Miners Memorial

Helper was the town the coal camps came down to, and it keeps a ledger of the worst morning the canyons ever had. On March 8, 1924, explosions tore through the Castle Gate mine a few miles up the canyon and killed more than 170 men, fifty of them Greek immigrants — one of the deadliest coal-mine disasters in American history. This memorial beside Helper's mining museum sets down their names. Some of the dead lay for decades in unmarked graves; here, at least, every man has his name.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Prehistoric Museum at USU Eastern — 6.2 mi
  A small-town museum punching way above its weight in dinosaur science
• Price — 6.2 mi
  A gritty coal mining town with a surprisingly excellent dinosaur museum

More markers nearby

• Geneva/Horse Canyon Mine Monument — steps away
• Francis M. Ewell — 0.8 mi
• Castle Gate Mine Disaster — 3.5 mi
• Utah's Coal Industry — 3.5 mi