Syracuse First Social Center

Before Syracuse had a building of its own, its people worshipped in other towns. The first furrows were plowed here around 1872 and the first houses raised in 1876–77, but for church the settlers drove to Kaysville or Farmington until 1882, when a branch was organized locally. Three years later they pooled their means and put up a plain frame building, twenty-five by forty feet, a couple of miles west of here. For years it was the whole town's gathering place — church on Sunday, school on weekdays, socials at night. Its foundation stones are set in this monument.

What the plaque says

About 1872 the first soil was plowed in this community and in 1876-77 homes were erected. The people attended church services in Kaysville and Farmington prior to 1882 when Pres. Wm. R. Smith of Davis stake organized a branch of the L.D.S. church with Wm. H. Beazer presiding elder. In 1885 the people donated means to erect a one room frame building about 25 X 40 feet 2 miles west of this spot, which was used many years as a church, school, and social center. Some of the rocks of the original foundation are used in this monument. Rachel Layton Warren Camp Davis County

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Hill Aerospace Museum — 6.0 mi
  Over 90 military aircraft displayed indoors and on the tarmac
• Ogden Union Station — 10 mi
  A grand 1924 train depot turned museum complex
• Lagoon Amusement Park — 11 mi
  A beloved family amusement park operating since 1886
• Antelope Island State Park — 12 mi
  A rugged island in the Great Salt Lake with free-roaming bison

More markers nearby

• The Old Emigrant Road — 0.8 mi
• Clinton — 4.0 mi
• First Post Office in Roy — 4.7 mi
• Layton Veterans Park — 5.2 mi