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My Home Town, Ogden, Utah

History
While nomadic Shoshone tribes would frequent the Ogden area in the winter, the first permanent European settlement of what would be Utah occurred in 1846 by a trapper named Miles Goodyear. He established a way station called Fort Buenaventura about a half mile west of current downtown Ogden near the banks of the Weber River. In November of 1847, Goodyear’s fort and 210 square miles of land were purchased for the amount of $1,950 by James Brown under the direction of Brigham Young with the intent of the area to become a Mormon settlement. Known first as Brownsville, the name was changed to Ogden when the City was incorporated on February 6th, 1851, in honor of brigade leader of the Hudson Bay Company Peter Skene Ogden who had been in the region a decade earlier. From 1851 to 1870, Ogden was a small agrarian community with a population in 1860 of 1,463 people.

Church Records
Family Search Web Site FamilySearch Catalog

Cemeteries
Ogden City Cemetery. Established in 1851 as part of Ogden City Charter, Ogden City provides for the burial of humans in the Ogden City Cemetery and for the burial of pets in the Tiffany Mack Memorial Pet Cemetery. Cemetery grounds are maintained according to perpetual care provisions, and cemetery records are available online for public access.

Newspapers
Ogden Standard Examiner Weber Sentinel News

Libraries and Museums
Weber County Pioneer Museum

Societies
Utah State Historical Society Islamic Society of Ogden

City Directories
Ogden City Main City Directory