Hancock Cabin

The Hancock Cabin was built circa 1884–1890 using hand-hewn squared logs near Silver Creek. It was home to Margaret McCleve Hancock and her husband Mosiah Lyman Hancock. Margaret, born in 1838 in Belfast, Ireland, made the thirteen-hundred-mile journey from Illinois to Utah with the 1856 Mormon Handcart Company.

In 1879, Mosiah and Margaret left Utah to help settle Taylor. Margaret was set apart to minister to the sick and served as a midwife, delivering more than 1,400 babies during her years in Taylor. The couple raised thirteen children in this small cabin.

During the early 1920s, the cabin served as a schoolhouse. In 1925, it was relocated and enclosed within a larger structure, which inadvertently preserved the original logs. Restoration was completed in 2001: all later additions were removed and the cabin was relocated to the southeast corner of Main and Willow Streets. It is now open to visitors as part of the Taylor Museum complex.