Taylorsville-Bennion Cemetery & Cemetery Flagpole

This burial ground holds the settlers who first farmed west of the Jordan River. The Taylorsville and Bennion communities grew from families who crossed the river to work the dry bench in the 1850s, and buried their dead here as the settlement took root. The cemetery and its flagpole were marked in 1993 by the local chapters that carry both community names. It is the plainest kind of pioneer record: not a fort or a mill, but the ground where a farming community laid its own to rest, generation after generation, on the land they had broken.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• International Peace Gardens — 3.5 mi
  A hidden garden where 28 countries are represented in miniature
• Liberty Park — 6.1 mi
  Salt Lake Citys beloved 80-acre urban park since 1882
• Gilgal Sculpture Garden — 6.1 mi
  A surreal and eccentric sculpture garden hidden in a residential neighborhood
• Temple Square — 7.3 mi
  The spiritual and architectural heart of Salt Lake City

More markers nearby

• English Fort — steps away
• 1900 Baptismal Site — 0.5 mi
• Taylorsville/ Bennion Pioneers — 0.6 mi
• Millrace — 1.3 mi