Hamblin Cemetery

Jacob Hamblin built a ranch here in 1856, above Mountain Meadow, where the wagon road to California ran through good grass and springs. A small town grew around it, selling supplies to herds and emigrants passing by. When the massacre came the next year, the seventeen spared children were brought here and cared for before being sent home to Arkansas. Then the road faded when the railroad came, and the meadow itself failed — grazed bare, its springs gone dry. The people left, many for Enterprise. A cemetery and a few foundations are all that stayed.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Snow Canyon State Park — 23 mi
  Red and white sandstone cliffs with ancient lava flows
• Kolob Canyons — 25 mi
  The quiet, uncrowded back door to Zion National Park
• Hurricane Canal Trail — 30 mi
  The hand-dug canal that built Hurricane, now a walking trail blasted into the Virgin River gorge

More markers nearby

• Mountain Meadow Memorial (5) Panels — 4.3 mi
• Mountain Meadows Trail & Camp — 4.6 mi
• Enterprise Pioneer Park — 6.5 mi
• Wood for Pine Valley Chapel and Salt Lake Tabernacle Organ — 11 mi