Coal Man Machine

Carbon County ran on coal, and this sculpture by James Young puts the worker and his machine at the center of the story. Price grew up as the supply town for the coalfields in the canyons around it — mines that pulled immigrants from dozens of nations into the camps and fueled the railroads and smelters of the whole region. The "coal man" is a fitting civic emblem for a place built on extraction: not a general or a founder, but the figure who actually went underground and brought the coal up.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Prehistoric Museum at USU Eastern — steps away
  A small-town museum punching way above its weight in dinosaur science
• Price — steps away
  A gritty coal mining town with a surprisingly excellent dinosaur museum
• Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry — 20 mi
  The densest concentration of Jurassic-era dinosaur bones ever found

More markers nearby

• Immigrant Monument — steps away
• First Meetinghouse — steps away
• Price Municipal Building — steps away
• The Price of Freedom World War I Memorial — steps away