Original Willard Cemetary (sic)

Willard's first graveyard filled in order of death, not by family. When the town buried its first — a five-day-old baby — in the summer of 1854, they laid him in the corner, and each new grave went in the next spot north, whoever it held. Families who wanted to lie together had to wait and hope. That, and the crowding, is why Willard opened a second cemetery up the hill in 1869. In 1923 a flood tore a trench through this old ground and carried markers and remains into the fields west of town.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Powder Mountain — 13 mi
  The largest ski resort in the United States by acreage — a famously uncrowded "PowMow" now remaking itself under Netflix's Reed Hastings.
• Ogden Union Station — 14 mi
  A grand 1924 train depot turned museum complex
• Wellsville Mountains — 16 mi
  The steepest mountains in North America for their height
• Snowbasin — 17 mi
  One of the country's oldest ski areas and a 2002 Olympic downhill venue — world-class terrain that somehow still skis uncrowded.

More markers nearby

• Willard Schools — 0.4 mi
• Three Mile Creek Site — 3.6 mi
• Peter Skene Ogden — 5.5 mi
• Bushnell Hospital / Intermountain Indian School — 5.8 mi