Show A Site to Behold '! Markers pinpoint local historic highlights notation in the bylaws waned sample The instruction just stated dm Sons Utah Pioneers chapters wen expected to mwwnimh mH npiihi litea in Ae area each unit serves But when Stin Allen looked for hit — any lift — to update he found ant he’d hive to do tittle pioneering himoelf There me no list He’d have to lead the way Oh tdL There’! no better place to itait than at the bcginnirig and now 350 documented ite later the end itiljit not viaible on the horfaon New markers pop up mgularly as people bear about his efforts and call to 1 1 Mill ImmuIm aite hidden hffWii hidden there Allet a chair of the trail and landmarks commiltee far SUF When be started the project In February 1996 h didn’t know where it would lead him but he knewb rtrip would be fun Hundred! of photograph hundred of miles on both feet and car and fivethk : volumes of material later he still bubbles at any hi of local historical detail "Yes :’a still fun K takes time but I usually divot to it wheal'm getting tired of other things so in that sense irtkind of relaxing" he says Right now he’s workingun Box Elder Country — which is outside die localjSUP service area — for what he calls "the fan of in because his family owns a farm there So far he has listed approximately 350 historical points of interest fa Cache Franklin Rich and Bear Lake counties and he expects die list to grow The problem is resolving the definition of a "historic point of interest” What is interesting to one person may not be interesting at aU to another "So I’ve tried to be inclusive” he says "If anybody thinks a spot has historical significance I’ve included and sign mark the spot where lim Bridget (namesake of Bridgerland) made his camp in 1824 The sign also notes tfurt the place was a possible location of the mountainman rendezvous in 1826 You can drive close to the site from the southwest or canoe the Bear River to the intersection with the Cub and look south- The iL The compilation is diverse — everything from and mail routes to gold mines and banks trails rails of a diflreeat sort Allen says he could do aa entire series oncemeteries alone m Cache Valley and he could filmnother vofaune easily concenMfag only oq histone homes in the area Neari£tveqr link community in the valley has sev- - west 2 WILLIAM HYDE MEMORIALS— In the Hyde Park Cemetery there is an outstanding series of monuments to William Hyde a prominent resident of Cache and a member of the Mormon Battalion The later wpBwlwl tn twwww memorial tn all lit the soldiers from the area who served in the War and World War L w Spanish-Americ- an 3 ELDER JAMES GIBBS GRAVESITE— In the Paradise Cemetery is a memorial to Elder lames Gibbs the first Mormon missionary from Cache during service to his church Gibbs was murdered in Tennessee in 1884 The monument proeffort and hints at the coheject was a valley-wid- e siveness of the community Vfcl-leyki- 4 LOT SMITH HAND PLOW— At 3 N Main in Smithfield there rests a hand plow made by Lot man who Smith Brigham Young's right-haharassed Johnston's Army long enough that the federal troops were kept out Cache Valley for one more season The plow is interesting because it was made out of wagon parts heisted by Smith from Johnston's beleaguered army nd non Df nouovi nwionsnfTmB jounM 8tan Alan la sM tigging for ahee to add to Ns IsL says "They cut the grass and take care of the place so people put monuments there") The IDS Thbema-d- e in Login has five sites alone But those are the monuments people typically see Allen has offered a random Tbp-l- S list as a guide far people looking ft something a little different "Some of them are either oddball themselves or in ouHif-dievplaces" Eqjoy die search qr 1 JIM BRIDGED CAMPSITE— At the imer- - 5 NIELS P HJORTH MOLASSES MILL — This monument fa the Millville public park commemorates Ityorth and offers details about the mills that gave the town its name The fine print also points out that the site was home to a distillery where traveling gndles” lb whiskey was only sold which Allen adds with a chuckle: "You can believe that If you want to” to Set MARKERS m page U |