Knightsville School Foundation

United States historic place


Knightsville School Foundation
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


39°57′16″N 112°05′58″W / 39.95444°N 112.09944°W / 39.95444; -112.09944
Area	less than one acre
Built	1909
MPS	Tintic Mining District MRA
NRHP reference No.	79003485^[1]
Added to NRHP	March 14, 1979

The Knightsville School Foundation, in Knightsville, Utah near Eureka, Utah, is the ruin of a historic school built in 1909. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.^[1]

The foundation is about 40 by 40 feet (12 m × 12 m) in plan.^[2]

It was deemed significant as "the only remnant of Knightsville, founded in 1896-1897, reportedly the only privately owned, saloon-free, prostitute-free mining town in the United States (because of its founder Jesse Knight, an ardent Mormon). The school was built in 1909, contracted by one Martin E. Andersen of Logan, Utah, and the foundation was made of gravel and rock from the Mayday Mine dump (on the hill west of the town)."^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
^ ^a ^b "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Knightsville School Foundation". National Park Service. Retrieved October 10, 2019. With accompanying photo from 1977