Old Pleasant Grove Fort Northeast Corner

This stone pins one corner of a fort that became a town. When the Walker War broke out in 1853, the settlers of Battle Creek gathered into a defensive square — a central corral ringed by a hundred cabins, enclosed by a low outer wall. The fort was crude, its wall only knee-to-chest high, but its shape outlasted the danger: as Pleasant Grove grew, it grew from the fort's plan, keeping the four-block core at its heart. It is the only Utah town known to have built its business district inside its fort walls. This is the northeast corner.

What the plaque says

Fort Wall N. E. Corner

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Timpanogos Cave National Monument — 5.4 mi
  Three spectacularly decorated caves connected by hand-carved tunnels
• Lehi Roller Mills — 6.3 mi
  The flour mill from the movie Footloose
• Alpine Loop Summit — 6.9 mi
  The 8,000-foot high point of the Alpine Loop, face to face with Mount Timpanogos
• Aspen Grove — 7.4 mi
  The mountain-base trailhead for Mount Timpanogos and Stewart Falls

More markers nearby

• Nelson Granary — 0.2 mi
• Pioneer Relic Hall — 0.2 mi
• Pioneer Flour Mill — 0.2 mi
• Pleasant Grove Town Hall — 0.2 mi