Grantsville Fort

Grantsville put up its walls in 1853, in the second year of settlement, on land that had long been Goshute country. The fort ran thirty rods to a side, its adobe walls twelve feet high and five feet thick at the base, and about fifty people sheltered within them in the town's first years. They had come to a spring-fed oasis the Goshute knew well, and named their settlement for George D. Grant, one of the pioneers who founded it. The walls are gone now; this monument marks where the grist mill stood inside them.

What the plaque says

This monument marks the site of the Grantsville Fort built in 1853 as protection against the Indians. The fort was thirty rods square with walls twelve feet high five feet thick at the base and eighteen inches thick at the top. The north wall was one hundred forty three feet north of this point. About fifty people lived inside the fort during the early settlement of the town of Grantsville which was named in honor of George D. Grant, one of its pioneers. Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, Grantsville Chapter Utah Pioneer Trails and Landmarks Association

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Great Salt Lake — 10 mi
  The largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere
• Bingham Canyon Mine — 18 mi
  The largest man-made excavation on Earth
• Saltair — 22 mi
  A haunting lakeside resort with a storied past
• Antelope Island State Park — 28 mi
  A rugged island in the Great Salt Lake with free-roaming bison

More markers nearby

• Donner-Reed Memorial Museum & Early Bldgs. — steps away
• Lincoln Highway — 0.5 mi
• Hilda Anderson Erickson — 1.4 mi
• E.T. Benson Grist Mill — 9.8 mi