World War II Memorial

Utah Copper built Copperton in the 1920s as a showplace for its product — houses roofed and guttered in copper at the mouth of the pit that would become the largest on earth. During the war the pit above town ran at record pace, its copper bound for shell casings, wiring, and shipyards across the Allied world. In 1946 the company town set this monument to its own war dead, the men who left the copper camp and did not come back. Copperton outlived neighboring Bingham City, which the widening pit eventually swallowed whole.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Bingham Canyon Mine — 3.9 mi
  The largest man-made excavation on Earth
• Saltair — 13 mi
  A haunting lakeside resort with a storied past
• International Peace Gardens — 14 mi
  A hidden garden where 28 countries are represented in miniature
• Liberty Park — 17 mi
  Salt Lake Citys beloved 80-acre urban park since 1882

More markers nearby

• Bingham City Cemetery Veterans Memorial — 1.0 mi
• Bingham Canyon — 3.2 mi
• Fort Herriman — 4.5 mi
• Pioneer Rock Church — 4.8 mi