Origninal Pioneer Settlers of Weber County Who Arrived with Their Families in 1848

Weber County was settled in 1848, the year after the first companies reached the Salt Lake Valley — making it one of the earliest Latter-day Saint settlements outside Salt Lake itself. The pioneers who came north to the Weber and Ogden rivers built on ground where the trader Miles Goodyear had already established a small fort, which the Mormons bought out. This marker, placed in 2007, names those founding families — honoring the specific people behind a familiar abstraction by recording who actually arrived, and when.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Ogden Union Station — 0.3 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

• Ogden Municipal Building — steps away
• John Henry Weber — steps away
• Jedediah Strong Smith - Ogden — steps away
• Captain James Brown — steps away