Free Masons

Utah's first Masonic lodge met in a sagebrush army camp. The soldiers stationed at Camp Floyd, cut off from the Mormon towns around them, built a social world of their own — theatricals, a circus, a temperance society, and, in 1859, the territory's first lodge of Free Masons. For a fraternity that prizes permanence and long tradition, it was a brief candle: the lodge lasted only as long as the post did. When the army marched east to the Civil War in 1861, the Masons went with it, and Utah would not charter another lodge for years.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Thanksgiving Point — 11 mi
  A massive complex with dinosaur bones, gardens, and a curiosity museum
• Lehi Roller Mills — 16 mi
  The flour mill from the movie Footloose
• Bingham Canyon Mine — 18 mi
  The largest man-made excavation on Earth
• Timpanogos Cave National Monument — 24 mi
  Three spectacularly decorated caves connected by hand-carved tunnels

More markers nearby

• Stage Coach Inn/Camp Floyd State Park (2) — steps away
• Camp Floyd, Pony Express, Journalism (3) — steps away
• Camp Floyd Cemetery Veterans Memorial — 0.6 mi
• American Merchant Marine Veterans of WWII and Navy Armed Guard — 15 mi