Original 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.

What the plaque says

Original Pioneer Settlers of Weber County Who Arrived with Their Families in 1848 James Brown Henry C. Shelton Louis B. Myers George W. Thurkill William Hutchens Robert Crow Reuben Henry Van Urban Stewart Artemus Sprague Daniel Burch Mrs. Ruth Stewart Dr. William McIntire Ezra Chase John Shaw Ambrose Shaw Charles Hubbard Jonathan Campbell Sanford Bingham William Stewart Donated by Ogden Pioneer Chapter Sons of Utah Pioneers Dedicated 2007

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Ogden Union Station — 0.3 mi
  A grand 1924 train depot turned museum complex
• Hill Aerospace Museum — 4.7 mi
  Over 90 military aircraft displayed indoors and on the tarmac
• 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.
• 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