World War I Monument

World War I is when American towns learned to build war memorials. Before the Great War, a village this size had little practice at raising stone to men killed on another continent — but the scale of 1917–18, the first mass American death overseas, changed that, and through the 1920s monuments like this one rose in county seats across the country. Morgan's stands with the memorials that came after it, the eldest of the group. It marks the moment a small ranching valley in the Wasatch first counted itself part of a world war.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lagoon Amusement Park — 12 mi
  A beloved family amusement park operating since 1886
• Hill Aerospace Museum — 15 mi
  Over 90 military aircraft displayed indoors and on the tarmac
• 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.
• Emigration Canyon — 20 mi
  The final stretch of trail the Mormon pioneers took into the valley

More markers nearby

• Korean War Veterans Memorial — steps away
• Early Morgan County Settlers — steps away
• Old Rock Mill — 11 mi
• Pioneer Cabin — 11 mi