Wight's Fort Cemetery

This burial ground began with two babies. Around 1853, on a low knoll south of Wight's Fort, settlers buried a Native infant; when the first pioneer child of West Jordan died soon after — a son of Lyman and Harriet Wight — they laid him in the ground beside the first. Two children of two peoples, side by side, started the cemetery that holds the fort's founding families. The soft sandstone headstones have worn nearly smooth in the years since, but the place is tended, and its first families are still remembered by name.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

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