Utah Fallen Warrior Memorial

This memorial to Utah's war dead is built from a piece of Ground Zero. When crews clearing the World Trade Center site cut away a nine-thousand-pound section of the slurry wall — the great underground barrier that had held the Hudson River out of the towers' foundations — to make room for new rail lines, they saved it rather than scrap it. The artist Sandra Priest shaped and polished the concrete into a memorial, and it came to rest here in Utah, honoring the service members from this state who have fallen in the wars since that September morning.

What the plaque says

History: Utah Fallen Warrior Memorial is a peice of artifact from the World Trade Center. This artifact is a section from the slurry wall weighing 9000 pounds. The slurry walls main fuction was to hold back the Hudson River from flooding the basement of the world trade center. When New York started the clean up at ground zero a section of the slurry wall needed to be removed for the new rail lines. The contractor wanted to preserve this section and convert them into art for a memorial. Artist Sandra Priest was commisioned to sculpture/sand and polish these peices of artifact. Built to Last... The basement was bounded by a 3,300 foot long three foot thick slurry wall, or perimeter wall, constructed from grade and socketed into the bedrock located at depths of as much as 20 feet. In the 1950's continuous underground walls were constructed using bentonite slurry as temporary support for slot excavations in difficult soil conditions. Bentonite slurry is only slightly heavier than water. Early on, the Port Authority Engineering Department recognized that this technology would be suitable for construction of a safe, economical deep basement in extremely difficult ground conditions. The slurry wall was installed over a twelve month period ending in 1968. The Memorial site was dedicated on October 31, 2013 by Utah Governor Gary Herbert. A special Thanks to Dave and Raette Belcher for providing this Historical artifact.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Red Butte Garden — 0.4 mi
  A 100-acre botanical garden with panoramic valley views
• Natural History Museum of Utah — 0.5 mi
  A world-class museum built into the foothills above Salt Lake City
• This Is The Place Heritage Park — 1.3 mi
  A living history village at the mouth of Emigration Canyon
• Gilgal Sculpture Garden — 2.4 mi
  A surreal and eccentric sculpture garden hidden in a residential neighborhood

More markers nearby

• Women's Service Memorial — steps away
• Patrick Edward Connor Monument — steps away
• Fort Douglas Miltary Museum — steps away
• Stilwell Field Monument — steps away