Stanworth Home

Hurricane only became a town because of water—the Hurricane Canal, hacked along the cliffs by hand and finished in 1904, finally let settlers farm this corner of Utah's Dixie. The Stanworth home, built for Emanuel and Ursella Stanworth on what's now South Main Street, is one of the historic houses that grew up with that young community. The National Register of Historic Places added it in 1992, recognizing a Hurricane home worth keeping—a small, durable marker of the families who bet on the desert and stayed.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Hurricane Canal Trail — 0.5 mi
  The hand-dug canal that built Hurricane, now a walking trail blasted into the Virgin River gorge
• Grafton Ghost Town — 12 mi
  A photogenic ghost town used in the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
• Springdale — 16 mi
  Zion's south-entrance gateway town, wedged between the Watchman and the Virgin River
• Zion National Park — 17 mi
  Towering sandstone cliffs that glow like fire at sunset

More markers nearby

• Sheltlar Wagon — steps away
• Hurricane Pioneers — steps away
• Spencer and Helen Isom "Home" — 0.2 mi
• Birth of Hurricane — 0.5 mi