First Meetinghouse

Price began in 1877 with Caleb Rhodes and Abraham Powell, and by 1884 the young Latter-day Saint settlement wanted a building of its own. That spring they hauled logs down from Miller's Creek and put up a plain hall, twenty-four by forty feet, and held their first service in it that April. Like most frontier meetinghouses it did every job at once — church on Sunday, schoolroom on weekdays, and by turns an opera house, a dance hall, and the county courthouse. It was the whole civic life of Price under one log roof.

What the plaque says

The settlement of Price began in 1877 when Caleb B. Rhodes and Abraham Powell arrived here. Two years later a number of Later Day Saints and their families strengthened the settlement. A branch of the church was organized in 1881 and in 1882 George Frandsen became bishop with Erastus W. McIntire and Caleb Rhodes counselors. In 1884 logs were taken from Miller's Creek and a meeting house erected on this block, 24x40x12 feet with three windows on each side and double doors in front. The first service was held April 13, 1884. The building was used for church, schools, operas, amusements and courthouse.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Prehistoric Museum at USU Eastern — steps away
  A small-town museum punching way above its weight in dinosaur science
• Price — steps away
  A gritty coal mining town with a surprisingly excellent dinosaur museum
• Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry — 20 mi
  The densest concentration of Jurassic-era dinosaur bones ever found

More markers nearby

• Price Municipal Building — steps away
• Coal Man Machine — steps away
• Immigrant Monument — steps away
• The Price of Freedom World War I Memorial — steps away