Joseph Morgan, Early Layton Pioneer

Joseph Morgan walked into Utah in 1853 with almost nothing, and for his first years on the Layton bench home was a hole in the ground — a dugout beside Holmes Creek at this site, 1854 to 1856. The single, unlettered Englishman worked the claim into a homestead his family would hold for more than a century. In 2018 his great-great-grandchildren sold the family pasture to the church, two days before it announced the Layton Temple — which now rises on Morgan's old homestead ground.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Hill Aerospace Museum — 4.0 mi
  Over 90 military aircraft displayed indoors and on the tarmac
• Lagoon Amusement Park — 5.7 mi
  A beloved family amusement park operating since 1886
• Ogden Union Station — 11 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.

More markers nearby

• Layton's Little Fort — 1.4 mi
• Stage Coach Station — 1.5 mi
• Layton Farmers' Union — 1.6 mi
• Layton Veterans Park — 1.7 mi