Orderville Cemetery

Orderville shared everything — a common dining hall, uniform clothing, apartments assigned by need, no private property — until the Edmunds Act's anti-polygamy prosecutions broke the United Order apart in the 1880s. This burial ground, founded with the town in 1875, is the one institution that outlived it. When the LDS Church later deeded the cemetery to the town, the gift carried a condition: anyone could be buried here free of charge — a last flicker of the ethic that everything belongs to everyone. The founders came as destitute refugees from Nevada's failed Muddy River settlements. They rest here.

What the plaque says

Daughters of Utah Pioneers No 28 Dedicated May 1938 In memory of Utah pioneers buried in the cemetery at Orderville founded in 1875 Unveiled May 30, 1933 by Camp 2 of Kane County

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Mount Carmel Junction — 3.9 mi
  The crossroads where the road to Zion meets the highway to Bryce
• Best Friends Animal Sanctuary — 12 mi
  The largest no-kill animal sanctuary in the United States
• Checkerboard Mesa — 14 mi
  A 900-foot dome of Navajo sandstone scored into a natural grid, near Zion's east entrance
• Kanab — 17 mi
  Little Hollywood — where hundreds of Western movies were filmed

More markers nearby

• Old Rock Schoolhouse — 0.2 mi
• Orderville Bell — 0.3 mi
• United Order Industries — 0.3 mi
• Mt. Carmel School & Church — 2.4 mi