Welsh Settlement

The Welsh who came here in 1849 were the wrong people for the work. Dan Jones — the fiery Welsh missionary who had ferried Joseph Smith on the Mississippi — led a company into the valley, and some tried to raise a farming settlement on the dry ground west of the Jordan. But they were miners and craftsmen, not plowmen; the crops failed, and by 1854 people called this the "old Welsh settlement." Most moved on to Sanpete County, where the coal was, and founded a town they named Wales. The name stuck to a place that didn't.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• International Peace Gardens — 3.3 mi
  A hidden garden where 28 countries are represented in miniature
• Gilgal Sculpture Garden — 5.1 mi
  A surreal and eccentric sculpture garden hidden in a residential neighborhood
• Liberty Park — 5.1 mi
  Salt Lake Citys beloved 80-acre urban park since 1882
• Temple Square — 6.7 mi
  The spiritual and architectural heart of Salt Lake City

More markers nearby

• Archibalt Gardner Mill — 0.5 mi
• Carlisle Family Historical Marker — 1.1 mi
• Taylorsville/ Bennion Pioneers — 1.4 mi
• 1900 Baptismal Site — 1.5 mi