Known as Utah’s first ghost town, the ruins of Old Irontown can be found 22 miles from Cedar City. Southern Utah saw a population boom in the 1850s as Mormon pioneers were called to populate the area by Brigham Young after iron was discovered there. The pioneers of this ghost town needed iron as part of their daily lives, and they used it in everything from Dutch ovens to wagon wheels. The Great Western Iron Company built two charcoal ovens to help meet the pioneer’s needs. In 1870 Old Irontown…
