General Thomas L. Kane Civil War Memorial

This town is named for a man who was never a Latter-day Saint and never lived here. Thomas L. Kane was a Pennsylvania reformer who befriended the Mormons in 1846 and spent years defending them in Washington. His great service came in 1857, when the U.S. Army marched on Utah and war loomed. Kane crossed the country at his own expense, talked both sides down, and the crisis passed without a battle. He became a Union general in the Civil War. When settlers here needed a name, an apostle proposed his — Kanesville, for the Saints' truest outside friend.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Hill Aerospace Museum — 4.2 mi
  Over 90 military aircraft displayed indoors and on the tarmac
• Ogden Union Station — 6.5 mi
  A grand 1924 train depot turned museum complex
• Snowbasin — 12 mi
  One of the country's oldest ski areas and a 2002 Olympic downhill venue — world-class terrain that somehow still skis uncrowded.
• Antelope Island State Park — 17 mi
  A rugged island in the Great Salt Lake with free-roaming bison

More markers nearby

• Muskrat Springs-Hooper — 2.0 mi
• First Post Office in Roy — 3.4 mi
• Clinton — 3.5 mi
• First House in Hooper — 4.1 mi