Fountain Green

Fountain Green was settled twice — once before the war drove it out, and again behind a fort. Albert Petty surveyed here in 1859, and settlers followed, raising a log meeting house, opening a store and hotel, grinding flour at Bernard Snow's mill, firing brick from John Green's yard. Polly Johnson led the Relief Society; Catherine Oldroyd delivered babies. Then the Black Hawk War — the Ute fight against the loss of their land — made the valley too dangerous, and the settlers abandoned it. They came back in the fall of 1866 and built a fort to stay.

What the plaque says

After Albert Petty surveyed this site in 1859, pioneers came, built homes, erected a meeting house of logs cut by William Gibson and Asbury Parks. In 1861, Bishop Robert L. Johnson opened first store and hotel. Polly Johnson was first Relief Society President; Catherine Oldroyd served as midwife. Bernard Snow supplied flour from his burr mill in 1867. John Green operated adobe and brickyard. Black Hawk War forced settlers to move for safety. They returned and built fort in fall of 1866. Plaque below: The bell atop this monument rang its message from the tower of the first schoolhouse, 1880. As each new schoolhouse was built, the bell was transferred; tolling time, fire and curfew for 88 years.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fairview — 10 mi
  The north gate of the Heritage Highway, home to a near-complete Ice Age mammoth
• Mount Pleasant — 11 mi
  A National Register Main Street and Utah's oldest boarding school
• Nephi — 12 mi
  A quiet ranching town at the foot of Mount Nebo
• Spring City — 13 mi
  An entire pioneer town preserved on the National Register

More markers nearby

• Lewis Lund — steps away
• Uinta Springs Settlement — 0.3 mi
• Salt Creek Canyon Massacre — 6.5 mi
• ZCMI Co-Op Building — 7.6 mi