My Own Kind of Wonderful: Day 8 COVE FORT

After we left Cedar City, on the way back to SLC we stopped at Cove Fort which is just a mile off the I-15.

It was a great place to stop, go to the bathroom, stretch our legs, and see something neat for about half an hour. You can also picnic here.

In 1867 Pres. Brigham Young asked Pres. Hinckley's father, Ira Hinckley to be in charge of building a fort here. It was a way station for weary travellers, an important telegraph station, and the pony express used it as a postal station. There were two stage coaches arriving daily, it was a busy place.

Thick walls.

Original trees still growing (but definitely getting old). Six rooms on the south, and six on the north, each with a fireplace and separate outside door, but the rooms are also connected with a door inside from room to room.

The telegraph

very cool old stove. the bread pans in the upper right corner of the picture are huge... making a 5 lb. loaf of bread.

the blacksmith shop out back that Ira Hinckley ran. He learned the trade back in Nauvoo when he was young.

actually Brigham Young's hat. Made from beaver pelt

the kids were totally grossed out by the 'art' hanging on the wall. Made from human hair, called hair art.

You can see the sillouette of a woman wearing a choker neclace (profile view facing left), all made from hair.

This was Ira Hinckley's family home before coming to Cove Fort (it was moved here from Coalville when the fort was refurbished).

After Cove Fort we drove to Provo where we found our friend Mackenzie who is going to school at BYU. We went for lunch at Hogi Yogi, fulfilling another long time dream of Marissa's, hahaha.