Corinne School Bell

Corinne schooled its children the way the rest of Utah then did not — for free. When the Gentile railroad town incorporated in 1870, its new city council founded a tax-funded public school, open to all and tied to no church, at a time when most Utah children paid tuition and schooling ran through the Mormon wards. In a town built expressly to rival Brigham Young's order, a secular free school was itself a kind of argument. This bell called those students to their lessons; the schoolhouse it once topped is long gone.

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

• Corinne Methodist Church (3) Markers — steps away
• The First Weather Station in Utah — steps away
• Corinne Opera House — steps away
• Presbyterian Centennial — 0.2 mi