The First Hundred Years...

On the first morning of classes in January 1889, about a hundred students crowded into a red-brick meetinghouse in Ogden. That was Weber Stake Academy, a church school for training teachers. Over the next century it changed names four times, went from church to state hands in the Depression, and nearly went back. In 1953, when the legislature moved to return the college to the church, Ogden voters rose up and kept it public. From those hundred students grew Weber State University, now on the east bench with tens of thousands enrolled — the town's school in every sense.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Ogden Union Station — 2.5 mi
  A grand 1924 train depot turned museum complex
• Snowbasin — 5.0 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 — 5.2 mi
  Over 90 military aircraft displayed indoors and on the tarmac
• Lagoon Amusement Park — 15 mi
  A beloved family amusement park operating since 1886

More markers nearby

• Malan Heights — 1.7 mi
• Sacred Heart Academy — 2.0 mi
• Bertha Eccles Community Art Center (2) Mark — 2.0 mi
• Weber College-The Moench Building — 2.2 mi