Name: Iron Rails & New Roots: Immigrant Stories of Salt Lake’s West Side
Start: 2026-04-11T10:00:00-06:00
End: 2026-04-11T11:30:00-06:00
Location: Salt lake City Centre

$Iron Rails & New Roots: Immigrant Stories of Salt Lake\u2019s West Side$

A guided walking tour exploring how the arrival of the railroad transformed Salt Lake City’s west side into a vibrant, multicultural neighborhood shaped by immigrant labor, faith, entrepreneurship, and resilience.
Beginning at the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Salt Lake City’s historic Warehouse District, this walking tour explores how the arrival of the railroad in 1869 transformed the city’s west side into a vibrant immigrant neighborhood. As rail lines converged near the Rio Grande Depot, Greek, Japanese, Jewish, Italian, Austrian, Basque, and other immigrant communities built churches, hotels, restaurants, boarding houses, factories, and small businesses that reshaped the area into a bustling commercial and industrial hub.