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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 Deseret News, March 16, 1999 'Open space city' formed in Weber Pilot program aims to control area's growth By Lucinda Dillon Deseret News staff writer MARRIOTT-SLATERVILLE Keith Butler says he built his house at an angle on purpose. He was after the view: magnificent Ben Lomond peak, the "Mountain of Dreams" that may have inspired the Paramount Pictures movie company logo. He can see it perfectly out his front room window from where his tilted home now sits. Snowy Lewis Peak is a little to the right, then Mount Ogden. Butler, the mayor of Utah's newest city, is a small-town guy who is using every bit of big-city technique and might to preserve this northern Utah area where he was born. For one thing, he doesn't want this spectacular mountain view to disappear behind concrete, billboards and other boastful signs of growth and development, which is why he encouraged the Utah State Legislature to designate Marriott-Slaterville as Utah's first open space pilot city. "We want to be a model city for open space," Butler said. Lawmakers granted his wish. Now the city may have its work cut out. Marriott-Slaterville is a 7.3 square-mile slice of heaven west of the freeway, "smushed in" between Ogden to the East, Farr West to the North, Plain Marriott-Slaterville's new mayor, Keith Butler, along with others, fought for incorporation to preserve heritage of the area. 216 |