Tooele City Pioneer Cemetery and Memorial Garden

By the 1990s, Tooele's oldest dead were nearly lost to memory — a burial ground used from 1850 to 1867, perhaps a hundred graves, none permanently marked, with a 1925 monument that covered only part of the ground. Then in 1997 researchers traced the cemetery's original boundaries, and the developer of the adjoining subdivision donated the land rather than build on it. For the valley's sesquicentennial in 1999, the pioneer societies dedicated this memorial garden over the remaining graves: a town choosing, a hundred and fifty years on, to give its first dead a permanent place.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Bingham Canyon Mine — 8.1 mi
  The largest man-made excavation on Earth
• Great Salt Lake — 19 mi
  The largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere
• Saltair — 20 mi
  A haunting lakeside resort with a storied past
• International Peace Gardens — 24 mi
  A hidden garden where 28 countries are represented in miniature

More markers nearby

• Tooele's First Cemetery — steps away
• Pioneer Graves Reburied — steps away
• Early Settlers of Tooele County — 0.4 mi
• Old Tooele County Courthouse — 1.0 mi