Provo Burial Grounds

This cemetery began by gathering Provo's scattered dead. The town's first pioneers had been buried where they fell — in the Fort Field, at Grandview, on Temple Hill — until these four blocks were set apart in 1853 as a permanent burial ground, and many of the early graves were carefully moved here. Not all: some families chose to leave their dead undisturbed where they lay. The names of those who were reinterred were kept, a modest roll of the settlement's founders. The grounds still hold them, on the city's original cemetery blocks.

What the plaque says

In 1853, the original four blocks of this cemetery became the final burial ground for Provo Pioneers who were first buried in Fort Field, Grandview and Temple Hill and later moved to this cemetery. Some residents preferred to leave their dead undisturbed. The known ones moved are: Matilda and Geo. W. Haws, Harriet M. Turner, Wm. Dayton, Joseph Higbee, Katherine Radford, Jessee McCarred, Jacob Cloward, Martha Wheeler, Jacob H. Barney, Matilda Park, Sarah and Wm. McLane, Sally Norton, Joseph Ivy, Margarett Fausett, Emily Roberts, Louisa Follett, Abisha Ware, Jos. McEwan, Mary E. Peay, and others.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Bridal Veil Falls — 8.2 mi
  A dramatic double waterfall cascading 607 feet into Provo Canyon
• Sundance Mountain Resort — 12 mi
  Robert Redford's intimate, arts-minded ski resort on the slopes of Mount Timpanogos, in the North Fork of Provo Canyon.
• Aspen Grove — 13 mi
  The mountain-base trailhead for Mount Timpanogos and Stewart Falls
• Alpine Loop Summit — 13 mi
  The 8,000-foot high point of the Alpine Loop, face to face with Mount Timpanogos

More markers nearby

• Maeser School — 0.6 mi
• In Memory of Dr. Barney Clark — 0.7 mi
• Superintendant's Residence-Utah State Hospit — 0.7 mi
• Startup Candy Factory — 0.9 mi