Early Granger Schools/Monroe School

The valley's first schools were neighborhood affairs, built and named by the district. This marker remembers the early schools of Granger, the farming community that became West Valley City. Chief among them was the West Granger School, put up in 1903 in the old 46th District on Redwood Road; two years later it was renamed Monroe Elementary, a name that has followed the school through two more buildings and three locations since. The Daughters of Utah Pioneers placed this monument in 1983 to keep the record of where a growing community first sent its children to learn.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• International Peace Gardens — 3.7 mi
  A hidden garden where 28 countries are represented in miniature
• Liberty Park — 6.7 mi
  Salt Lake Citys beloved 80-acre urban park since 1882
• Gilgal Sculpture Garden — 7.0 mi
  A surreal and eccentric sculpture garden hidden in a residential neighborhood
• Temple Square — 7.2 mi
  The spiritual and architectural heart of Salt Lake City

More markers nearby

• A Struggle for Water, west of the Jordan River — 0.5 mi
• English Fort — 3.1 mi
• Taylorsville-Bennion Cemetery & Cemetery Flagpole — 3.2 mi
• Carlisle Family Historical Marker — 3.5 mi