The Price of Freedom World War I Memorial

Dedicated in 1922, this is one of Utah's earlier World War I memorials, raised in Price while the war was just four years gone and its losses still fresh in a small coal town. The First World War cost the country some 116,000 lives, many to disease as much as to combat, and communities across America answered with monuments like this one. The wordplay in the name is deliberate — "the Price of Freedom" in the town of Price — a small-town flourish on a genuinely heavy subject.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Prehistoric Museum at USU Eastern — steps away
  A small-town museum punching way above its weight in dinosaur science
• Price — steps away
  A gritty coal mining town with a surprisingly excellent dinosaur museum
• Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry — 20 mi
  The densest concentration of Jurassic-era dinosaur bones ever found

More markers nearby

• Carbon Tabernacle/Price River Valley — steps away
• Immigrant Monument — steps away
• Coal Miner — steps away
• Price Municipal Building — steps away