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 Indian scares 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.

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 — 11 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

• Site of Mound Fort — 2.5 mi
• Peter Skeen Ogden — 2.8 mi
• Farr's Fort — 3.3 mi
• Lorin Farr - Miles Goodyear Cabin — 3.7 mi