Founders monument. A tribute to the families that contributed to the founding of Southern Utah University, 1897-1898. 148 family names listed.
351 West University Blvd (SUU Campus).
The following description can be found at the site:
Rob Will was one of the men that participated in the grueling work depicted here. Of the faithful horse he once remarked,
“Anyway, I was as convinced as those men were, that had it not been for “Old Sorrel” (who was not at all old at the time), that that company of 11 men and 21 horses, would have perished on one of the dugways along the old Jensen Mill Road, regardless of how faithful or willing, [and] other ways their horses were.
When I hear the children of those men say, “Why give old Sorrel all the credit, Hank and Rum, or Pack and Tim, [or] Nance and Jake, or some other team were the best in the country” I can only answer that I, a boy of 18, lay beside their fathers on the sawdust of the old mill shed that night, and heard them testify that Old Sorrel was their Savior on that occasion.”