Provo Pioneer Village

APRIL 1ST -  FOUNDER'S DAY

Each chapter of the Sons of Utah Pioneers has the opportunity to be associated with a pioneer monument. Our chapter has the privilege of working with the Pioneer Village in Provo. This is a one-of-a-kind village where the past comes alive, transporting us back in time to imagine what it was like to live in Provo when it was young.

Experience the life of the pioneers as you walk back into the early days of Provo when the settlers of 1849 had to survive in isolation.  The Pioneer Village contains the original structures built by these pioneers, including the Turner Cabin, the Haws Cabin, the Loveless Home, a granary, a school, a woodshop, a corn crib, an outhouse, and more.  The Pioneer Village also contains an ox shoeing stock, various pioneer wagons, a working blacksmith shop, an authentic mercantile general store, pioneer games for the children, and a wide variety of historical artifacts and tools.

This Pioneer Village represents early Provo, a frontier community that existed, in large part, in isolation.  The pioneers’ very survival depended on their own skills and the support of their neighbors and friends.  What they ate, they grew; what they wore, they made; and what they needed, they manufactured, or they did without.  Things were used and reused; little was discarded or thrown away.