Page Ranch House

'We keep travel,' the sign said, and for decades this ranch did. The land was first settled in 1858 by Robert Richey, who had come south with Jacob Hamblin's company of missionaries to the Native peoples of the region. His grandson Daniel Page and Daniel's wife Sophia designed this brick house — the brick fired on the spot from clay dug just west — and finished it in 1900. It sat on a busy freight and travel road, and the Pages ran it as an informal hotel, boarding travelers and the men who worked the iron mines nearby.

What the plaque says

The Page Ranch House was designed by its original owners, Daniel Richey Page and Sophia Geary Page. Construction began in 1898 and was completed in 1900. The builders were Jack and Harvey Fabian of St. George, who made and fired the brick on the site using clay found immediately west of the building location. The house was the home for the Page family for 34 years. Under the notice, "We keep travel," the house served as an informal hotel for travelers and as a boarding house for men working at the nearby iron ore mines. The Page Ranch was an important stopping point along what was once a major freighting and travel route through southern Utah. The ranch was originally settled in 1858 by Robert Richey, grandfather of Dan Page and an Indian missionary in the Jacob Hamblin group sent to southern Utah by Brigham Young in 1854. The ranch was owned by the Richey and Page families from 1858 to 1934. Architecturally, this house is a good example of the double cross-wing, a relatively uncommon house type in Utah.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Kolob Canyons — 16 mi
  The quiet, uncrowded back door to Zion National Park
• Zion National Park — 29 mi
  Towering sandstone cliffs that glow like fire at sunset
• Parowan Gap Petroglyphs — 30 mi
  An ancient rock art gallery hidden in a desert canyon

More markers nearby

• Old Irontown — 2.6 mi
• Pinto — 5.5 mi
• New Harmony — 8.8 mi
• Military Training Camp Site — 9.0 mi