Nancy Ferguson Ott

Virgin's town square exists because a daughter of the town never stopped claiming it. Nancy Ferguson Ott was born in Virgin, and wherever life carried her afterward she went on calling this her home town — so when she died, her bequest bought the ground for a public square. The town named it Flanigan Square and dedicated it to its own citizens in her memory: her money, their park, one plainspoken transaction between a village of a few hundred people and the woman who never really left.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Grafton Ghost Town — 3.8 mi
  A photogenic ghost town used in the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
• Springdale — 7.5 mi
  Zion's south-entrance gateway town, wedged between the Watchman and the Virgin River
• Hurricane Canal Trail — 8.1 mi
  The hand-dug canal that built Hurricane, now a walking trail blasted into the Virgin River gorge
• Zion National Park — 9.9 mi
  Towering sandstone cliffs that glow like fire at sunset

More markers nearby

• Rockville Bridge — 5.6 mi
• LaVerkin Pioneers — 7.5 mi
• Morris Wilson Memorial Park — 7.5 mi
• Discovery of Zion Canyon — 7.5 mi