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.

What the plaque says

IN MEMORY OF THE OFFICERS, SOLDIERS AND CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES OF THE ARMY IN UTAH WHO DIED WHILE STATIONED AT CAMP FLOYD DURING THE UTAH CAMPAIGN FROM 1858 TO 1861 WHOSE REMAINS ARE INTERRED IN THIS CEMETERY ERECTED BY THE WAR DEPARTMENT

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
• Col. Philip St. George Cooke — 0.6 mi
• Camp Floyd, Pony Express, Journalism (3) — 0.6 mi
• Free Masons — 0.6 mi