Lucy Bigelow Young

When Brigham Young began wintering in St. George in the 1870s, aging and set on seeing the temple finished, Lucy Bigelow Young kept the house he lived in. One of his many wives, she ran the winter home — the cooking, the guests, the household of a man running a church from his parlor. She also worked in the temple down the street. And she raised a daughter here, Susa Young Gates, who became one of Utah's most formidable women: a writer, editor, and suffragist. History remembers the daughter more than the mother. This marker evens that a little.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm — 2.5 mi
  Real dinosaur footprints preserved in ancient sandstone
• Snow Canyon State Park — 6.9 mi
  Red and white sandstone cliffs with ancient lava flows
• Hurricane Canal Trail — 17 mi
  The hand-dug canal that built Hurricane, now a walking trail blasted into the Virgin River gorge
• Kolob Canyons — 33 mi
  The quiet, uncrowded back door to Zion National Park

More markers nearby

• The Temple Quarry — 1.5 mi
• Santa Clara Heritage Monument — 4.1 mi
• Santa Clara Relief Society Hall — 4.1 mi
• Swiss Colony — 4.1 mi