The first settlement of Ogden occurred in 1846 by trapper Miles Goodyear as a trading post named "Fort Buenaventura". Purchased a year later by Mormon settlers and renamed "Brownsville", the City was later named a third and final time, this time after Peter Skene Ogden, a brigade leader of the Hudson Bay Company who had trapped in the Weber Valley a generation earlier.
Ogden has its roots in the railroad industry as the Junction City of the Transcontinental Railroad, which was completed at the historic Golden Spike location at Promontory Summit in 1869. For several decades Ogden was touted as the major passenger railroad junction of the West, owing to its central location for both major east-west and north-south rail routes. This led to the business community developing the catch phrase, "you can't go anywhere without coming to Ogden."
www.ogdencity.com Coincidentally, Lois' sister, Vivian, married into the
Bamberger family who constructed one of the original railroads.
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| Amalagated Sugar Co., Ogden, UT |
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| Bamberger Railroad, 1947 |
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| Broom Hotel, 1912 |
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| Browning Automobile and Supply |
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| David O. McKay Home, c. 1930's |
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| Egyptian Theater, 1925 |
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| Grant School, Ogden, UT |
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| Ogden High School |
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| Ogden Music Co. 1910 |
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| Ogden Stockyards |
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| Old Ogden, Bamberger Terminal |
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| Ogden, Utah |
I'd like to know where you got the picture of the David O. McKay home and if you have specific information about when it was taken. My family has lived there for twenty years, and we love to learn it's history.
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