Monroe Town Bell

Before sirens and wristwatches, a town's loudest possession was its bell — the one voice that could reach every field and kitchen at once, calling school, worship, alarm, and mourning. Monroe's bell did that work from 1885 to 1940, fifty-five years of ordering the days of one of the Sevier Valley's biggest farm towns. When newer machinery finally took its job, Monroe didn't melt the bell down or lose it to a storeroom: the town raised a stone tower in the city park and hung it where everyone could still look up and see it.

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

• Monroe Pioneers/Old Fort — steps away
• Camp Alma Relic Hall — steps away
• Fort Alma — 0.2 mi
• Sawmill Road — 0.5 mi