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's granite slabs carry 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.

What the plaque says

TOOELE CITY PIONEER MEMORIAL The base or bottom ring symbolizes the family, the basic unit of our society. The plow represents the industry of man. The wheat is the fruit of honest labor. The wheel represents our effort to move forward. The father is the head or leader and provider of the family. He provides direction for the future with his hand on the wheel. The mother located in the center, represents the heart of the home, also teaching and nurturing the family. The boy kneeling at his mother's knee, represents that the greatest lessons are taught in the home. The girl standing with a book in her hand represents the need for continued education giving her wisdom and learning in her youth. All of these is a family unit. Each unit represents understanding and accepting of its different roles, working together in harmony and peace, and progressing forward to a brighter day. Tooele City Pioneer Memorial This monument was erected by the Sons and Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, to memorialize the pioneer men, women and children who came West between 1849 and 1869. They braved the elements and endured all the privations and hardships incident to pioneering the wilderness to settle Tooele City. KEY TO LISTING: Husband or Head of Family or Single Wife Children Wife of Child Children 2nd Wife *Names of pioneers are listed with the family they first came to Tooele with Settlement Canyon Chapter S.U.P. Tooele Company D.U.P. MONUMENT # 97

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