Willard Schools

Willard raised its children on lessons held in the log fort and the ward meetinghouse before a proper school tax arrived in 1870. The town — a place of Welsh stonemasons whose rock houses still line the streets — built a substantial brick schoolhouse in 1902, the one most residents would remember. It served until 1986, when a modern elementary replaced it. The old schoolhouse came down, but its 1964 west wing was spared and stands today as Willard's city hall, still keeping the town's business under a schoolhouse roof.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Ogden Union Station — 13 mi
  A grand 1924 train depot turned museum complex
• Powder Mountain — 14 mi
  The largest ski resort in the United States by acreage — a famously uncrowded "PowMow" now remaking itself under Netflix's Reed Hastings.
• Wellsville Mountains — 16 mi
  The steepest mountains in North America for their height
• Snowbasin — 16 mi
  One of the country's oldest ski areas and a 2002 Olympic downhill venue — world-class terrain that somehow still skis uncrowded.

More markers nearby

• Pioneer Cabin — 7.9 mi
• Peter Skeen Ogden — 8.8 mi
• Pleasant Green Taylor — 9.2 mi
• Site of Mound Fort — 12 mi