Liberty

The Ute chief Little Soldier had a name for this place first: Little Valley. His people knew the high pocket of the Ogden Valley long before the trappers of the Hudson's Bay Company passed through in 1825, and long before Moroni Campbell's family wintered here in 1859. More settlers came in 1860, and one of them, John Freeman, renamed the settlement Liberty. The Latter-day Saint ward organized in 1892. The valley the Utes called little became a quiet farming community under the mountains, but the older name is the one the land wore first.

What the plaque says

Liberty was called Little Valley by the Ute Indian Chief, Little Soldier. The first white men to visit this locality were trappers for Hudson Bay Fur Company, 1825. Here the Moroni Campbell family spent the winter of 1859, followed by other settlers who came in 1860. John Freeman renamed the settlement Liberty. The Latter-Day Saint ward was organized in 1892 with Joshua B. Judkins, Bishop. Camp Durfee

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Powder Mountain — 5.4 mi
  The largest ski resort in the United States by acreage — a famously uncrowded "PowMow" now remaking itself under Netflix's Reed Hastings.
• Snowbasin — 8.1 mi
  One of the country's oldest ski areas and a 2002 Olympic downhill venue — world-class terrain that somehow still skis uncrowded.
• Ogden Union Station — 9.5 mi
  A grand 1924 train depot turned museum complex
• Hill Aerospace Museum — 16 mi
  Over 90 military aircraft displayed indoors and on the tarmac

More markers nearby

• Indian Trails Monument — 2.0 mi
• Eden World War II Memorial — 3.5 mi
• Peter Skeen Ogden — 4.6 mi
• North Ogden — 5.4 mi