Lorin Farr - Miles Goodyear Cabin

This little cottonwood-log cabin may be the oldest building an Anglo settler raised in Utah. Miles Goodyear, a young mountain man who came west in 1836, built it around 1845 as part of Fort Buenaventura, his trading stockade on the Weber River, where California-bound emigrants stopped to rest and resupply. Goodyear had married a daughter of the Ute chief Pe-teet-neet, and lived at the meeting point of two worlds. The cabin, barely fourteen by eighteen feet with a dirt floor, has been moved more than once; the Daughters of Utah Pioneers have kept it since 1928.

What the plaque says

Miles Goodyear came west as a venturesome young man with the Whitman-Spaulding Expedition of 1836. He married a daughter of the Ute Chief, Pe-teet-neet, and located his stockade and cabin on the Weber River. This post became a stop-over and replenishment station for California-bound emigrants. Goodyear called his place Fort Buenaventura. The cabin was built of sawed cottonwood logs in 1845 by Goodyear. Its dimensions are 14'4"x17"9". The original floors were dirt. As the foundation logs sat on the ground, they rotted away and have been replaced. In addition, some of the lumber in the door and the windows was sawed after 1847. Originally located on the Weber River two miles above the Ogden River confluence, the cabin has been moved several times. In 1928 it was donated to the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers.

Where it stands

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