Tooele Library Pioneer Memorial

The first camp gets the famous marker; this one honors everybody else. Dedicated in 2000 at the entrance to Tooele's library, the memorial carries more than eight hundred names — the men, women, and children who crossed the plains before the railroad came in 1869 and made Tooele their home. A founding is usually told as a handful of families and a date. Eight hundred names tell it differently: as twenty years of wagons arriving, family by family, each one deciding that this dry valley west of the mountains was worth the rest of a life.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Bingham Canyon Mine — 8.0 mi
  The largest man-made excavation on Earth
• Great Salt Lake — 18 mi
  The largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere
• Saltair — 19 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 Mud Wall — steps away
• Old Tooele Ward Church (2) Markers — steps away
• Old Tooele County Courthouse — 0.3 mi
• Pioneer Log Cabin — 0.3 mi