Pioneer Museum

Home of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers
Silvercreek Valley Camp

Tours available through the Snowflake/Taylor chamber of commerce and Taylor Museum

Built in 1930 for the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers to hold meetings and share stories of their pioneer ancestors. It was converted to a museum in 1997.

The Daughters of Utah Pioneers Jane Hatch Camp building at 14 S 400 E was constructed in 1937 as a community effort with most of the labor donated.  It has served as a place for quilting, community parties, and meetings.  The 20-30 Club took over care of the building in the late 1940’s.  It served as the first heritage museum in Taylor beginning in 1997. 

“In the 1960s Walt and Ann Hatch Lewis and Ella May Willis McCleve pressed and organized efforts to remodel the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers’ house (Ella May laid up the , flagstone on the fireplace, a skill she had demonstrated in many of the town’s homes) which later became the town’s first small museum.”

In 1967 several men and women met and organized the Taylor Historical Society.

Laura Hunt Saline was the president and active officers and participants included Otto Palmer, Elizabeth Shumway, June Hatch, Pearl Solomon, Ann Lewis and Ida Webb. They would gather many of the artifacts that would grace the first Pioneer Museum.

See “A History Of Taylor And Shumway” by Arvin Palmer. Pages 204 and 242.

https://azmemory.azlibrary.gov/nodes/view/260959

In 2025 the Daughters of Utah Pioneers re-established a camp in the building.  It is now the Silver Creek Valley Camp with meetings on the 1st Monday of each month from September to April.

Available for tours through the Snowflake/Taylor Chamber of Commerce (928) 536-4331