Utah Heritage Foundation

The Mormon Pioneer National Heritage Area (MPNHA) isn’t just about Mormon heritage.  Oh, sure, there are all of those New Urbanist Mormon colonial villages based on Joseph Smith’s Plat of Zion, and the Manti Temple (far left), and several Mormon Heritage centers are in the works.  (Historian Jerry Roundy displays concepts for the Escalante Heritage Center, right). 

UHF is helping connect people along Highway 89 with new ideas and cooperative marketing opportunities.  We believe this will result in more engagement by the public and businesses along the route, more visitation, and increased opportunities to preserve the heritage area’s important landmarks and communities.

POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT

Traditional Building Skills Institute Director

The Hunter House restoration has been taken over by a SWATC team.  High school students enrolled in the Southwest Applied Technology College (SWATC) building construction class are repairing plaster, restoring a fireplace, and stripping and refinishing wood trim as part of the second phase of work on the historic home.  Other contractors began the restoration with repair of the foundation and re-roofing after the house was moved to the Frontier Homestead State Park Museum (formerly Iron Mission State Park) in 2005 to prevent its demolition.  Utah Heritage Foundation was instrumental in the advocacy process that led to arrangements for saving it.

Updated

The newly formed Uinta-Wasatch-Cache Forest Association seeks individuals that are interested in Forest Service issues, and would be committed and hardworking Board members for this new association.  In the past the Forest Service has performed historic cabin restoration projects, participated in the Traditional Building Skills Institute in Ephraim, and conducted important master planning throughout the service region.

Gravestone Restoration at Traditional Building Skills Institute (TBSI) at Snow College, Ephraim

Date: August 20-22, 2009

Participants in this workshop will learn many of the various aspects of gravestone and cemetery preservation. Participants are encouraged to bring photographs of historic masonry, sculptures, or gravestones that they have concerns or questions about.