Pioneer Bowery

A bowery was built near here in August 1904 for the celebration of the long-awaited arrival of water to the Hurricane Bench and to name this new town. After twelve years of back-breaking work, the Virgin River water, carried seven ...

Convict Camp and Wagon Road

In 1915 prisoners from the Utah State Prison camped here among these very rocks. They were detailed to build a wagon road up the fault, directly east from here. Remnants of the road can still bee seen with its lava ...

Baden-Sproule House

Designed by noted Galveston architect Nicholas J. Clayton, this house was built in 1899 by Ida B. Baden on land once known as Thomas Borden's farm. West Island landowner John D. Settle sold Miss Baden the land and assisted here ...

Haven Peaches

The Haven peach varieties were developed here by Michigan State University's South Haven Experiment Station, under the direction of Professor Stanley Johnston. From 1924 to 1963, eight yellow-fleshed freestone varieties were selected from more than twenty-one thousand cross-bred seedlings. They ...

Jackson at Harpers Ferry

The Stonewall Brigade

As you explore Jefferson County’s Civil War sites, you will learn about some of the notable exploits on the native soil of Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson, one of the wars most famous figures. Jackson was born in Clarksburg, ...

Heritage Home and Pioneer Corner

Original Home of Ira E. and Marion Hinton Bradshaw

Built 1906-08

(Placed on the National Register of Historic Places – 1991)

This plain carpenters’ Victorian eclectic style home, with a cross-wing and stone foundation and cellar was the first permanent ...

Hurricane Pioneers

In 1863 settlers of the upper Virgin River whose lands were being washed away made preliminary surveys for irrigating and occupying these lands. Erastus Snow, David H.

Cannon and Nephi Johnson came down the hill over an old Indian trail, with ...

Early Day Wood Beam Walking Hand Plow

This plow was donated to the museum by Mr. and Mrs. Leslie E. Nelson, of Hurricane,

Utah.

History of the plow is from Mr. Nelson’s grandmother, Hulda Ellertson Kay, who was housekeeper for Apostle Hyde during the period of 1875.

The Nelson family ...

City Park

The Belfast Ladies Improvement Society lobbied the city council in April of 1904 to establish a seaside park for the benefit of the public. The purchase price of the 15 acre lot was $3,000 and, once secured, prominent Boston landscape ...

The James P. White House

Designed by Architect Calvin Ryder and built in 1840, the James Patterson White House is considered the finest example of domestic Greek Revival architecture in Maine. Born in 1800 in a log house not far from this site, James White ...