The Liberal Hall

Not everyone in Mormon Sanpete was Mormon. In 1875 a group of dissenters — the Mount Pleasant "Liberal" Club, most of them former Latter-day Saints — built this hall as a meeting place of their own. It became a foothold for something new: that same year the Presbyterian minister Duncan J. McMillan opened a free school here, and it grew into Wasatch Academy, which teaches in Mount Pleasant still. In a valley settled as one faith's stronghold, the Liberal Hall marks the arrival of another.

What the plaque says

The Mount Pleasant "Liberal" Club was an organization whose members were usually former Mormons. They built this hall in 1875 as a meeting place and social center. It was here that the Presbyterian minister and educator, the Reverend Dr. Duncan J. McMillan, began his missionary work in Central Utah and, on April 19, 1875, opened a free school that eventually became the Wasatch Academy.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Mount Pleasant — steps away
  A National Register Main Street and Utah's oldest boarding school
• Spring City — 4.9 mi
  An entire pioneer town preserved on the National Register
• Fairview — 5.8 mi
  The north gate of the Heritage Highway, home to a near-complete Ice Age mammoth
• Skyline Drive — 9.5 mi
  A hundred miles of dirt along the 10,000-foot crest of the Wasatch Plateau

More markers nearby

• Hub City — steps away
• Spirit of the American Doughboy Monument (WWI) — steps away
• Mt. Pleasant Fort — steps away
• Memorial Hall Recreation Center — steps away