The Milo Andrus Half Way House stood along South State Street as a comfortable two-story pioneer inn that served the many travelers moving north and south in the 1850-80 period. It became known as the Half Way House because it stood midway between Travelers Rest and 6400 South State and Porter Rockwell's layout near the Point of the Mountain, making it a welcome stop for people on foot, on horseback, in buggies, and in other horse-drawn conveyances. Built in 1859 and the early part of the 1860's, it served as both a hotel and a family residence for 120 years. The inn was actually a project of Lucy Loomis Tuttle Andrus, one of several wives of Milo Andrus. Lucy was a widow with children when Milo married her in 1850 while they were crossing the plains, as he led some Church members traveling from England to Utah. After arriving in Utah, he worked to get them situated, and during the 1850's Milo and his families took part in the Church colonization program, helping settle Green River, Dixie, and Cache Valley in Utah, and Oxfort and the Salmon River country in Idaho. They eventually bought 160 acres in the Dry Creek area of the Jordan Bottoms that included this land on State Street, in what is now part of the community of Crescent. Beginning in 1980, the structure was moved to Pioneer Trails State Park in Salt Lake City after its history was authenticated by the state.