It is now May 19th and we have moved into the Holiday Inn Express in Cedar City, UT while the motorhome is being repaired. We certainly could have been stuck in worse places! Cedar City in a nice town, home to Southern Utah University. We are not lacking places to eat, but we are getting tired of eating out!
Right in the middle of town is the Frontier Homestead State Park. It's just $3.00 per person to get in and they have done a wonderful job with their displays. Inside is a small gift shop and beyond that a huge display of horse drawn carriages and stage coaches. There is also a section on the National Parks and the people that work in them. I could have sat all day and read the employees accounts of their time in the parks! They are collecting these memories and have a large notebook out for the public to read. Fascinating!
Outside were several restored buildings. One was an old log schoolhouse. It had the teachers quarters on the second floor.
There were numerous pieces of old equipment, a sawmill, sheep shearing shed and a 19th century iron foundry.
The workers that were sent to set up the iron foundry would set up "box camps" until more permanent quarters could be built. They would take the wheels off the wagons, add a privacy fence for the cooking area and live in the wagons.
There was one interesting hands-on display. It was a wagon loaded with a box representing the weight of the essentials needed. Then you could pick and choose from other boxes up to the maximum weight. Would you take fine china or tools, heirlooms or candles and lanterns, toys or dried fruit? Aren't we lucky our lives don't depend on what we take when we move?
If you are ever in Cedar City, this state park is well worth an afternoon!
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