Brigham Young's Forest Farmhouse

Brigham Young was not only a prophet and territorial governor but a working farmer and experimenter, and the Forest Farm was his agricultural laboratory southeast of the city — a place to test crops, livestock, and even silk culture for the whole settlement to learn from. This Gothic-windowed farmhouse, built in the 1860s to serve it, was later moved to this heritage park and restored. It's a useful corrective to the marble image of Young: the same man who directed an empire also wanted to know which mulberry trees would feed silkworms in Utah.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• This Is The Place Heritage Park — 0.4 mi
  A living history village at the mouth of Emigration Canyon
• Natural History Museum of Utah — 0.7 mi
  A world-class museum built into the foothills above Salt Lake City
• Red Butte Garden — 1.0 mi
  A 100-acre botanical garden with panoramic valley views
• Emigration Canyon — 2.2 mi
  The final stretch of trail the Mormon pioneers took into the valley

More markers nearby

• Blacksmith Shop — steps away
• Angels Are Near Us — steps away
• Bodil Mortensen Statue — 0.2 mi
• Samuel Jewkes/Henry Draper Home — 0.2 mi