North Ogden

North Ogden started with one house and never finished its fort. Thomas Dunn, the settlement's first presiding elder, put up a six-room adobe home on this block in 1851. Two years later, as alarm spread in 1853, Brigham Young told the settlers to wall in ten blocks for defense — but the work went slowly, and when the fear eased the wall was simply abandoned half-built. A tense moment came in 1854, when a group of Ute people held a war dance around Dunn's house; it ended without bloodshed. The old adobe home later served the city as offices.

What the plaque says

During the Indian uprisings in 1853 Brigham Young instructed the settlers to build a fort wall around ten blocks including this block upon which Thomas Dunn, the first presiding elder, had erected a six room adobe home in 1851. In 1854 a band of Indians staged a war dance around the house. They were finally pacified and peace restored. The fort wall was never completed as work was abandoned when Indian trouble subsided. After 1952 the city used the home for offices and council meetings.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Ogden Union Station — 5.8 mi
  A grand 1924 train depot turned museum complex
• Snowbasin — 8.2 mi
  One of the country's oldest ski areas and a 2002 Olympic downhill venue — world-class terrain that somehow still skis uncrowded.
• Powder Mountain — 11 mi
  The largest ski resort in the United States by acreage — a famously uncrowded "PowMow" now remaking itself under Netflix's Reed Hastings.
• Hill Aerospace Museum — 13 mi
  Over 90 military aircraft displayed indoors and on the tarmac

More markers nearby

• Peter Skeen Ogden — 0.9 mi
• Pleasant Green Taylor — 2.2 mi
• Stage Coach Station — 2.3 mi
• Martin Henderson Harris — 2.4 mi