Other industries grew up: woolen mills, canneries, livestock yards, flour mills, breweries, iron works, banks, and hotels, and telephone, telegraph, and power companies.
And where beaver lived, trappers were sure to come.
Fortunately for Ogdenâs businesses, the city became the main junction for transferring railroad cars, passengers, and freight.
The people used every kind of animal for food and tools, including crickets, water fowl, fish, and bison. Etienne Provost and his party were heading down the Weber River. At the same time John Weber and his men were trapping near the present Ogden City.
On many days during the war, as many as 150 regular and special trains moved through Ogden's Union Station.Women canning tomatoes at a factory in Ogden during the Depression.
Within three years the community had 1,141 residents. 1. The many African Americans working for the railroad and living in Ogden made the city more multi-cultural than most of Utahâs cities.The Suzy-Q, a B-17 bomber at the Ogden Air Materiel Area in 1943. The history of Weber County goes as far back as 10,000 years. The Ogden and Weber rivers flow through the county.
The county was formed in 1850 and named after the Weber River, which in turn was named for John Henry Weber (1779–1859), a fur trapper and trader in the area in the mid-1820s.
Now the county has become involved in other, space-age kinds of transportation. The county is named for the Weber River.
Several aerospace industries have offices here.
The same water that provided so much food for people was also paradise for beaver.
The county extends from the Great Salt Lake in the West to the Wasatch Range in the East.
Weber County includes a wide swatch of land running from the Wasatch Mountains on the east to the Great Salt Lake on the west.
Ogden, who was working for a British company, lost several of his men and lots of money when they took their furs and started working for the Americans.The cabin Miles Goodyear built. Facts About Weber County, Utah. The combined river empties into the Great Salt Lake. DDO and Hill continue to provide many jobs for Weber residents. Growth in the county really took off after 1869, when the nation's first transcontinental railroad was finished on May 10 at Promontory Summit.
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Early people in this area had an advantage over people in drier places: they had access to plants and animals that flourished around marshlands, lakes, and rivers. Other manufacturing plants build Jetway loading bridges for airports worldwide. When people stopped riding railroads, Ogdenâs fortunes sank for a time. Weber State College, founded in Ogden in 1889, is now a university. When Lake Bonneville dried up, sediments were left in the soils that are perfect for farming. The mountains rise up to almost 10,000 feet. In 1843 horse trader/trapper Miles Goodyear built a fort and trading post on the banks of the Weber River, near where it meets the Ogden River. 1.
Peter Skene Ogdenâs party of 58 trappers, 30 women, and 35 children caught lots of beaver in Ogden Valley in 1825. Fremont Island, on the Great Salt Lake, is in Weber County.
Brigham Young later bought the fort from him.
This picture is probably from the 1890s or later.
Weber County is part of the Ogden-Clearfield, UT Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the Salt Lake City-Provo-Orem, UT Combined Statistical Area.
Late in 1847 he sold his land to James Brown, a veteran of the Mormon Battalion, for $1,950 in gold coins, and the property became Brown's Fort, also known as Brownsville. Locals are passionate about the area and welcoming to visitors who come to explore the colorful character of Ogden City through a wide range of historic attractions, sites and buildings that celebrate the legends of this once rugged and still vibrant Crossroads of the West.
There are no crowds, yet we’re teeming with boundless recreation, exciting attractions and fabulous events year round amid stunning natural beauty. The Ogden empties into the Weber River after flowing through Ogden Valley, cutting through Ogden Canyon, and passing through the city of Ogden. These groups had an angry confrontation about who had the right to be trapping here. Weber County is Utah's 4th most populous county. This article is part of a weekly series of stories highlighting interesting facts about cities in Utah County. Weber County was formed in 1850. The U.S. Forest Service regional headquarters, the IRS Service Center, and the McKay-Dee and St. Benedict's hospitals are among the county's major employers. They used roots and bulbs like sego lily and grass seeds. On the backside of the Wasatch lies the high Ogden Valley. Its county seat and largest city is Ogden, the home of Weber State University. Settlers and their cattle quickly took over the food resources that once fed the people. The war also placed increased demands on the transportation network. The county was named for the Weber River.
The bison disappeared.
Weber County's seat and largest city is Ogden; Ogden is home to Weber State University. As of the 2010 census, the population was 231,236, making it Utah's fourth-most populous county. The Union Station closed, but it was saved to become a museum center. Weber County is a county in the U.S. state of Utah. Sheep grazed there. Ogden became known as "Junction City." Marshes and shorelines along the lake attract birds.
Weber County's next big population explosion came just before and during World War II, when the military built the Defense Depot Ogden in northern Weber County and Hill Air Force Base and the Naval Supply Depot in nearby Davis County.
In 1846, Miles Goodyear, his wife and children, and friends built a trading post called Fort Buenaventura on the Weber River (near today’s Ogden).