Pioneer Cabin

The pioneers who founded Plain City in 1859 came from Lehi looking for open ground and found it at the dry tail of the Ogden River: good soil, not enough water. Their first year's crop failed. So they dug a nine-mile canal by hand, dragging a scraper of split logs weighted down with their men, until the water reached the fields. The log cabins went up from timber hauled from North Ogden Canyon. One of those houses still stands, moved behind the church and kept by the Daughters of Utah Pioneers, the last roof from the town's hard start.

What the plaque says

Daughters of Utah Pioneers No. 89 Erected July 18, 1946 Pioneer Cabin Plain City was settled in 1859 by a group of pioneers from Lehi. The city was laid out in five acre squares of four lots each. The work was done at night, with the North Star as a guide, to mark the blocks accurately. This cabin was built by John Carver Sr., and was typical of all homes built here in pioneer days. Plain City Camp — Weber Co.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Ogden Union Station — 7.9 mi
  A grand 1924 train depot turned museum complex
• Hill Aerospace Museum — 10 mi
  Over 90 military aircraft displayed indoors and on the tarmac
• Snowbasin — 13 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 — 17 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

• Peter Skene Ogden — 3.9 mi
• Chosin Reservoir Campaign Monument (Korea) — 4.3 mi
• Stage Coach Station — 4.6 mi
• Martin Henderson Harris — 4.9 mi