Pioneer Museum

The Pioneer Museum was built in 1937 as a meeting place for the local Daughters of the Utah Pioneers. The structure was a community effort with most of the labor donated by local volunteers. It features a flagstone fireplace with stonework laid by Ella May Willis McCleve.

The building was converted into a museum in 1997 through collaboration between a local group and the Taylor/Shumway Heritage Foundation. It opened to the public on July 5, 1997, making it Taylor’s first heritage museum.

The museum displays the celebrated Jennings Drum, constructed by Major Edward P. Duzette in 1840 in Nauvoo, Illinois, and hauled across the plains with Brigham Young in 1847. It also houses a covered wagon that served in the Old West for 65 years and other pioneer-era artifacts.