Hub City

Mount Pleasant earned the nickname "Hub City" the hard way — by sitting where the roads of central Utah converged, making this Sanpete County town a commercial center for the farms and coal camps around it. Settled by Latter-day Saint pioneers in 1859 on ground contested with the Ute people, it grew into one of the larger towns in the valley, with a main street of brick storefronts that still reads as more substantial than its current size suggests. The hub outlasted much of the traffic that named it.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Mount Pleasant — steps away
  A National Register Main Street and Utah's oldest boarding school
• Spring City — 4.9 mi
  An entire pioneer town preserved on the National Register
• Fairview — 5.7 mi
  The north gate of the Heritage Highway, home to a near-complete Ice Age mammoth
• Skyline Drive — 9.5 mi
  A hundred miles of dirt along the 10,000-foot crest of the Wasatch Plateau

More markers nearby

• Spirit of the American Doughboy Monument (WWI) — steps away
• The Liberal Hall — steps away
• Mt. Pleasant Fort — steps away
• Memorial Hall Recreation Center — steps away