The Pioneer Mother

Springville's most famous son spent his career in bronze far from home — sculpting the Angel Moroni for the Salt Lake Temple and, more tenderly, the Native leaders whose people he had grown up beside and defended. In 1932 Cyrus Dallin turned that same eye on his own town's beginnings. His Pioneer Mother, a woman and child facing the unknown, honors the wives and mothers who crossed the plains and made a settlement stick. It still stands on Main Street, near the art museum he helped found: the work of a man who never forgot where he came from.

What the plaque says

MEMORIAL TO THE PIONEER MOTHERS OF SPRINGVILLE DEDICATED JULY 25, 1932 THE PIONEER MOTHER BY CYRUS E. DALLIN IN HONOR OF THE NOBLE WOMEN WHO BRAVED THE WILDERNESS ERECTED BY DAUGHTERS OF THE UTAH PIONEERS

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Bridal Veil Falls — 12 mi
  A dramatic double waterfall cascading 607 feet into Provo Canyon
• Thistle Landslide — 12 mi
  The ruins of a town destroyed by a massive landslide in 1983
• Sundance Mountain Resort — 16 mi
  Robert Redford's intimate, arts-minded ski resort on the slopes of Mount Timpanogos, in the North Fork of Provo Canyon.
• Aspen Grove — 17 mi
  The mountain-base trailhead for Mount Timpanogos and Stewart Falls

More markers nearby

• Victory Fountain (WWI) — steps away
• Springville Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi
• Springville High School Art Gallery — 0.4 mi
• Springville's First Camp Site — 0.4 mi