Frontier Homestead State Park Museum in Cedar City, Utah, preserves the intertwined history of southern Utah settlement, frontier life, and an early Mormon ironmaking venture. After iron deposits were discovered, Brigham Young called volunteers to colonize the area, and in 1851 a site near Coal Creek was chosen for iron works. Within ten months settlers had built a small blast furnace and foundry, but financial problems, floods, freezes, furnace failure, and crop shortages led to the foundry’s closure in 1858. Opened in 1980 and renamed in 2009, the museum now links that failed industry to daily pioneer life through vehicles, artifacts, cabins, farm equipment, and the surviving town bell from the original foundry.