Near this site, Holladay's first general store opened in 1869 as the Big Cottonwood Cooperative, built by an association headed by LDS Church bishop David Brinton, the blacksmith at the southeast corner of this intersection. Like other local LDS-related retail cooperatives, it was owned by stockholders but regulated by Church policy for the good of the community, reducing the need to travel to Salt Lake City or Murray for supplies. In 1871, after Brinton's son David Branson Brinton was appointed county postmaster, the store also served as the community post office. In 1880, a larger store was built immediately south. The development of this business center grew from roads laid out in the early 1850s throughout the valley. County Road, now Highland Dr., ran here because the nearby broad beds of Big Cottonwood Creek made stream crossing easier for horse and wagon, and an east-west route from Murray, now Murray-Holladay Rd., made this intersection a natural business center. Similar crossroads developed at Holladay's eastern end, where Murray-Holladay Rd. followed the settlers' 1847-48 survey road and Upper County Rd., now Holladay Blvd., crossed it a mile east, creating Holladay's two business centers.