Mabel Williams Philbrick County Nurse

For most of fifty years, Daggett County's health care system was one woman. Mabel Williams Philbrick became county public health nurse in 1935 and held the job until 1982 — for long stretches the only medical practitioner between the Uinta Mountains and the Union Pacific line, in Utah's least-populated county. Serious cases meant the hospital in Rock Springs, Wyoming, fifty miles off; nearly everything else meant Mabel. She ran the monthly well-baby clinics at the courthouse, chased disease through the schools, directed the county's foster care — while her husband Nels wired Manila its first public electricity.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Sheep Creek Canyon Geological Loop — 7.9 mi
  A drive through twisted and upturned rock layers spanning 600 million years
• Flaming Gorge Dam — 17 mi
  A 502-foot concrete dam with a free guided tour inside
• Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area — 17 mi
  A turquoise reservoir carved into blazing red canyon walls

More markers nearby

• Cart Creek Firefighters Memorial — 16 mi