Preserving the History

Museum Collections

The monument maintains a small archive of unique items depicting the monument’s history. These items are cataloged and maintained to strict museum standards. The collection includes photos, oral history recording, building designs, original maps, wildlife specimens, mineral formations, and historic artifacts. Visits can be arranged for research purposes only by contacting the monument’s historian, Cami Pulham.

Cami Pulham showing the

museum’s full soda pop bottle

Oral History

Many of the key historical figures from Timpanogos Cave NM were interviewed to preserve the stories of the monument. This project has been recurring, work was performed in the mid-1960s by Wayne McDaniel, 1987 by Rod Horrocks and Mark Evans, 1995 by Rod Horrocks and the Redd Center at Brigham Young University, and being continued by Cami Pulham. So far 21 individuals have been interviewed including the cave discoverers, the park superintendents, and several miners who worked in the canyon during the early days of the monument.

Sharlene & Alan Walker receives award for

contributions to the monument’s history

Administrative History

This project details the significant events that shaped the monument. The document will cover subject such as the creation of the monument and the landmark events in the divisions of Administration, Maintenance, Interpretation, Law Enforcement and Emergency Response, and Science and Resource Management. A draft of the Administrative History has been completed and is presently being closely reviewed. The resulting product should be available by end of 2007.

Draft Design for Administrative History

Hike Through History

Hike Through History is a pictorial history display created by Suzanne Flory of the construction and use of the trail to Timpanogos Cave. This exhibit was originally a winter display for the Visitor Center that was converted into a webpage.

Maintained by Cami Pulham - last updated November 14, 2006.