Rockwell Station

This stable belonged to the most feared man in the territory. Orrin Porter Rockwell was bodyguard to Joseph Smith and then Brigham Young, a frontier lawman and gunman the newspapers called the "Destroying Angel of Mormondom." A prophet's promise, the story went, kept him safe so long as he never cut his hair, and he wore it long to the end. Here at the canyon's mouth he ran a Pony Express and Overland Stage station, swapping horses and feeding travelers, one of the stops that moved the mail across Utah. He died in 1878, still unshorn.

What the plaque says

On this site was located Orrin Porter Rockwell's Pony Express and Overland Stage stable

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lehi Roller Mills — 7.0 mi
  The flour mill from the movie Footloose
• Timpanogos Cave National Monument — 11 mi
  Three spectacularly decorated caves connected by hand-carved tunnels
• Thanksgiving Point — 11 mi
  A massive complex with dinosaur bones, gardens, and a curiosity museum
• Bingham Canyon Mine — 13 mi
  The largest man-made excavation on Earth

More markers nearby

• Bluffdale — 2.1 mi
• Early Riverton — 2.9 mi
• The Magnificent Dome Church — 2.9 mi
• Riverton Tithing Yard — 2.9 mi