(The Salt Lake Tribune) A child plays at the stump of the Lone Cedar Tree in Salt Lake City in 1943. (Steve Griffin | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Lone Cedar Tree marker at 316 S. 600 East. From a small window, I could gaze down the street and see the top of the structure of the Lone Cedar Tree monument. “LONE CEDAR TREE,” it states in all caps. “Although willows grew along the banks of the streams, a Lone Cedar Tree near this spot became Utah’s first famous landmark.