Monroe Pioneers/Old Fort

Twice the settlers of this valley had to decide if it was worth the danger. They came in 1864 and named it Alma, and when the Black Hawk War closed in they threw up a fort — homes, a blacksmith shop, a stockade. It held two years. In 1867 they gave up and fled north to Sanpete; an attempt to return in 1868 ended in a fight near Cedar Ridge. Not until 1871 was it safe to come back for good. They renamed the reclaimed town Monroe, and the valley they'd twice refused to lose is farmed still.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Big Rock Candy Mountain — 5.4 mi
  The real mountain that inspired the famous hobo folk song
• Fremont Indian State Park — 12 mi
  The largest known Fremont Indian village ever discovered
• Fishlake National Forest — 21 mi
  Home to Pando — the largest living organism on Earth

More markers nearby

• Peace Treaty with Fish Lake Indians — 22 mi
• Blue Star Memorial Highway - Fillmore — 25 mi
• Fillmore Veterans Memorial — 26 mi
• CCC Camp F-32, Co.-479 — 27 mi