cut Medina sandstone at nearly 50 quarries throughout Orleans County and shipped it via the Erie Canal and rail.
Hindsburg Road Bridge, constructed in 1911
In 1911, a State law changed the form of government for cities of the First and Second Class in Utah from the old Council form to the Commission form of government.
Hulberton Road Lift Bridge and control tower, constructed in 1913
The original building owned and operated by Bill Rowe, was constructed in the 1950’s and was primarily known as an African-American establishment.
The smelters continued to dominate the local economy until the close of the ASARCO lead smelter in 1950.
From 1950 to the present, Murray's population has continued to expand and prosper.
Esta forma de gobierno se invirtió de nuevo en 1981.
Times changed, as did the ownership when Skip Chambers, from South Carolina, and Robert Danielson, of New Jersey, bought the business and reopened on April 1, 1983 expanding on the tradition that is The Big Apple Grill and Bar.
The Fancher Road bridge was reconstructed in 1985 and is a non-contributing structure within the National Register Historic District
The present population (31,282 in 1990) is employed in office, service, and industrial jobs throughout Salt Lake Valley.
Disclaimer: Information on this site was converted from a hard cover book published by University of Utah Press in 1994.
Originally located just "south" of town in Puryear, Tennessee while Murray was plagued by the Blue Laws that restricted the sale of alcohol, The Big Apple Grill and Bar moved to its current location at 1005 Arcadia Street in October 2001 after liquor by the drink was allowed in the city limits.
On October 2, 2001 after nearly 20 years in Puryear, Tennessee, Chambers and Danielson moved the restaurant to nearby Murray, Kentucky.
In January 2007 Chambers and Danielson retired and sold their portions of the business to Chambers' son and Apple bar manager, Boone Chambers, and long time employee and family friend Kaycee Cooper.
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