Dover Cemetery

Dover has no living residents to visit its dead. West of Fayette, across the Sevier River, a town of fifty homes rose in 1877 on ground that looked better than it was — the soil turned alkaline, floods took the crops, and mosquitoes carried diphtheria through families faster than they could bury their own. By 1900 the living had gone and only the graves stayed. A reservoir later drowned the fields, drought finished the rest, and the houses were hauled off or fell. This little cemetery — forty graves, tended still — is nearly all that Dover left behind.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Gunnison — 5.5 mi
  Sanpete's southern hub, home to Utah's oldest operating theater
• Sterling — 11 mi
  A highway hamlet and the doorway to Palisade State Park
• Scipio — 11 mi
  A tiny crossroads town where I-15 meets the old highway
• Mayfield — 12 mi
  Gateway to Twelve Mile Canyon and the Skyline Drive high country

More markers nearby

• Gunnison Honor Roll — 5.3 mi
• Gunnison Valley Veterans Memorial — 5.3 mi
• Gunnison Pioneers — 5.3 mi
• Sterling — 11 mi