Bingham City Cemetery Veterans Memorial

This memorial stands in the cemetery of a town the mine ate. Bingham was once a bustling canyon city strung up a narrow gulch in the Oquirrhs — saloons, boarding houses, thousands of miners of a dozen nationalities. Then the open-pit copper mine above it kept growing, swallowing the canyon settlements one by one, until Bingham disincorporated in 1971 and vanished into the pit. The cemetery is among the few pieces of it left. Its veterans memorial honors the townsmen who served, from the Civil War through Vietnam — a roll call for a place that no longer exists.

What the plaque says

Bingham City Cemetery Veterans Memorial Civil War, Spanish American War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Bingham Canyon Mine — 4.7 mi
  The largest man-made excavation on Earth
• Saltair — 13 mi
  A haunting lakeside resort with a storied past
• International Peace Gardens — 13 mi
  A hidden garden where 28 countries are represented in miniature
• Liberty Park — 16 mi
  Salt Lake Citys beloved 80-acre urban park since 1882

More markers nearby

• Fort Herriman — 4.0 mi
• Bingham Canyon — 4.1 mi
• Pioneer Rock Church — 4.3 mi
• Wight's Fort Cemetery — 5.8 mi