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The Marriott-Slaterville City History Collection was created by the residents of the town to document their history. The collection includes Autobiographies, Oral Histories, History of Marriott, History of Slaterville, and the History of the Merging Townships to create Marriott-Slaterville City. This information has left behind rich histories, stories and important information regarding the history of the Marriott-Slaterville area. |
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Show March 1, 2001 Early settlers advised to 'fort up' Bingham log cabin, part of old Ogden fort, displayed at Lagoon's Pioneer Village By JACKIE WESTERGARD Editor's note: The following article is one of a series celebrating Ogden's sesquicentennial. Bingham's Fort was central in the lives of many Ogden community founders. It was the largest fort, both in area and population. Hundreds of settlers stopped over at this fort before moving into permanent homes. The first settlers of what would become Bingham's Fort came to the area in 1849. Settlers dotted the land with cabins, cultivated fields and devised irrigation systems. After an incident in 1850, in which Chief Terrikee and a settler were killed at Four Mile Creek in Harrisville, and because of Indian uprisings in Central Utah in 1853, Utah colonizer Brigham Young advised the settlers in Weber County to "fort up." The Chief Terrikee account is told in the book "Beneath Ben Lomond's Peak," by Milton R. Hunter. Bingham's Fort was located on both sides of what is now West 2nd Street and mainly west of Wall Avenue, which approximates the east wall of the fort. Second Street, west of Wall Avenue, was known as Bingham's Lane, a roadway that connected the east gate to the west gate of the fort. The west wall of the fort was located west of 301 W. 2nd St. The physical boundaries and dimensions of the fort are detailed in Gordon Q. Jones' book, "Pioneer Forts in Ogden, Utah." The fort measured on the west and east ends 60 rods or 990 feet wide, and on the north and south sides 120 rods or 1,980 feet long. Compared to Brown's Fort in Ogden, which was 57 feet by 66 feet, Bingham's Fort was quite large. Between 730 to 1,000 residents lived within Through Years Bingham's Fort. Only after Brigham Young came to the fort and told the families to move into Ogden did the other areas begin to grow. Isaac Newton Goodale laid out lots, and settlers moved their cabins using animal teams or took the cabins apart and resembled them inside the fort. Goodale was the son-in-law of the fort's namesake, Erastus Bingham. Goodale later built the first road from Ogden to Huntsville, what is now the Ogden Canyon road. He built the first irrigation system for Ogden - he laid out the irrigation system now known as the Lynne Ditch, which is still in use. The early settlement was fashioned under the organization of the Mormon coloniz- 109 |
