Clinton

For a while, everyone here drank from a barrel. When the Hill and Hadlock families built the first homes in this Davis County stretch in 1870, there was no ditch yet, so they hauled their drinking water up from the Weber River by the barrelful until the Fife irrigation ditch reached them. The rest came together the way frontier towns did: a first schoolteacher, D. P. Davis, charging five dollars a child; a first midwife, Maren Mitchell; a first Sunday school. The names on the early land — Child, Muir, Stokes, Burnett, Elmer — are the town's foundation.

What the plaque says

In 1870, the Wm. J. Hill, Chauncey Hadlock families built homes in this area. Culinary water was brought from Weber River in barrels until the Fife Community Irrigation Ditch was finished. D. P. Davis, first school teacher, charged $5.00 per child. Other firsts: Peter Terry's spring; Maren J. Mitchell, midwife; John Bruce, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Sunday School Supt. Early landowners: Mark A. Child, John Muir, Wm. E. Stokes, James Burnett, Mark Elmer.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Hill Aerospace Museum — 5.6 mi
  Over 90 military aircraft displayed indoors and on the tarmac
• Ogden Union Station — 6.8 mi
  A grand 1924 train depot turned museum complex
• Snowbasin — 11 mi
  One of the country's oldest ski areas and a 2002 Olympic downhill venue — world-class terrain that somehow still skis uncrowded.
• Lagoon Amusement Park — 14 mi
  A beloved family amusement park operating since 1886

More markers nearby

• First Post Office in Roy — 0.8 mi
• Muskrat Springs-Hooper — 3.4 mi
• General Thomas L. Kane Civil War Memorial — 3.5 mi
• Syracuse First Social Center — 4.0 mi