The Founders’ Rescue Wagon

Building Old Main took the whole town, not only the men on the mountain. While the loggers cut and hauled, Cedar City's women baked, made butter and cheese, and darned wool clothing to keep the crews fed and warm; others gathered hay and grain and lent horses, wagons, and gear. This monument stands a wagon on the spot in memory of that winter of 1898, when a legislative deadline meant the building had to rise by fall or the school would go elsewhere.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Brian Head — 12 mi
  Utah's highest town — a ski-and-bike base camp at the top of Parowan Canyon
• Cedar Breaks National Monument — 13 mi
  A 2,000-foot-deep amphitheater of vivid orange and red rock
• Parowan Gap Petroglyphs — 13 mi
  An ancient rock art gallery hidden in a desert canyon
• Kolob Canyons — 17 mi
  The quiet, uncrowded back door to Zion National Park

More markers nearby

• The Founders and Old Sorrel Statue — steps away
• Ellen (Nellie) Pucell Unthank — steps away
• Ward Hall — 0.6 mi
• Iron Pioneers Flag Pole — 0.7 mi