Corinne Methodist Church (3) Markers

This small church has outlasted every other of its kind. Built by the Methodists in 1870, in the boom days of Utah's one Gentile town, it is the oldest Protestant church building still standing anywhere in the state — dedicated that September while Corinne was still a wide-open railroad camp of saloons and freighters. The town that raised it faded within a decade, its merchants gone to Ogden, its trade to the rails. But the little Methodist church stayed put, a plain brick survivor of the brief season when Corinne meant to remake Utah in its own image.

What the plaque says

1870 This is the oldest extant Protestant Church building in Utah. It was dedicated by Chaplin C.C. McCabe and Reverend G.M. Peirce on September 20, 1870

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Wellsville Mountains — 10 mi
  The steepest mountains in North America for their height
• Hyrum State Park — 15 mi
  A family-friendly reservoir at the mouth of Blacksmith Fork Canyon
• Logan — 19 mi
  A vibrant college town tucked into a stunning mountain valley
• Powder Mountain — 21 mi
  The largest ski resort in the United States by acreage — a famously uncrowded "PowMow" now remaking itself under Netflix's Reed Hastings.

More markers nearby

• The First Weather Station in Utah — steps away
• Corinne Opera House — steps away
• Presbyterian Centennial — steps away
• Corinne-Pioneer Railroad Town — 0.3 mi