Carpenter's Shop

A frontier settlement couldn't send out for anything, so it made its own — and the carpenter was among its most essential figures, turning raw timber into doors, furniture, wagons, coffins, and the frames of every building going up. This shop at the heritage park represents that trade. There's no romance to it, which is the point: the pioneer story is usually told through prophets and hardships, but a town actually ran on the daily skill of people who could join wood square and true. The carpenter's bench was its own kind of foundation.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• This Is The Place Heritage Park — 0.2 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 — 1.9 mi
  The final stretch of trail the Mormon pioneers took into the valley

More markers nearby

• Milo Andrus Home — steps away
• Samuel Jewkes/Henry Draper Home — steps away
• Blacksmith Shop — steps away
• Bodil Mortensen Statue — steps away