Eureka United Methodist Church

In Mormon Utah, Eureka was a different kind of town — a mining town, and the mines drew the world. Cornish and Welsh, Irish and Italian, Greek and Chinese came to the Tintic to dig silver, some twenty nationalities in one cosmopolitan district. They brought their faiths with them: the Irish built a Catholic school, the Latter-day Saints a chapel, and in 1891 the Methodists raised this church, whose original bell still hangs in the tower. It is a plain building, but it marks a rare thing in the territory — a Utah town the church did not make.

What the plaque says

Constructed in 1891 with funds secured from the local Methodists and the Mission Conference of 1890, this building is important in documenting the religious life of Eureka and Tintic. Methodism began in Tintic when Dr. Thomas C. Iliff visited and preached on June 18, 1890. Reverend W.A. Hunt was appointed first Pastor and succeeded by Dr. D.J. Gilliand, who finished the church structure. The Gothic-style tower houses the original bell. It was listed in the National Register of Historical Places on March 14, 1979 as part of the Eureka Historical District.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Mount Nebo — 21 mi
  At 11,928 feet, the highest and southernmost peak in the Wasatch Range
• Nephi — 23 mi
  A quiet ranching town at the foot of Mount Nebo
• Nebo Loop Summit — 23 mi
  The byway's 9,300-foot high point, with Utah Valley spread out below
• Devil's Kitchen — 24 mi
  A pocket of red-rock hoodoos high in the green Wasatch — a "little Bryce Canyon"

More markers nearby

• Eureka City Hall — steps away
• The Bullion Beck & Champion Mining Company — 0.5 mi
• Old Pioneer Cemetery — 17 mi
• Mona Bicentennial Park — 17 mi