The Relief Society in Deseret was first organized in September 1877, and its members met in each other’s homes until 1878, when they built a large one-room adobe hall. In 1894 they decided to construct a new Relief Society Hall and began raising money by donating and saving what they could, but when the General Relief Society Board of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints called for contributions to build the new General Relief Society Hall in Salt Lake City, Utah, the Deseret Relief Society sent all of its funds and delayed its own project. The women later resumed their plans, sold their adobe building, received donated land, raised funds, and had labor volunteered by men in the LDS Ward. Construction costs were $743.65 for the building and $21.00 for the outhouse. From 1906 until 1934, when the new chapel was completed, the hall hosted Relief Society meetings, socials, dances, and plays. It is the oldest remaining LDS church building in the community and has served many functions over the years. After the chapel burned in 1929, it was again used for church services, and it also housed public school classes after the A.C. Nelson School burned. Boy Scouts met there for several years. The Deseret Irrigation Company later bought the building and used it for meetings and storage, then deeded it to the Daughters of Utah Pioneers, Fanny Powell Cropper Camp, on February 7, 1995. It is now used for DUP meetings and for the display of pioneer memorabilia.