Miles Goodyear Cabin

Miles Morris Goodyear built this cabin on the lower Weber River as a way station and trading post. The cabin, along with other buildings became Fort Buenaventura meaning good venture. It was the first permanent settlement in the Utah Territory. Miles Goodyear (1817-1849) had traveled as far as Fort Hall in 1836 with Dr. Marcus Whitman’s party of Methodist Missionaries. Goodyear was a trapper, prospector and trader. His Indian wife Pomona was the daughter of Ute chief Peet-teet-neet. The couple had two children, William Miles and Mary Eliza.

Mormon Battalion Captain James Brown and Mary Black Brown bought Fort Buenaventura and all of Weber County for $1,950 in gold. Mary Brown made the cabin home for her family and made 1,000 pounds of cheese during the first year.

The Browns sold the cabin to Amos P. and Minerva Leontine Jones Stone. The Stone family lived in the cabin for a time, eventually using it as a blacksmith shop. A daughter, Minerva Pease Stone Shaw, in 1926 presented the cabin to Weber County Daughters of Utah Pioneers for preservation. It has been moved seven times, ultimately being placed at this site. In 1994 it was disassembled for preservation of the logs and reassembled in 1995 at this location to benefit posterity.

The photos above were taken when the historic marker was located near the Ogden Temple, at N 41.22785 W 111.97261.

It was since moved to the new location of the D.U.P. Museum at 2148 Grant Avenue in Ogden, Utah.

The cabin and museum were later moved to 2104 Lincoln Avenue in Ogden, Utah

In 1860’s “Tim” B. Malan found a mountain basin containing a spring and timber. By 1868, he was selling logs, using his roller invention to get them safely down the cliff. July 1892, Tim and sons finished making a road with pick and shovel; later hewed a switch-back road, built a home and hotel. Guests came in spring wagons to enjoy Aunt Loui’s cooking, play various games or watch activities in town through a powerful telescope. Malan Heights is seen southeast of this marker.

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In 1854 Ogden pioneers built a rock and mud wall a mile square along 28th Street, Wall Avenue and 21st Street. Madison Avenue was not completed because the Indians became peaceful. The eight-foot wall had a six-foot base, a 31 inch top and four gates. The cost of $40,000 was raised by $40.00 tax on each city lot, also a $10.00 tax on every able-bodied man over 18 years. The project was erected by 500 working men. Wall Avenue was named after this wall.

This is Daughters of Utah Pioneers historic marker #416 located at Union Station at 2501 Wall Avenue in Ogden, Utah on a monument with U.P.T.L.A. historic marker #120.

Mound Fort as a settlement began in 1848 when the first pioneers arrived in this locality. Others followed and erected a fort on an Indian burial mound. Its steep west slope, cut to a perpendicular face 10 feet high topped with a 3-foot breastwork, served as a lookout. Mud walls were begun on the other side. Cabins were built. A spring furnished water. Meetings and school were held in private homes. As more settlers came, Indian threats subsided and the fort fell into disuse.

This historic marker is located at the Mound Fort Ward Chapel in Ogden, Utah.

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