Brigham City Carnegie Library

Brigham City got its library because a newspaperman shamed the town into it. In 1897 Mansfield Snow, editor of the Brigham Bugler, needled his neighbors in print: little Fairview, with 960 people, had a reading room — what was wrong with Brigham's three thousand? The four LDS wards took up the challenge, and by 1915 a Carnegie grant of $12,500 raised this building, one of only three of Utah's Carnegie libraries built in the horizontal Prairie Style. The older library it replaced wasn't torn down; the town rolled it across the street to serve as a house.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Wellsville Mountains — 9.1 mi
  The steepest mountains in North America for their height
• Hyrum State Park — 12 mi
  A family-friendly reservoir at the mouth of Blacksmith Fork Canyon
• Powder Mountain — 15 mi
  The largest ski resort in the United States by acreage — a famously uncrowded "PowMow" now remaking itself under Netflix's Reed Hastings.
• Logan — 18 mi
  A vibrant college town tucked into a stunning mountain valley

More markers nearby

• Box Elder Courthouse — steps away
• Brigham City Fire Station — steps away
• Brigham City Co-op Store — steps away
• Box Elder Academy of Music and Dancing — steps away