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 First Public Building -- Alpine - Alpine, UT, USA
N 40° 27.657 W 111° 46.494
12T E 434301 N 4479208
This marker is situated on the north end of the Alpine Cemetery, near the site of the first public building in Alpine, Utah, a meeting- and schoolhouse. It was built in 1851 and moved three years later to the fort about half a mile south.
Waymark Code: WMHGN4
Location: Utah, United States
Date Posted: 07/09/2013
Views: 3
This historical marker is attached to a base made of multiple rocks and masonry that stands at the north end of the Alpine Cemetery, along Pioneer Drive (600 North), just east of Main Street. The marker reads:
Daughters of Utah Pioneers
No. 276
Erected 1962
First Public Building -- Alpine
Three rods north of this site the settlers
built their first meeting and school house in 1851,
a small log structure with roof of split logs
and dirt, log benches and a fireplace of granite.
Charles S. Peterson, Roswell Stevens and Morris
Phelps, building committee. An L.D.S. Ward was
organized Sept. 18, 1852, Isaac Houston, Bishop. In
1854 a fort was erected and the building moved
into the N.W. corner. In 1863 a rock meeting
house 21' x 32' was built on the Public Square
which served for church and civic purposes
until 1872, Thomas J. McCullough, Bishop.
Mountainville Camp North Utah County, Utah
Marker Name: First Public Building -- Alpine
Marker Number: 276
Marker Text:
First Public Building -- Alpine
Three rods north of this site the settlers built their first meeting and school house in 1851, a small log structure with roof of split logs and dirt, log benches and a fireplace of granite. Charles S. Peterson, Roswell Stevens and Morris Phelps, building committee. An L.D.S. Ward was organized Sept. 18, 1852, Isaac Houston, Bishop. In 1854 a fort was erected and the building moved into the N.W. corner. In 1863 a rock meeting house 21' x 32' was built on the Public Square which served for church and civic purposes until 1872, Thomas J. McCullough, Bishop.
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