Frontier Homestead State Park Museum
Cedar City, Utah
This museum mediates the early industrial history of Cedar City, Iron county, and Southwest Utah.
A lack of iron was a major issue for early pioneers who settled in Utah in 1847. Mormon leaders called for volunteers to colonise Cedar City, in 1851, the colony completed a blast furnace and began to operate an iron foundry.
The Iron Mission State Park developed in 1973 to interpret and preserve the history of the Iron process, later in 2009 the name was changed to The Frontier Homestead State Park.
This site was one of the the first that I photographed, to give me an idea of the different mediated narratives and how different states might interpret the drive West.
The curator Ryan Paul is also a university professor in Western American History and has supported my understanding of key historians work.
