BRIGHAM CITY, Utah, Oct. 24, 2023 (Gephardt Daily) — A proud Box Elder County launched a dozen posts on social media Tuesday as the giant Golden Spike Monument visited after two days at the state Capitol.
The online sharing on the county’s social media included three videos and more than 100 photos of the 43-foot gold-leaf replica as it visited its future home.
Joining in the online frenzy over the 8,000-pound monolith was the Brigham City Corporation and the Brigham City Museum of Art and History as the edifice rolled down Brigham City’s Main Street just after 4 p.m. Tuesday
Brainchild of the Golden Spike Foundation, which formed in 2019 for the 150th anniversary of the May 10, 1869, driving of the historic spike, the giant creation will eventually anchor an under-construction Golden Spike Park just west of Brigham City.
The huge spike has been on a whistle-stop tour that began Oct. 5, in Lexington, Kentucky, where the spike was built, commissioned by the foundation with an estimated price tag of $1 million, according to Brigham City Mayor D.J. Bott.
The tour begins again in April 2024 after winter storage currently planned for Utah County. April 27 it heads out to California and Nevada before returning to Utah in May. Its route can be tracked on the Golden Spike Foundation’s website, spike150.org.
In addition to the money to pay an artisan to create the spike, the foundation plans to spend and is fundraising for, another $2 million or more for the 8-acre Golden Spike Park. There the 43-footer will loom over Interstate-15 west of Brigham City.
