This monument near the Old Rock Church in Mt. Carmel commemorates community founder Dr. Priddy Meeks and the settlement of Mt. Carmel and Long Valley.
United Order Monument at Orderville Stake Center
This monument near the Old Rock Church in Mt. Carmel commemorates community founder Dr. Priddy Meeks and the settlement of Mt. Carmel and Long Valley.
Dr. Priddy Meeks & Long Valley Settlement Monument
Orderville Mercintile and Soup Town Cafe
The Soup Town Café is a wonderful café whose name is based on an old nickname for Orderville. It opens into the faithfully restored old merchantile, one of the last remaining rural ZCMI buildings. Inside is a handmade diarama of the old Orderville United Order.
Orderville Cemetary Tombstone Carvings
Long Valley has a long history of folk art carving including perhaps the best tombstone carving from Utah’s history. Several works of Valley has a long history of folk art carving including perhaps the best tombstone carving from Utah’s history. Several works of folk art can be viewed at the Orderville Cemetary.
Mt. Carmel Rock School and Church
The historic rock church in Mount Carmel was used to school the children living in the Mount Carmel area. The log building was built in 1880 and used as a church, school house and recreation hall. In 1890 it was converted into the stone structure In 1919 it burned down. In 1923 it was rebuilt, this time with rock. After the small building was rebuilt, the rock structure was used almost entirely as a church.
Maynard Dixon
Maynard Dixon, c.
1906
Maynard
Dixon was born in 1875 in Fresno,
California. He trained as an
artist in the early 1890s and was a successful illustrator for the rest of the
decade. Dixon admired the scenery of the American
West
and began to make tonalist
and impressionist paintings of its landscapes. In the 1920s, he shifted to a Precisionism style, influenced by
his then-wife Dorothea Lange. Many of Dixon's works included Native Americans and sometimes lived
in their reservations and the surrounding, undeveloped land. Dixon married
Edith Hamlin, a noted muralist
from San Francisco, California in 1937. Over two hundred of Dixon's works were
hosted in museums and art galleries
before his death in 1946.
The
Dixons moved to Mt. Carmel, Utah in 1939. Maynard
first visited the area in 1933 and made several paintings of the small town.
Mt. Carmel also proved to be an ideal launching area for excursions to Zion National Park, a place that proved to be an
inspiration for several of his most popular works. Maynard made plans to return
to Mt. Carmel almost as soon as he married Edith. They purchased an adjoining
lot and built a wine cellar and guesthouse. The Dixons spent summers in the Mt. Carmel home and
wintered in Tucson,
Arizona.
Maynard
Dixon last visited the home in 1945; his failing health from emphysema forced him to stay
in Tucson that summer and he died in his Tucson residence on November 11, 1946.
The next year, Edith buried his ashes beneath a boulder at the Mt. Carmel home
and installed a memorial plaque. Edith continued to summer in the Mt. Carmel
home, adding a large paint studio in 1948. She re-married in 1951 and moved
back to San Francisco in 1953. She later painted the murals of Coit Tower. Edith sold the
property to her friend, the famed watercolor artist Milford
Zornes.
Zornes occasionally used the property's studio for his own works. He sold the
house to the Binghams, who restored the building and the property.
United Order Woolen Mill Site and Hidden Lake
Orderville D.U.P. Museum
The Orderville DUP Museum hosts a wonderful collection of pioneer artifacts with a focus on the Orderville United Order. It is reported that the building is constructed from stone reused from the original United Order. They also have the United Order flag that flew in the community during its days living the order. (1-435-644-5726)
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