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History of Utah, 1540-1886 - Brigham Young University

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FOUNDING OF OGDEN CITY. 307<br />

surveyed in the autumn <strong>of</strong> 1849, and the place was<br />

named Centreville.<br />

Near Centreville, in what was afterward Davis<br />

county, a settlement was begun in the spring <strong>of</strong> 1848<br />

by Peregrine Sessions, the place being called Bountiful.<br />

2<br />

As early as 1841 the country round where the city<br />

<strong>of</strong> Ogden was laid out was held as a Spanish grant by<br />

Miles M. Goodyear, who built a fort, consisting <strong>of</strong> a<br />

stockade and a "few log houses, near the confluence<br />

<strong>of</strong> the Weber and Ogden rivers. 3 On the 6th <strong>of</strong> a<br />

June, 1848, James Brown, <strong>of</strong> the battalion, coining<br />

from California with $5,000, mostly in gold-dust, purchased<br />

the tract from Goodyear. 4 As it was one <strong>of</strong><br />

the most fertile spots in all that region, grain and<br />

vegetables being raised in abundance, not only numbers<br />

<strong>of</strong> the brethren from Salt Lake City, but after<br />

a while gentiles from the western states, settled<br />

there. In August 1850 <strong>Brigham</strong> <strong>Young</strong>, Heber C.<br />

Kimball, Orson Hyde, and others laid out the city <strong>of</strong><br />

O^den, so called from the name <strong>of</strong> the river. 5 The<br />

2 A little to the south <strong>of</strong> Centreville was a small settlement which at first<br />

went by the name <strong>of</strong> Call's settlement, afterward taking the name Bountiful.<br />

<strong>Utah</strong> Early Records, MS., 132. In Sloan's <strong>Utah</strong> Gazetteer, 130-1, it is stated<br />

that there were three settlements <strong>of</strong> this name—East, West, and South Bountiful—West<br />

Bountiful being settled in 1848 by James Fackrell and his family,<br />

South Bountiful by George Meeyers and Edwin Page. All are now on<br />

the line <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Utah</strong> Central railroad. In January <strong>of</strong> this year Sessions also<br />

founded a settlement which bore his name, about 15 miles north <strong>of</strong> S. L. City.<br />

Harrison's Crit. Notes on <strong>Utah</strong>, MS., 45.<br />

3 The tract is described as commencing at the mouth <strong>of</strong> Weber Canon,<br />

following the base <strong>of</strong> the mountains north to the hot springs, thence westward<br />

to the Great Salt Lake, along the southern shore <strong>of</strong> the lake to a point opposite<br />

Weber Canon, and thence to the point <strong>of</strong> beginning. Stanford's Ogden City,<br />

MS., 1; Richards' Narr., MS., passim.<br />

i Some say for $1,950; others place the amount at $3,000. See Richards'<br />

Narr., MS.; Stanford's Ogden City, MS.<br />

'<strong>Utah</strong> Early Records, MS., 112. See also S. L. C. Contributor, li. 240;<br />

and Deseret News, Sept. 7, 1850. Stanford's Ogden City, MS., 1-2. The<br />

sibe was selected as early as Sept. 1849, on the south side <strong>of</strong> the Ogden River,<br />

at the point <strong>of</strong> bench-land between the forks <strong>of</strong> the Ogden and Weber rivers,<br />

so that water from both streams might be used for irrigation. <strong>Utah</strong> Early<br />

Records, MS., 94. North Ogden, formerly called Ogden Hole, once the resort<br />

<strong>of</strong> a noted desperado, was laid out in 1851. Amos Maycock, in <strong>Utah</strong> Sketches,<br />

MS., 114. 'Heber C. Kimball, Willard Richards, J. M. Grant, <strong>Brigham</strong><br />

<strong>Young</strong>, and several others ascended a sand hill, Sept. 3d, to discover the l-esfc<br />

location for a town, which we finally decided should be on the south sid. «f

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