Mona Bicentennial Park

This park is built from the bones of the school it remembers. When the old Mona School was pulled down, the town gathered up its sandstone and brick and raised this monument from the salvage — a building remembered with its own material. Set into it is the school bell, which rang the start of the day from 1907 until the school closed in 1971, sixty-four years of calling children in. The Bicentennial Park around it went in for the nation's two-hundredth birthday in 1976, honoring the teachers, students, and townspeople who had made the school matter.

What the plaque says

In memory of our Mona School and the dedicated teachers, board members, custodians, students and citizens who made it great; we have built this monument from sandstone and brick recovered therefrom. The bell hereon, signaled the beginning of school from its erection in 1907 until its termination in 1971. This Bicentennial Park now situated on these grounds commemorates our devotion to and appreciation of our pioneer heritage.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Mount Nebo — 5.1 mi
  At 11,928 feet, the highest and southernmost peak in the Wasatch Range
• Devil's Kitchen — 7.1 mi
  A pocket of red-rock hoodoos high in the green Wasatch — a "little Bryce Canyon"
• Nephi — 7.4 mi
  A quiet ranching town at the foot of Mount Nebo
• Nebo Loop Summit — 8.1 mi
  The byway's 9,300-foot high point, with Utah Valley spread out below

More markers nearby

• Old Pioneer Cemetery — 0.4 mi
• Burraston Ponds — 1.5 mi
• Salt Creek Fort Wall — 7.0 mi
• First School — 7.0 mi