Pleasant Green Taylor

Harrisville got off to a hard start. Its first settler killed a Shoshone chief in 1850, the retaliation cost another life, and he fled. Into that empty claim, the next year, came Pleasant Green Taylor. He stayed through everything that followed — the alarms that drove families into Bingham's Fort, the year the town emptied out ahead of Johnston's Army, the slow work of making it hold. For decades he served as the town's bishop, and when Harrisville finally built its meetinghouse, the ground it stood on was land he gave. A settler who made a shaky place permanent.

What the plaque says

Pleasant Green Taylor 1827 1917 Mormon Pioneer Loyal in friendships · honest in business dealings Courageous in public duty · fervent in religious faith "He was mighty in the mightiness of manhood." Erected 1935 by descendants who revere his memory

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Ogden Union Station — 4.1 mi
  A grand 1924 train depot turned museum complex
• Snowbasin — 8.2 mi
  One of the country's oldest ski areas and a 2002 Olympic downhill venue — world-class terrain that somehow still skis uncrowded.
• Hill Aerospace Museum — 8.4 mi
  Over 90 military aircraft displayed indoors and on the tarmac
• 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.

More markers nearby

• Martin Henderson Harris — 0.4 mi
• Chosin Reservoir Campaign Monument (Korea) — 1.1 mi
• Bingham's Fort — 1.5 mi
• North Ogden — 2.2 mi