Camp Floyd Cemetery Veterans Memorial

There are eighty-four soldiers buried here, and not one of them died in battle. Camp Floyd was built for a war that never came, so the men who filled this cemetery between 1858 and 1861 died of other things — fever and dysentery, accidents with horses and wagons, and the knife-and-pistol violence of the boomtown next door. When the army left for the real war back east, it left them behind. For a century the graves went unmarked; only in 1960 were the names recovered and stones set. It is the last full record of who was here.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Thanksgiving Point — 11 mi
  A massive complex with dinosaur bones, gardens, and a curiosity museum
• Lehi Roller Mills — 16 mi
  The flour mill from the movie Footloose
• Bingham Canyon Mine — 19 mi
  The largest man-made excavation on Earth
• Timpanogos Cave National Monument — 24 mi
  Three spectacularly decorated caves connected by hand-carved tunnels

More markers nearby

• Stage Coach Inn/Camp Floyd State Park (2) — 0.6 mi
• Camp Floyd, Pony Express, Journalism (3) — 0.6 mi
• Free Masons — 0.6 mi
• American Merchant Marine Veterans of WWII and Navy Armed Guard — 16 mi