Iron Pioneers Flag Pole

The men who lit the first furnace had answered a mission call like any other. Brigham Young wanted iron, and English, Welsh, Scottish, and Irish converts who had made it in the old country came to try it in the desert. Thirty-five of them founded the town in 1851, then spent seven hard years fighting floods and stubborn ore for little usable metal. The iron failed, but the settlement held. In 1928 the Daughters of Utah Pioneers raised this flag pole to keep the memory of those first families who built a town on the strength of a furnace.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Brian Head — 12 mi
  Utah's highest town — a ski-and-bike base camp at the top of Parowan Canyon
• Cedar Breaks National Monument — 12 mi
  A 2,000-foot-deep amphitheater of vivid orange and red rock
• Parowan Gap Petroglyphs — 13 mi
  An ancient rock art gallery hidden in a desert canyon
• Kolob Canyons — 17 mi
  The quiet, uncrowded back door to Zion National Park

More markers nearby

• The Old Iron Foundry — steps away
• Fort Cedar — 1.1 mi
• Old Spanish Trail — 6.6 mi
• Pine Valley — 31 mi