Lorin Farr - Washington Blvd

Lorin Farr was Ogden's first mayor, and for decades its leading citizen — a Latter-day Saint colonizer sent north in 1850 to organize the Weber settlements, where he built the area's first gristmill and sawmill and presided over the town's early growth. This marker on Washington Boulevard remembers him. Farr belongs to a particular type in Utah history: the all-purpose frontier leader who was at once ecclesiastical authority, civic official, and industrial pioneer — the three roles barely distinguished in a young Mormon town building everything at once.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Ogden Union Station — 0.2 mi
  A grand 1924 train depot turned museum complex
• Snowbasin — 5.9 mi
  One of the country's oldest ski areas and a 2002 Olympic downhill venue — world-class terrain that somehow still skis uncrowded.
• Hill Aerospace Museum — 7.1 mi
  Over 90 military aircraft displayed indoors and on the tarmac
• Powder Mountain — 15 mi
  The largest ski resort in the United States by acreage — a famously uncrowded "PowMow" now remaking itself under Netflix's Reed Hastings.

More markers nearby

• Lorin Farr (2) Markers — steps away
• John Henry Weber — steps away
• Jedediah Strong Smith - Ogden — steps away
• Captain James Brown — steps away