Spring Town

When settlers returned to Spring City for good in 1859, they brought a gift that still shows: a large colony of Danish craftsmen and stonemasons. They laid out the town, raised such abundant grain that the valley was called a breadbasket of Utah, and built homes and a chapel from the honey-colored oolite limestone quarried just south of town. That stonework endures — Spring City today is one of the best-preserved pioneer towns in the state, a whole village of nineteenth-century craft, listed as a National Historic District entire.

What the plaque says

In 1859, this area was resettled permanently by families of James Allred, Wm. Black, James Ellis, a large Danish colony of gifted craftsmen and stonemasons, and others. They surveyed the land, raised abundant crops, and became known as the breadbasket of Utah; built substantial homes and chapel of oolite stone, quarried south of town. The fort built west of the chapel in 1858 was burned by Indians, 1854. Town was incorporated, named Spring City 1870, John R. Baxter, Mayor.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Spring City — 0.4 mi
  An entire pioneer town preserved on the National Register
• Mount Pleasant — 5.4 mi
  A National Register Main Street and Utah's oldest boarding school
• Skyline Drive — 9.1 mi
  A hundred miles of dirt along the 10,000-foot crest of the Wasatch Plateau
• Ephraim Co-op — 9.3 mi
  The 1871 cooperative store that outlived the economy it was built to replace

More markers nearby

• LDS Meeting House — steps away
• Spring City, City Hall — steps away
• Spring City — 0.2 mi
• Spring City Pioneer Cemetery — 0.4 mi