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Val Verda Arch
Dedicated on July 23, 1983
In honor of all past, present and future residents of “Val Verda” (Spanish for Green Valley”)
Especially Mr. V.A. Bettilyon, who in 1917 saw beyond the June Grass and Oak Brush to envision green valleys and hills filled with the beautiful homes and gardens of today.
Original Arch: 1917 to 1959 – Second Arch: 1961 to 1977 – Present Restoration: July 1983 –
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Located in Bountiful is a private family museum for the Wood family. Â It’s a cool looking historic old building they built for that purpose.
The Bountiful Area Historic Site plaque says:
George C. Wood Home and Vineyard
George C. Wood built this original small rock house in 1879. With his wives Adelaide Ridges and Juliett Howard he reared a large family and the house grew with them. His large vineyard included 55 acres of 38 varieties of grapes. He also planted nut trees and melons of different varieties. He raised the first turkey red wheat in the county and also sugar cane from which be made molasses and sorghum. Son Wilford Wood established a fur business on the premises. He also expanded the structure for his private historical collection. On May 22, 1961 the home was honored by President David O. McKay dedicating it as “Mother’s Home of Learning.”
Historic marker donated by Wilford Wood Melchizedek Priesthood Foundation
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Located at 3603 South 550 West in Bountiful, Utah
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An Obelisk about 16 feet high on the corner of Center and Main in downtown Bountiful, Utah tells the following:
Bountiful City, incorporated December 14, 1892.
Perrigrine Sessions drove his wagon north to this area in September of 1847. Â Here Sessions Settlement had its beginning. Â The second settlement in the Territory of Utah. In 1855, thirty-seven years prior to incorporation as a city. Â The name was changed to Bountiful.
Education in this community was always important. Â As early as 1848 local pioneer children were taught by Hannah Holbrook in her Wickiup School.
Bountiful Harvests – Orchards and gardens were planted in abundance, supplying produce to local pioneer families. Â Bountiful harvests brought the development of the growers market, allowing widespread distribution of produce.
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Syracuse was incorporated on September 3, 1935.
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South Weber was home to the Morrisite War. On June 13, 1862, an estimated five hundred man army perched cannons atop the bluffs on the south side of the city, aimed at Joseph Morris. The war lasted three days, and ultimately resulted in the death of Joseph Morris, John Banks, and a few others. Upon seeing their leaders dead, the remainder of the Morrisites surrendered.
South Weber is also known for a week of Bigfoot sightings in February 1980. For one week, residents reported signs of the legendary Sasquatch. At the time, multiple residents saw the creature while feeding horses, smelled foul “bigfoot” odors, and found large patches of strange fur throughout the small community. Although no animal was ever found, the legend lives on.
Business Week Magazine named South Weber, UT the 6th best suburb in the country in 2009.
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Originally known as North Cottonwood, Farmington was permanently settled by Mormon pioneers in 1847. The Children’s Primary Association of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized here on 11 August 1878. It was the birthplace of one of the longest lived Latter-day Saint apostles, LeGrand Richards. His maternal great-grandfather, Joseph Lee Robinson, was the first bishop of what was then the North Cottonwood Ward. Lagoon Amusement Park was founded here in 1886 and occupies 100 acres of the city. Ezra T. Clark was an early settler of Farmington who later founded the Davis County Bank and built several houses in the area, some of which are located in the Clark Lane Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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This is the site of the North Farmington School built in 1860. Ut was a two-story, red brick building and the first public building in North Farmington. The “little res school house,” as it was called, was used for school, church, and social functions. When the North Farmington Ward was organized on March 11, 1917, meetings were held in this school until the L.D.S. chapel across the street was built in 1919.
This marker was placed in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the North Farmington Ward by the young men and young women of the Farmington Utah North Stake in 1992.
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Clinton is a city in Davis County. It is part of the Ogden–Clearfield, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 12,585 at the 2000 census, while the 2008 estimates placed it at 19,855. Clinton grew rapidly during the 1990s and continues to see rapid growth.
Dry farming began in the area of Clinton in 1879. By 1881 there was a railroad station. In 1884 a branch of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized in Clinton named the Summit Basin Branch.
A ward was organized in Clinton in May 1897, which was named Clinton.
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