Early Morgan County Settlers

Thousands passed through this valley on the trail west before anyone thought to stop and stay. That began in 1855, when Charles Shreve Peterson cut a road through Weber Canyon and moved his family into the bottomland — the first of a scatter of small settlements that eventually merged into Morgan. The county was carved out in 1862 and named for Jedediah Morgan Grant, a Latter-day Saint leader who never lived here. The railroad through Weber Canyon put the town on the map in 1869. This monument in Morgan keeps the founders' names.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lagoon Amusement Park — 12 mi
  A beloved family amusement park operating since 1886
• Hill Aerospace Museum — 15 mi
  Over 90 military aircraft displayed indoors and on the tarmac
• Snowbasin — 16 mi
  One of the country's oldest ski areas and a 2002 Olympic downhill venue — world-class terrain that somehow still skis uncrowded.
• Emigration Canyon — 20 mi
  The final stretch of trail the Mormon pioneers took into the valley

More markers nearby

• Korean War Veterans Memorial — steps away
• World War I Monument — steps away
• Old Rock Mill — 11 mi
• Pioneer Cabin — 11 mi