Old Pleasant Grove Fort Southwest Corner

Stand at this corner and take the measure of the fort. Four city blocks square is a great deal of wall to raise by hand, and Pleasant Grove raised it in a hurry in 1853, out of fear — every family expected to build its share and live behind it. The commitment was enormous for a settlement only three years old: quarrying and stacking rock, digging, hauling, all while trying to farm. This southwest stone completes the outline the other three corners began, letting a passerby pace off just how much a frightened town was willing to build.

What the plaque says

Fort Wall S. W. Corner

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Timpanogos Cave National Monument — 5.8 mi
  Three spectacularly decorated caves connected by hand-carved tunnels
• Lehi Roller Mills — 6.1 mi
  The flour mill from the movie Footloose
• Alpine Loop Summit — 7.3 mi
  The 8,000-foot high point of the Alpine Loop, face to face with Mount Timpanogos
• Aspen Grove — 7.8 mi
  The mountain-base trailhead for Mount Timpanogos and Stewart Falls

More markers nearby

• In Commemoration of Utah's First Indian Battle — steps away
• Pleasant Grove Town Hall — 0.2 mi
• Pioneer Flour Mill — 0.3 mi
• Pioneer Relic Hall — 0.3 mi