Mount Olivet G.A.R. Obelisk

Mount Olivet is the only cemetery in the country created by an act of Congress—twenty acres carved from the Fort Douglas army post in 1874, so that Utah's non-Mormons would have a burying ground of their own. Among those it received were Union veterans of the Civil War, many of whom had come west as soldiers and simply stayed. This obelisk was raised by the Grand Army of the Republic, the old soldiers' own fraternity, to stand over their graves—a piece of the war that reached Utah only in its aftermath, in the men who'd survived it.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Red Butte Garden — 1.4 mi
  A 100-acre botanical garden with panoramic valley views
• Gilgal Sculpture Garden — 1.5 mi
  A surreal and eccentric sculpture garden hidden in a residential neighborhood
• Natural History Museum of Utah — 1.5 mi
  A world-class museum built into the foothills above Salt Lake City
• Liberty Park — 1.6 mi
  Salt Lake Citys beloved 80-acre urban park since 1882

More markers nearby

• Mount Olivet Civil War Cannon — steps away
• Keith M. Engar — 0.3 mi
• David O. McKay — 0.3 mi
• George Thomas Building — 0.4 mi