Layton Farmers' Union

This store started a town. The Kaysville Farmers' Union was the first business in the farm country north of Kaysville — and its owners were sick of paying Kaysville taxes for nothing in return. So they dropped Kaysville from the name, called it the Layton Farmers' Union, and made the store the headquarters of a revolt. In 1890 they raised a grand two-story brick building on Main Street that doubled as meeting hall, bank, and post office. The fight went to the Utah Supreme Court, and the new town won its name — Layton, after the store's own owner.

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 — 6.4 mi
  A beloved family amusement park operating since 1886
• Ogden Union Station — 11 mi
  A grand 1924 train depot turned museum complex
• Snowbasin — 12 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 Veterans Park — steps away
• Stage Coach Station — steps away
• Layton's Little Fort — 0.7 mi
• Joseph Morgan, Early Layton Pioneer — 1.6 mi