Original Cemetery Gate

This is the original gate—the steel doorway set into the red sandstone wall that soldiers raised around the Fort Douglas cemetery in 1864, two years after Camp Douglas was founded. Behind it lie some of the oldest military graves in Utah. Among the first buried here were men of Patrick Connor's command who died at the Bear River—the 1863 attack the Army logged as a battle but which the Northwestern Shoshone remember as the massacre at Boa Ogoi, where hundreds of their people were killed.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Natural History Museum of Utah — steps away
  A world-class museum built into the foothills above Salt Lake City
• Red Butte Garden — 0.4 mi
  A 100-acre botanical garden with panoramic valley views
• This Is The Place Heritage Park — 0.8 mi
  A living history village at the mouth of Emigration Canyon
• Emigration Canyon — 2.3 mi
  The final stretch of trail the Mormon pioneers took into the valley

More markers nearby

• Bear River Battle Memorial — steps away
• Patrick Edward Connor — steps away
• Fort Douglas Cemetery — steps away
• German POW World War I Memorial — steps away