First School

Among the first things a frontier town built, after shelter and a mill, was a school — and this marker remembers Nephi's first one. In the early Latter-day Saint settlements, schooling often began almost immediately, held in a one-room building or a settler's home, because an educated rising generation was part of the plan from the start. The 1954 marker honors that beginning. It's easy to forget how quickly these isolated farm towns set up the institutions of a settled society; the schoolhouse usually came faster than you'd expect.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Nephi — 0.4 mi
  A quiet ranching town at the foot of Mount Nebo
• Devil's Kitchen — 8.0 mi
  A pocket of red-rock hoodoos high in the green Wasatch — a "little Bryce Canyon"
• Mount Nebo — 8.3 mi
  At 11,928 feet, the highest and southernmost peak in the Wasatch Range
• Nebo Loop Summit — 11 mi
  The byway's 9,300-foot high point, with Utah Valley spread out below

More markers nearby

• Salt Creek Fort Wall — steps away
• World War II Memorial Rose Garden — 0.4 mi
• Juab County Veterans Memorial — 0.4 mi
• Juab Co. Jail — 0.6 mi