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Virtual Cache American Fork Fort Wall
A  cache by SirGerald       Hidden: 6/10/2002  
Size: Size: Virtual (Virtual)      Difficulty: 1 out of 5      Terrain: 1 out of 5 (1 is easiest, 5 is hardest)
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N/S ? ??.??? W/E ??? ??.???  []
In Utah, United States

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City Historical Marker of the South Wall of the American Fork fort built by early pioneers.

This is a monument placed in the city park by the Daughters of Utah Pioneers. The monument is well known and USED TO feature a large bell from the first city hall (as seen in the photo). In the Spring of 2006, the city moved the bell back to city hall and installed it in a new bell tower.

New Utah! article about the Fort
New Utah! article about the City Bell

Fort Wall Monument

Text from the plaque on the EAST side of the monument:

"In 1852 Mormon Pioneers who had settled on the American Fork creek received orders to build a fort for protection from indians. Most cabins were moved into an enclosure 80x74 rods, covering 37 acres. By 1855 each of the families built a wall 12x6 feet across the rear of his lot, using clay poured into log forms. A tax was levied to erect a corral in center of the fort with gates at corners. This monument marks the south wall. The bell was on the first city hall and tolled for all meetings and curfew at nine."

I thought this was a worthy site for a virtual cache. The same park also features a couple of log cabins from the same period.


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Lunchtime Cache Wheelchair Access Available year-round Less than 500 ft. from car to cache
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available in winter available 24-7 picnic tables available telephone nearby takes less than 1  hour kid friendly restrooms available drinking water nearby parking available wheelchair accessible blank blank
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Cache Logs
 November 10 by HikingSeal (2660 found)
Neat little park and history lesson. Thanks for bringing us here.

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 October 26 by SSG Mac (155 found)
Checking out the new app for the Iphone. TFTC

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 October 22 by had5vl (516 found)
Thanks for the history lesson about early American Fork. TFTVC e-mail sent


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 October 21 by Mzblubrd (2026 found)
Verified -- Thanks for bringing me here. I love virtuals, another monument found today. TFTC

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 October 11 by justgingernboyz (3366 found)
Found with Furbrat and family, the catz, Yale Hockey Mom, and Vanelle. This was one of 210 caches we did on today's run. Nice trail of caches! Saw a lot of cachers out there on the trail today. We were in Salt Lake City, UT for the Geo Coin Fest 2009, and decided to get up early and get the trail done with a few more in Lehi too. TFTC! Sending email with answers :)

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Current time: 11/22/2009 5:30:20 AM
Last Updated: 11/12/2009 3:34:33 PM
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Coordinates are in the WGS84 datum

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