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DEFINITION OF "SALT LAKE CITY" Several suburbs and incorporated cities surround Salt Lake City itself in Salt Lake County, Utah . These are often called "Salt Lake City", and they use the same road coordinate system Origin ating on the southeast corner of Temple Square . This article is concerned only with the buildings and sites in Salt Lake City proper and some areas immediately adjacent. NEIGHBORHOODS AND AREAS Several areas within the city proper are named. The Avenues neighborhood is so-called because the smaller blocks in this old residential neighborhood are bound by sequential Avenues and Streets named after Alphabetical letters, not the regular coordinate system streets used elsewhere in the city. Federal Heights gets its name because it was originally settled by federal troops who observed the Latter-day Saints from above the city at Fort Douglas on the eastern benches. Sugar House , a pedestrian-friendly neighborhood, was to be the site of a Sugar Beet Sugar Mill in the early 1850s . Rose Park is on the west side of Salt Lake City. The west side, considered either west of the railroad tracks or west of State Street, is often thought to be the poorest area of Salt Lake City. Currently Rose Park is among the most racially diverse areas having a large population of Latino and Pacific Islander Immigrant s.
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BUILDINGS Religious, particularly LDS buildings, are prominent in Salt Lake City. Settled by Brigham Young and 147 other Pioneer s on July 24 , these Latter-day Saint s were fleeing persecution after the death of their first leader Joseph Smith, Jr. Young originally intended the city and territory to a religious Theocracy . Although the government has long been secular, and even though less than 50% of residents in Salt Lake City are LDS, the city has an unusual number of religious buildings. It's the headquarters of the Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints , so can be considered a kind of holy city. As the largest single landowner in the city, the LDS Church also has been very influential throughout its history. Unless noted, all of these buildings are in or around downtown Salt Lake City. Religious LDS
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