It Pays to Live in Ogden - a photo on Flickriver

            Today is Pioneer Day in Ogden and the rest of Utah.  Pioneer Day is a state holiday celebrating the arrival of Mormon Pioneers (invaders depending on your point of view) in the valley of the Great Salt Lake."   Happy Pioneer Day Utah

Ogden is a city that is somewhat different than other towns in Utah. Mormon pioneers originally settled most Utah communities. Ogden, however, has a distinct origin. It began as Fort Buenaventura. In 1844, a fur trapper named Miles Goodyear established Fort Buenaventura along the banks of the Weber River.  It became an important railroad town with the completion of the Transcontinental and the building of the Union Station.  Four cities Corinne, Promontory, Uintah, and Ogden competed with each other for the opportunity to house the train station that would be the junction for railroad travel in the Intermountain West. Because Ogden was a well-established center of businesses it was adopted as the official station of the transcontinental railway.
Ogden grew and became quite a rough city. Crime boss Al Capone commented in the 1920s that Ogden was too wild a town for him.    In 1954, the city effected a clean up of  the area around the train station as well as the rampant corruption in the local government.  Today Ogden is cool town and a great location for tourists of Utah to visit, though it still has something of a non Mormon reputation and feel.
  -- Courtesy Utah.Com.
   

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