Ogden City Wall/Golden Spike (2) Markers

In 1854, in the wake of the Walker War with the Ute, Ogden's settlers walled their town — a rock-and-mud rampart a mile square, eight feet high, with four gates, thrown up by five hundred men. They paid for it with a tax of forty dollars on every city lot and ten on every able-bodied man, and never quite finished the last side; by then, the inscription notes, the fighting had ended. The wall is long gone, but Wall Avenue still runs where its western face once stood.

What the plaque says

In 1854 Ogden pioneers built a rock and mud wall a mile square along 28th Street, Wall Avenue and 21st Street. Madison Avenue was not completed because the Indians became peaceful. The eight foot wall had a six foot base, a 31 inch top and four gates. The cost of $40,000 was raised by $40.00 tax on each city lot, also a $10.00 tax on every able bodied man over 18 years. The project was erected by 500 working men. Wall Avenue was named after this wall. Far South Weber County

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Ogden Union Station — 0.3 mi
  A grand 1924 train depot turned museum complex
• Snowbasin — 6.4 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 — 7.2 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

• Union Station- Golden Spike — steps away
• Belmont Building — 0.2 mi
• Watkins Grocery and Cranshaw Photograph — 0.2 mi
• Davenport Saloon — 0.3 mi