NORTH OGDEN HISTORICAL MUSEUM
FOUNDING OF NORTH OGDEN
North Ogden is a city in Weber County, Utah, United States. The population was 15,026 at the 2000 census; by July 2006, the population was estimated at 16,798. North Ogden is on U-235, three miles north of Ogden, and is a suburb of that city.
ETIENNE PROVOT 1780-1850 an explorer, trapper, trader, adventurer, wintered at present North Ogden, Utah, in 1824-25. He was the first white man to explore the valley in the vicinity surrounding the present Salt Lake City, 1825.
North Ogden was originally settled during the winter of 1850 by two sets of cattle ranchers from Ogden. The Campbells and the Riddles had been warned by Brigham Young not to venture from the fort in Ogden due to the troubles with the local Shoshone. After a few months wintering their cattle, they were forced to return to Ogden in fear of Shoshone reprisals. The following year, after the trouble with the Shoshone had been partially settled, Jonathan Campbell returned with a number of other families to permanently settle the area.
In NORTH OGDEN
During the Indian uprisings in 1853, Brigham Young instructed the settlers to build a fort wall around ten blocks including the block upon which Thomas Dunn, the first Presiding Elder, had erected a six room adobe home in 1851. In 1854 a band of Indians staged a war dance around the house. They were finally pacified and peace restored. The fort wall was never completed as work was abandoned when Indian trouble subsided. After 1952 the city used the home for offices and council meetings.