First House in Hooper

In the 1850s this was open range — the Weber Herd Ground, where Captain William H. Hooper ran his cattle. It was his hired herdsmen, not Hooper himself, who put up the settlement's first house, a two-story adobe, in 1854, and the town that grew here took his name though he was seldom in it. Hooper had larger stages: he served as Utah Territory's delegate to Congress and became the second president of ZCMI, succeeding Brigham Young. A place named for a man who mostly passed through.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Hill Aerospace Museum — 9.6 mi
  Over 90 military aircraft displayed indoors and on the tarmac
• Ogden Union Station — 10 mi
  A grand 1924 train depot turned museum complex
• Antelope Island State Park — 13 mi
  A rugged island in the Great Salt Lake with free-roaming bison
• Snowbasin — 15 mi
  One of the country's oldest ski areas and a 2002 Olympic downhill venue — world-class terrain that somehow still skis uncrowded.

More markers nearby

• Muskrat Springs-Hooper — 2.1 mi
• General Thomas L. Kane Civil War Memorial — 4.1 mi
• Clinton — 4.2 mi
• First Post Office in Roy — 4.8 mi