A commitment to
keeping history alive.

The Cache Valley Historical Society (CVHS) is the oldest local chapter of the Utah State Historical Society. CVHS began in 1951 and some of it’s early members included Joel E. Ricks, Leonard Arrington, George Ellsworth, J. Duncan Brite, and Merlin Hovey. The organization is unique in the West in that it includes an area involving two states.

Our Monthly Lectures

  • Lecture: May 14, 2025
    Our May lecture will be on Wednesday, May 14, at 7pm at the Logan Library (285 N Main). “Buffalo Soldiers in Utah & Utah’s New Historic Trail” will be presented by Robert Burch, Alice Faulkner Burch, and Greg Mason and Sema Hadithi African American Heritage and Culture Foundation. This presentation will give an over-view of… Read more: Lecture: May 14, 2025

2025 Calendar

  • January 15 – Utah in the Green Book and other African American travel books
  • February 12 – Brent Rogers: Buffalo Bill Cody and the Mormons (with a Cache Valley twist)
  • March 12 – Rebecca Anderson: Utah’s Cold War Landscapes
  • April 9 – USU Scholarship winners
  • May 14 – Robert Burch and Sema Hadithi African American Heritage and Culture Foundation: Buffalo Soldiers in Utah
  • June 11 – Gary Bergera and the Arrington Diaries
  • September 10 – TBD
  • October 8 – Professor Paul Reeve will discuss African American History in Cache Valley
  • November 12 – TBD

More information in each lecture will be added very soon.

Lectures take place on the second Wednesday of the month at 7pm at the Logan Library (285 N Main), unless otherwise noted.