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< Back 189 West 2nd Street Return to Homes Civil War Vet House, built c. 1905 by Kate and William Smethers; photo c. 1921. Civil War Vet House, 189 W 2nd St, is part of the Oldest Neighborhood in Ogden; photo 2021. Perhaps the original house looked like the sketch on the right, and the porch was added later. Kate Barritt (1851-1935) and William (1845-1936) Smethers The house at 189 W 2nd Street is nick-named “The Civil War Vet House” as both original owners were members of Weber’s Grand Army of the Republic. William was a Civil War veteran who fought with General Sherman in decisive battles on his march to the sea, and Kate’s father was an army surgeon in the Civil War. Both Kate and William came from Indiana and were school teachers. They moved to Ogden later in their lives and built this house in about 1905 with a field stone foundation and relieving arched window heads of the Victorian Eclectic style on five acres of land. William served as principal one year at the Five Points School and one year at the Pingree School. Kate specialized in kindergarten work and wrote papers concerning this subject. Kate was proud to be the niece to Sarah T. Bolton, poet-laureate of Indiana, who wrote “Paddle Your Own Canoe”, and many other popular poems of that day. William also served as commander of the Utah department of the Grand Army of the Republic and commander of Dix Logan post No. 2, Ogden. He was made a master Mason nearly 50 years ago and held membership in George Washington lodge No. 24 F. & A. M. Kate was a member and matron of Queen Esther chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, and a past president of Dix-Logan post, auxiliary to the G. A. R. The Grand Army of the Republic was a fraternal organization composed of veterans of the Union Army who served in the American Civil War. Until their deaths Mr. and Mrs. Smethers were the last living G. A. R. couple in Weber County. They lived at 189 West 2nd Street for 30 years. Kate died in December 1935 and William died April 1936 at the United States Veterans Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah. They had one daughter, Gertrude Mae Smethers Hutton, who continued living in the house at 189 W 2nd Street and passed it on in 1957 to her son, Harold Hutton. [1] The Smethers’ great granddaughter, Lorraine Mae Hutton (rear), in front of house at 189 W 2nd St. in 1942. [1] - Standard Examiner obituary Dec. 1935; Standard Examiner obituary April 1936; Abstract of Title 4014. Return to Homes Previous Next

< Back 159 West 2nd Street Return to Homes Quaint rubble-rock house was built in Bingham Fort in c.1863 by Art Stone; photo 2014. Rubble-rock portion with new authentic limestone wash by Rick Creeger in 2018. Brick front portion of house was attached to rock house in c. 1911 by Manley/Hearn family. Arthur Stone (1841-1876) In the 1850s and 1860s it was not uncommon for the Native Americans to come to the settlers’ houses to visit or to ask for things they needed. But it was not considered safe for the settlers to go casually into the Native camps. The white children were cautioned to always stay on the roads, be respectful to the Natives and never go into the Native American camps. Of course, there are always exceptions, and the exception to this protocol was Arthur Stone from England who developed a more personal friendship with some of the young Native bucks. “Art” was sixteen years old when his parents settled in Bingham’s Fort in 1857. From 2ndStreet he could look into the Native American camps and see young men practicing to be warriors. They would paint their face with different colors of clay, ride bareback and practice horse maneuvers and target shooting, and yell war cries. There were numerous tribes of Indians encamped in the meadows simultaneously and the wicki-ups of the chiefs were decorated with rows and rows of scalps. Art was fascinated. Art married Sarah Yeman in 1862; photo c. 1868. By the mid-1860s Art was a great favorite with the Indians. They would come to his house on Sunday, when there was never any work in the fields, and Art would be surrounded by a group of Indian bucks; he participated in their games of all kinds. Sometimes it was riding horses, and Art had a wonderful riding horse; the saddle and bridle trappings were ornamented or embroidered beautifully with Indian handwork. He had a wonderful suit of buckskin with leggings, moccasins, etc. to match. Everything he had seemed to be as nice as the greatest chiefs’ sons. The Indians seemed to admire him greatly. His face was painted like the Indian’s faces as he joined them in their games. Art was a fiddler for dances, and it was not unusual for Native bucks to come to the white community dances. However, the bucks never danced with white girls, just with each other or a white boy; there were always more boys than girls at the dances. But Art took a Native with him to the dances who was handsomely dressed in white doe-skin, heavily embroidered and fringed. He was a beautiful dancer, and he danced with white girls. The girls liked to dance with that Native boy as he could dance as many fancy steps as any of the white boys. [1] Art Stone built this rock house at 159 West 2nd Street in about 1863. Art’s father, William Stone, was the architect, and they built this sturdy rubble-rock house in a familiar English style with a cellar and an upper half story. At this time all other houses on 2nd Street were log or a few were adobe. Art’s rock house was meant to be a very permanent, long-lasting structure. Arthur Stone’s niece, Mary Hutchens, recorded that her Uncle Art toured her through his house in about 1869; she said that it was the first house in that part of the county with a cellar underneath. She recalled that she “didn’t like the idea of a cellar under the house and she said, “I don’t like this. Aren’t you afraid it will cave in with all those rocks over us? I wouldn’t like to come down here very often.” Her Uncle Art laughed and said that it couldn’t cave in, as the foundation of the house was also the sides of the cellar.” [2] His house was more than substantial, but his marriage did not endure. Sarah didn’t like Art playing the violin till late on Saturday nights and then failing to attend church the next day. She desired a more religious husband, and in 1871 she abandoned the children and Art when their third child was less than a year old. It brings to mind the possibility of postpartum depression. The next year she entered a polygamous marriage as the third wife of neighbor Daniel Francis Thomas. With the help of his mother and siblings, Art raised his children until 1876 when he was killed in a buggy racing accident at the mouth of Weber Canyon. At that time Art's siblings took his orphaned children into their homes. Alexander Brown Alexander Brown (1826-1910), Amanda McMurty (1834-1918) Alex and his brother Jesse Brown were the first Mormon settlers to Weber County, sent by their father in 1848 to take possession of the property purchased from Miles Goodyear. Two years before Art Stone’s death, in 1874, Art Stone sold the rubble rock house and 37-acre farm to Alex Brown. Alex and Amanda lived in the little rock house without electricity or plumbing until about 1890 when they moved to a modern house at 306 2nd Street, very close to Five Points. Jesse Brown lived on the farm west of Alex which is today’s Down's Drive subdivision In their day Alex and Jesse entertained the boys of the 2nd Street neighborhood with adventure tales of the Mormon battalion along the old Santa Fe Trail to New Mexico. Together Alex and Jesse were honored to lead the Lynne pioneer parade on the 24th of July, and they also gave talks around Ogden communities on the early settlement of Weber County. Thomas Manley (1835-c. 1905) & Margaret Sheridan (1833-1913) In about 1892 Thomas Manley, age 57, and his wife, Margaret Sheridan Hearn, purchased the little rock house and farmed here for about ten years. [3] They were both born in Ireland; Thomas may have retired from the railroad. The house did not have plumbing, and they used a well in the back yard. After the death of her husband, Margaret lived with her son, James Dennis Hearn, who served as an Ogden policeman for twenty-six years. Margaret gave her property to her son, and perhaps it was James Hearn who updated the 50-year-old rock house by attaching a brick bungalow to the east side of it in about 1911. At this time the upper half story of the rock house was removed, and one roof covered both sections of the house. Brick bungalow attached to rock house in about 1911. James Family Farm In about 1915 Henry and Genevieve Kelly James purchased the new brick house attached to the old rock house and the 37-acre farm, and in time, they passed the property on to their son Brendan James and his wife Marjorie. The farm remained in the James family for about 80 years. In 2008 Ogden City’s Heritage School was built on five-acres of the historic Art Stone farm. Rick & Tammy Creeger Rick and Tammy Creeger purchased the farmhouse in 1995 and put the two-part house on the Ogden City Register of Historic Places in 2020. Standard Examiner Jan. 23, 2020. WCHF Historic plaque for 159 W 2nd St., installed by MarketStar Aug. 2021. Garden for the community at 159 W 2nd Street [1] - Editor Milton R.Hunter, Beneath Ben Lomond’s Peak, Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1944, p. 139; Autobiography of Mary Elizabeth Hutchens, transcribed by Dorothy A. Hutchens, assisted by Laura Hutchens Welker, manuscript, 1933, p. 2, 88, 89 [2] - Ibid, p. 38. [3] - Ogden City Directory, Thomas Manley, farmer, 1892. Return to Homes Previous Next

< Back Forked Stick and Riddles Return to Native Americans Shoshone Indian Village Mary said that none of the pioneers locked their doors. To keep the doors so they wouldn’t come open there was a wooden latch on the inside and a string was fastened to it and put through a hole to the outside so that anyone who wanted to get in had to pull this latch string and raise the latch inside the door. One could press a knee against the door and break the wooden latch easily. At night when one retired, one pulled in the string to the inside of the door. In the early 1860s, when Mary and her family were leaving the house for a while, she noticed her father pick up a stick and set it on and against the door. She said, “Why do you do that father?” And he replied, “That is to let the settlers and the Indians know that I have gone away.” When an Indian leaves his tepee, he puts a forked stick against the flap or opening of his tent. Then other Indians will not go in because they know no one is there. Mary’s father adopted the custom from the Indians and did likewise. Once the school teacher took a basket of food to the sick Indian women during the noon hour and allowed some of the little girls to go with her. Mary noticed that a number of tepees that they passed had sticks crossed against the flaps or openings, and the teachers told them that the Indians who occupied those tepees weren’t at home and for them not to go near. [1] An Indian Riddle ​ When the little Indian girls came over to play, Mary and her sister used to tell riddles and the Indian girls tried to guess them. Little Rose Leaf one day said, “Guess this riddle: There is something that has two legs and a body but no head that guards the door.” Of course, they couldn’t guess, and Rose Leaf was delighted. Finally, they asked her what it was, and she said, “It is the crooked stick we put outside to hold the flap of the wickiup together and to let everyone know we are not at home, and then no one comes in.” [2] [1] - Autobiography of Mary Elizabeth Hutchens Sherner, Mary Elizabeth – Her Stories, dictated to her daughter Dorothy A. Sherner, manuscript, 1933, p. 87. [2] - Ibid, p. 78. Return to Native Americans Previous [object Object] Next

< Back Courting, Marriage, and Clothing Return to Native Americans Grouse Creek Jack’s leather gloves, 1880s. Mary Hutchens can remember young Jack Indian courting a young Indian woman. It was really a beautiful sight to see them as they were both dressed in wonderfully beaded suits of white doeskin. [1] At this time, Shoshone marriages were arranged for nearly all. If a man wanted to marry a certain girl, he would send a gift to the girl’s parents of a horse or several horses, or skins of all kinds, or deer meat or other food supplies showing him to be a good provider. If the parents agreed, the marriage was arranged. This arrangement was not considered a purchase but rather was considered compensation for the loss of service to her parents. [2] Arrangements for the marriage of a chief probably had other significant procedures. A Shoshone marriage ceremony was conducted by the spiritual leader. He always gave the couple rules to live by, among which would be the injunction to be true to their mate at all times. There were counseled to be chaste in thought and to always remember their wedding vows. Sometimes the spiritual leader would pull hair from the bride and groom and tie it together. The tied hair was then taken by a relative to a hiding place known only the relative – if later the couple wanted to divorce, they would first have to find the hair and untie it. [3] A spiritual leader or the medicine man would pray and dedicate a new dwelling. He would normally pray and do a smudging ceremony before the poles were covered. Smudging consists of burning sage, sweetgrass or tobacco to cleanse and purify the surroundings. He would pray that the occupants would have a happy life together in the dwelling. He would pray that no evil would enter through the door opening, that the dwelling would always be open to the hungry, fatherless, and aged. [4] As time went by Jack Indian had five or six wives and quite a lot of sons and daughters who were very regal looking; all dressed in beaded and fringed skin clothing. [5] Shoshone clothing was made primarily from tanned animal skins. Sagebrush and juniper bark were also used. As many as seven hides from an antelope, three or four hides from a deer, and two large elk hides were required to make one dress. Dresses and suits were decorated with shells, claws, and teeth from various animals. Bones and porcupine quills were also used as decoration. Sinew from animals was used for thread. Sagebrush and juniper bark was used to make capes, blouses, and leg coverings. [6] Jack Indian’s tribe was spotlessly clean. Many of them wore heavily embroidered leather suits with fringe. Mary has seen the Indian women rub the leather suits all over with a pumice stone until they were white and soft and clear again, as of course they couldn’t be cleaned in water. [7] 1850s Shoshone leather dress ornamented with sea shells from Lake Bonneville. [1] - Autobiography of Mary Elizabeth Hutchens Sherner, Mary Elizabeth – Her Stories, dictated to her daughter Dorothy A. Sherner, manuscript, 1933 p. 84. [2] - Darren Parry, The Bear River Massacre, Common Consent Press, 2019p.20, 21. [3] - Ibid, p. 21. [4] - Ibid p. 15,16. [5] - Sherner, Mary Elizabeth- Her Stories, p. 83. [6] - Parry, The Bear River Massacre, p. 19. [7] - Sherner, Mary Elizabeth- Her Stories, p. 86. A pumice stone is formed when lava and water mix together. Return to Native Americans Previous [object Object] Next

< Back Return to Roads Indian Camp Road Indian Camp Road is named in remembrance of the Indian camps that existed here in the 1800s. 1968 view of Indian Tree; the Indians once hung their meat in the tree to dry; photo Dave Montgomery. 2005 view of Indian Tree before it was cut down. Located at 145 Century Dr. 1983 view of Indian Tree from 2nd St.; the tree became a symbol of the Indian camps that use to fill the surrounding meadows; the tree died in about 1997; it was cut down in 2005. 2011 view of the same site pictured above. The Indian Tree was a landmark on 2nd Street for 100 years, symbolizing the former surrounding Indian camps; the tree was located at today’s address of 145 Century Drive. Indians camped here and hung their meat to dry in this tree and others. A large spring was located near the tree and a pond 3 blocks to the north. The tree and surrounding Indian camps were described by four writers over the years. Sarah Stone Crowther (1872- 1963) grew up on today’s Fort Bingham subdivision. She wrote in the 1920s: A very large tree stands on the place and it has been there for fifty years. It is a monstrous tree today measuring around the trunk, and its outspreading branches are a sight to behold, and I am told it is the largest tree in Weber County. Many times my brothers have wanted to cut it down but I have always put up such a fight for it that I have won out and the tree still stands. There used to be another tree like this one in a field below us and many more smaller ones. When I was a little girl about eight years old (1880) great companies of Indians used to come to this spot and camp for weeks at a time. This use to please me. I have always liked the Indians and then they were so peculiar in their mode of living. I have seen five and six wicki-ups planted in between the trees and they always had lots of horses with them. There were always papooses and I was crazy to see them. They use to hang their meat in the trees to dry. They would beg for everything they saw, and sometimes old bucks would get drunk on whiskey and then we were afraid of them for they would quarrel and shoot at each other and someone would have to get an officer of the law to quiet them. They would stay for a few weeks and then they would all go again. One cold autumn day they drove away and left an old Indian woman. She was very old and they left the poor old thing to die. She came up to our house ( 386 West 2nd Street ) and begged for clothes. She was freezing, and she could not see but very little. We asked her why she did not go with the others. She said she was too old and that she must die. They would not have her any more. I do not know what became of her after she left our place. [1] Gwendolyn Shaw wrote in 1928: On West 2nd Street, Ogden, Utah stands an old cottonwood tree which is the largest specimen of its kind that I have ever seen. It towers above and spreads its protecting branches over a tiny log house which was built within the confines of Bingham’s Fort. It has stood unmoved through the changes of time, indifferent to the change of flag and government, the passing of the Indian, the coming of the fur traders and trappers and finally the coming of the Mormon settlers. [2] Mary Elizabeth Hutchens Sherner recalled: There was a huge cottonwood tree in Mr. Gates’ meadow (in the 1860s), not very far from the schoolhouse. The children played under this big tree. It had such huge, outspreading branches that four large swings were hung in it… She also noted that there were Indian encampments on both sides of 2nd Street from Slaterville all the way to the fort. Once during seasonal migrating the road was so crowded with Indians that it was difficult for her parents to drive their wagon on the road ( 2nd St.). [3] In an interview published in the Standard Examiner in 1934 Fred Pierce remembered the Indian camps during the 1880s: “the Indians made their camp in Bingham Fort meadows during the eighties. The Indians were friendly and not quarrelsome. They would come and beg once in a while, but that is all they would bother us. I remember that as a boy I gave one of them a big piece of cake, and he always remembered it and was good to me as long as he lived there. The Indians lived by hunting ducks and geese and fishing and didn’t do much else. I’ve seen them catch carp weighing as much as twenty-five pounds (from Stone’s Pond ).” Respect for Indians Taught in School c. 1865 The teacher, Mrs. Bingham, instructed the children to respect the Indians and “explained that Brigham Young had made a treaty with the Indians (so) that the white people would live at peace with them. That the children must learn to respect the rights of the Indians as the country really belonged to them first, and that the white people were the interlopers and should always treat the Indians with respect, as there were just a handful of white people and many thousands of Indians in the valley. Mary told her father what the teacher had said and he agreed with Mrs. Bingham in everything. He warned the children again not to go into the Indian camps but to keep to the roadways when they left home and to be courteous to the Indians always.” [4] Relics from the Past Ancient Indian arrowheads were plentiful on the Bingham/Stone farm. From 1910 to the 1960s the Stone family filled a shoe box full with arrowheads over the years of plowing the fields. It was easy to see them when plowing with a horse, but a sharp eye could also spot them from the high tractor seat. Sample of arrowheads found in the fields of the Bingham/Sone Farm. [1] - Autobiography of Sarah Stone Crowther, manuscript, typed 1959 by Macel Stone Montgomery, p.1. [2] - Gwendolyn W. Shaw, History of Bingham’s Fort, Weber College, Ogden Utah, manuscript, 1928, p.1 [3] - Editors Dorthy Amelda Sherner and Laura Sherner Welker, Mary Elizabeth-Her Stories, manuscript, 1933, p. 20, 85, 88; Dorthy Amelda Sherner and Laura Sherner Welker, Mary Remembers, p. 101. [4] - Ibid, p.85. Previous Return to Roads Next

< Back 115 West 2nd Street Return to Homes YESTERDAY, 115 W. 2nd STREET. TODAY, 115 W 2nd STREET. In England Walter Crane apprenticed to a miller and joined the Mormon Church at age 14. After a four-year apprenticeship, he immigrated with his parents to America in 1866. In Wyoming Territory Walter beheld his first glimpse of a Native American with great interest. He and his parents arrived in Salt Lake City in September 1866. Walter moved on to Farmington to work at the flour mill of Mr. Clark. Most of the employees were converts and emigrants, experiencing their first jobs in the new country. Walter, however, was an experienced miller and became a valued worker. [1] Mary Ann Rackham arrived in America from England in 1868. What she remembered about her journey across America was how large the country seemed and like a wilderness compared to England. The Civil War was just two years over, so she saw firsthand the scars of internal war on the first part of the journey. On the second part of the journey the railroad construction followed the wagon train trail part of the time, and her brothers were allowed to leave the wagon train and work for the railroad to earn much needed money. In Salt Lake City Mary Ann lived with her aunt who prepared Mary Ann for the job of housework, teaching her the difference between service in England and that in Utah. With this preparation Mary Ann went to work for a family by the name of Clark in Farmington. She was the maid of all work, watching the children, and cooking and serving the men who worked for Mr. Clark in his flour mill. [2] Mary Ann Rackham (1850-1930) Walter Crane (1848-1932) Walter was 21 and Mary Ann 19 when they were married in the old Endowment House in Salt Lake City in 1869. Their employer, Mr. Clark, opened another mill in Morgan and put Walter in charge of it. During the following 10 years Walter worked as a miller in Morgan and then in Tooele. Walter took two plural wives, but they did not move with him in 1879 when he moved to Ogden with his wife, Mary Ann, and daughter Annie. They bought a small farm in what was then called Bingham Fort at Lynne (Ogden), Utah; Walter was now working for the Utah Central Railroad Co. as a brakeman and check master. [3] Walter and Mary Ann first lived in a two-room log cabin already on the property left by the David Crowther family. They were delighted with the orchard, currant bushes and a small pond fed by a natural spring. Irrigation water was supplied by the Bingham Fort ditch, now called the Lower Lynne ditch. They planted more trees, bushes and flowers and planned to build a brick house and spend the rest of their lives here. By 1883 Walter had again changed vocations and was listed in the Ogden City Directory as “a contractor and builder”. He started building the brick house at 115 W 2nd Street in the 1880s, but it was not completed until about 1895. His life became complicated by taking a fourth wife in 1889, appearing in court twice for unlawful cohabitation, and serving a mission to England. Upon his return from England, the house was finally completed. He served as secretary of Lynne Irrigation Co. and a counselor in the Lynne Ward. In addition to their daughter Annie, the Cranes adopted another child, Zina, and raised Mary Ann’s nephew. Mary Ann died in 1930 and Walter in 1932. [4] Walter and Mary Ann’s daughter Annie and her husband, Anders Bolander, built the house at 133 W 2nd St. in about 1908, pictured on the right in the photo below. This house has been in possession of Annie Crane Bolander family for more than 100 years. Annie’s daughter Mary married Clarence Stromberg, and they created the house at 125 W 2nd St in 1930, pictured in the center in the photo below. The house at 125 W started as a one-room house that had belonged to the Clapier family and was moved to this site from Old Pioneer Road. In time an addition was made on the rear. [5] Three Crane family houses in a row; 115 W 2, 125 W 2, and 133 W 2nd Street. Old fashioned methods of flood irrigation from the Lower Lynne Ditch are still in use on 2nd Street. [1] - Mary Bolander Strombery, Biography of William Walter Stannard Crane, manuscript, p. 1-3. [2] - Alice Bolander Davison, Mary Ann Rackham Crane, manuscript, p .4, 5. [3] - Stromberg, Biography of William Walter Stannard Crane, p. 3; Family Search, pedigree resource file. [4] - Alice Bolander Davison, Mary Ann Rackham Crane , manuscript, p. 7; Stromberg, Biography of William Walter Stannard Crane, p.3; Andrew Jensen, History of the Lynne Ward , manuscript, 1893, p. 11, 12. [5] - Letter of Evelyn Stromberg Kerr, Tooele, Utah, 23 Sept.1998; Mary Edith Bolander Stromberg, manuscript. Return to Homes Previous Next

< Back 218 2nd Street Return to Homes Lawrence Sherner was born in Lynne, Ogden City, Weber County, Utah, in 1873 to Peter and Mary Elizabeth Huchens Sherner who lived at 122 2nd Street. He attended school at the Lynne Schoolhouse and spent his childhood days in the company of his pioneer relatives. [1] He epitomized the transitional generation that was raised on a farm by pioneer parents and grandparents and then led the way into the first half of the twentieth century. By the time Lawrence was 21 years old, Five Points had three stores selling merchandise, one of these was the Shaw Mercantile Store. There was also one drug store, two shoe stores, two tailoring establishments, three blacksmith shops, one butcher shop, one skating rink, several or three saloons, and a number of offices for real estate, doctors, and lawyers. Electric streetcars passed each way through Five Points every few minutes giving the community an air of importance. [2] Rozina Shaw was born in 1882; her grandfather and great-grandfather helped take the first water ditches out of Ogden River for agriculture irrigation in 1849. In the 1890s her father helped begin the mercantile store on the SW corner of 2nd Street and Washington Blvd. Later her father became the sole owner of the store and his family lived first above the store and later in a house built next to the store on 2nd Street, just three blocks away from the childhood home of Lawrence. [3] Rozina’s father owned W.D. Shaw Mercantile on the SW corner of Washington and 2nd Street; location of Pizza Hut in 2021. Lawrence completed this red brick house prior to his marriage to Rozina Shaw in June 1901. It was located on family acreage next to the north branch of the Lower Lynne Ditch and a block-and-a-half -west of the junction at Five Points. The ditch was a great advantage for irrigation and proximity to “The Points” meant walking distance for shopping and business. Lawrence’s neighbor, Moroni Stone, was his great uncle. In 1916 Lawrence Sherner was called to be bishop of the Lynne Ward and served from 1916 to 1926. A new church meetinghouse was dedicated in 1915 to the triangle at Five Points. [4] During Bishop Sherner’s first years his ward members were coping with the sorrows of death and deformity from World War l. Those who returned after the armistice in 1918 faced a lack of work – Utah’s agrarian economy did not support many jobs- and broken spirits. About this time the influenza epidemic enveloped the world, and Ogden did not escape either. Nearly every family lost a family member to its scourge; penicillin had not yet been discovered. Then in the waning days of World War l, prohibition was a political issue and there was a growing awareness of the erratic stock market. [5] The men in the bishopric were devoted servants to the community during these difficult times, and the new meetinghouse at Five Points was a bright spot for the community. This was where ward meetings were held and social events for the entire community. Everyone was proud of the chapel. [6] On December 16, 1923, by popular vote, the name of the Lynne Ward was changed to the Ogden15th Ward. [7] Lawrence was a farmer and manager of the Scoville Paper Company (later called the Ogden Paper Company). He preferred to think of himself as a farmer. In 1896 he planted 35,000 strawberry plants by hand on the Sherner Farm. [8] In 2021 the Lawrence Sherner house on 2nd Street retains 2 acres of the farm and is still owned by the Sherner family. Lawrence & Rozina Shaw Sherner, c. 1901 [1] - Colleen Blankenship, Lawrence William Sherner, manuscript, 2004, p.1 . [2] - Andrew Jensen, History of the Lynne Ward, Microfilm LR#6405 2, p. 1, 12. [3] - Pioneer personal history of Myrtillo Shaw Jr, 1937, Federal Writers Project . [4] - Colleen Blankenship, Lawrence William Sherner, p.3. [5] - Ibid, p. 4. [6] - Ibid; Andrew Jensen, History of the Ogden 15th Ward. [7] - Andrew Jensen, History of the Ogden 15th Ward. Year 1923. [8] - Letter Colleen Blankenship, 27 Feb. 2014. Return to Homes Previous Next

< Back 251 & 259 2nd Street Return to Homes 251 & 259 2nd Street Photo 2022 Augustus (1855-1936) & Alice Harrop (1854-1929) Anderson 259 2nd Street Alice, Edith, Augustus (seated), Archie; rear: Clarence, Joe. There are two homes connected between the current day care center. The larger home at 259 2nd Street was t T he 1881 home of Augustus and Alice Anderson. Augustus was born in Sweden in 1855 and “sailed on a boat to America” in 1864 settling in Huntsville and then Slaterville, Utah. His first job as a teenager was herding cows. The men he worked for were also mining gold, and they sometimes hid the gold dust in the yoke of some of the cattle so it would not be stolen. No one suspected a teenage boy of being left to guard such a treasure. Alice Harrop was born in England in 1854 and immigrated with her family to Ogden when she was three years old. Augustus and Alice married in 1880 and built this brick home in 1881. It started as a two-room adobe structure and, as the family grew, they added three more rooms and a brick exterior. When Native Americans knocked on the Anderson door, Alice always fed them. The Natives left a mark on the fence in front of the house as a signal to others that the residents here were kind. Augustus farmed and worked as a supervisor of roads and streets in the county; he served the community as Lynne Irrigation president and a volunteer fireman. See Appendix. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 251 2nd Street Joseph (1884-1966) & Viola Purdy (1889-1978) Anderson Viola & Joe Anderson Augusts and Alice’s son, Joseph Augustus Anderson, was born in 1884 and married Viola Purdy in 1906. In 1907 they built their two-room home next door to Joe’s parents. In time Joe added on four more rooms. Joe helped many persons build their homes on 2nd Street and built several to sell like the one at 215 2nd Street. In time he made carpentry and home building his vocation. He also served as a volunteer fireman. While their five children were growing up, the spur of the Oregon Short Line was in operation and the train passed in front of their house. The passing engineers were friendly and sometimes blew steam to scare the children off the tracks or fence. They threw live savers to the children who threw back pears or apples in season. [1] Viola was a wonderful mother and an entertainer. She invited neighbors over for quilting bees and held parties for neighbors and family. Even the advent of World War 1 did not stop her gatherings for life must go on with small happiness in spite of world politics. Card tables were set up for card games; High Five was a popular game of choice. Guests pinned on cards and the children who acted as the servants, punched the winner’s card and served refreshments. The card with the most punches won a prize and the booby card won a prize also. Viola’s gatherings helped to lift spirits during the war. In about 1980, the house was remodeled into a child care center that eventually connected to Augustus Anderson’s house next door. Daughter Hazel Anderson Greenwood thought that the day care center would make her mother and grandmother very happy because they both had a great love for children. [2] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- APPENDIX Standard Examiner, Sept. 3, 1963. [1] - Anna Keogh interview with Hazel Anderson Greenwood, 1998. [2] - Ibid. Return to Homes Previous Next

< Back Return to Roads Old Springs Way There was a large spring of water in this area where the public stopped to water their horses from the 1850s to the 1920s. People on horseback or in wagons coming and going from Slaterville to Five Points liked to stop at this spring on the north side of 2nd to water their horses and get drink for themselves. There were as many as five springs in today’s Fort Bingham area that furnished good fresh water. [1] In the Nineteenth Century, the schoolhouse was always located near a good spring. Pupils took turns cleaning out the spring each day. The pupil who cleaned out the spring had to put his arm in the water and dig out the dirt that had collected in the spring during the day with his hand. He had to bank the dirt around the sides so that the flow would be better, and by doing this after school, by the next day the water would be clear for the pupils to drink. [2] The Old Spring on the north side of 2nd Street was a stopping place for persons on bikes in about 1900. [1] - Autobiography of Sarah Stone Crowther, manuscript, typed 1959 by Macel Stone Montgomery; interview Chauncey Stone by Macel Stone Montgomery,1958, p. 1. [2] - Autobiography of Mary Elizabeth Hutchens Sherner, transcribed by Dorothy Sherner, Mary Elizabeth-Her Stories, manuscript, 1933, p. 72. Previous Return to Roads Next

< Back Return to Roads Lynne School Lane & History This road was named Lynne School Lane in 2002 when the Aspen Acres subdivision began construction. Three historic schools have been located on the east corner of Lynne School Lane and West 2nd Street, and two of them were named Lynne School. Following is the history of all seven schools built in the Lynne Community from 1853 to 2009. 1 - 1852, Log, Bingham School The first school was called Bingham School was located in 1853 on the east corner of today’s Lynne School Lane and W 2nd Street. Isaac Newton Goodale built the log Bingham School on the east corner of a little lane and West 2nd Street with some help from Henry Gibson. From the end of October to the end of December 1853 Goodale recorded efforts to get logs for the schoolhouse, trips to the sawmill, and the making of a door, frames and trusses. He even worked on the schoolhouse Christmas day and all the rest of the week to complete the new log school on December 31, 1853, just in time for a New Year’s dance for the community. “Subscriptions” or tuition payments were expected for each pupil. A subscription school provided a way for the pioneers to educate their children, since there were no public monies available to provide for education in the 1850s. But collecting the payment was difficult for Newt Goodale since money was scarce. Subscriptions could be paid in farm goods or any item agreed upon for barter. [1] The school house did not face 2nd Street; it faced to the west on the little lane that exited 2nd Street exactly ½ mile from Washington Blvd.; the little lane led to a farm north of the school. 2 - 1863, Log, Mill Creek School The second school was called Mill Creek School was located in 1863 on the SE intersection of today’s railroad track and W 2nd Street. The site for the second schoolhouse was built on today’s SE intersection of the railroad tracks and W 2nd Street. At that time the railroad tracks did not exist, but there was a lane connecting W 2nd Street and W 12th Street called Mill Creek Lane. The schoolhouse faced on Mill Creek Lane as it exited 2nd Street and was called the Mill Creek School. Mill Creek meandered two blocks south of the school, and at lunch time the children sometimes liked to take a break, go down the lane and swim in Mill Creek. The girls swam in their petticoats and hung them on the bushes to dry. The Mill Creek School was larger than the Bingham School and had a large stone fireplace on one wall. When school was not in session, new immigrants were allowed to stay in the school house while they looked for a place to settle. [2] In the fall of 1865 the teacher, Mrs. Amanda Bingham, made the first fire of the season in the great fireplace of the schoolhouse. The fireplace and the hearth extended out into the room, and the hearth was composed of a number of large rocks with spaces between them. When the fire began burning brightly, one of the boys called out, “Look at that big snake!”. Startled, the children looked up and saw a huge bull snake crawling out of a hole between the rocks of the hearth. The teacher screamed, the little girls began to cry, and the boys seemed quite unconcerned. “That is just a bull snake; it won’t hurt anyone; it just eats frogs!” one of the boys called out. Mrs. Bingham called on a boy to open the door. The snake was about 6 feet long. It slowly emerged from the narrow space in the hearth and slowly crawled toward the open door. As soon as it left, the boy slammed the door shut. Long afterwards when the little girls would be playing outside, they would remember the terrible snake and be on the lookout for it. When they were about to sit in the grass, one of them would say, “Look out, the snake may be there!” But they never saw the snake again. [3] 3 - 1866, Adobe, Lynne School The third school was named Lynne School and was located in 1866 on the east corner of today’s Lynne School Lane and W 2nd Street. In about 1866, when it was known that the train tracks would soon replace Mill Creek Lane, the community built their third schoolhouse back on the site of the 1853 Bingham School. The third school was larger than the Mill Creek School; it was an adobe structure built by taxation and named Lynne School. The name “Lynne” came from Scotland. In 1863 assistant Ogden postmaster, Walter Thompson, named the 2nd Street postal route Lynne after the town in Scotland where he was born. He said the beauty of the 2nd Street area reminded him of his beautiful native home. This adobe schoolhouse was a step-up from the log structures; it had one big room that was plastered and whitewashed, and the roof was shingled. The school was heated with a tall iron stove. Nancy Jane Gates, Henry Tracy, and Peter Sherner taught at this school. Church meetings, irrigation meetings, dances, and spelling bees were held in the schoolhouse; it was the heart of the growing community. [4] 4 - 1877, Soft Brick, Lynne School The fourth school was named Lynne School and was located in 1877 on the east corner of today’s Lynne School Lane and W 2nd Street; photo c. 1910. In 1877 the fourth schoolhouse of the community was built on the east corner of today’s Lynne School Lane and W 2nd Street. Frederick A. Miller, William B. Hutchens and Rasmus Erastus Christofferson were in charge of the construction of this brick school which retained the name Lynne School. It was 24 x 40 feet and was erected at a cost of about $2,300, furniture $300, total $2,600. Apostle F. D. Richards of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints dedicated the school on December 9, 1877. The entrance was on the west side of the building. When this large brick school was completed, the adobe Lynne school was torn down. Laura Rogers served as a teacher at the brick Lynne School before her marriage to Stephen W. Perry in 1887. [5] Standard article January 1890 about the party at the Lynne School In 1889 free schools were established in Ogden. In 1890 Ogden City expanded its boundaries to annex the Lynne Precinct, and the Lynne School trustees had to turn their school over to the superintendent of Ogden City schools. Ogden’s free school law of 1889 increased the school enrollment dramatically. The old brick Lynne School was not adequate for the large flux of new students, so the Ogden school board abandoned it. Judge Thomas D. Dee sold the brick Lynne School to Victor Reno Senior for $500, and Mr. Reno remodeled it into a private residence in 1892; the residence was destroyed by fire in the 1970s. [6] Victor Reno Sr. residence at 198 W 2nd St; Lynne School is on the left; the house fronted on W 2nd Street; photo courtesy Vicky Frost, circa 1910. Today’s Lynne School Lane roadway was once a dirt lane that led to the Reno farm north of the school, as pictured below; the lane existed from the 1850s to 2002. [7] YESTERDAY: Reno Farm Lane TODAY: Lynne School Lane; Mary Maxham house on the left; photo 2010. 5 - Circa 1892, Brick, Five Points School The fifth school was the c. 1892 Five Points School on the NW corner of Adams and 3rd Street. The Ogden School board built the fifth school of the area named Five Points School on the NW corner of Adams and 3rd Street in the early 1890s. Class picture at the Five Points School 6 - Circa 1925, Brick, Lincoln School About forty years later the Five Points School was updated and enlarged and renamed the Lincoln School in honor of Abraham Lincoln. 1972 demolition photo shows the 1890s Five Points School on the right and the c. 1925 addition of the Lincoln School on the left; photo courtesy G. Sherner. 7 - 1950s, Lynne Elementary School In the 1950s the Lincoln School was replaced with a new school at about 635 Grant Ave. named Lynne Elementary School. This was the seventh school of the area and the third one named Lynne. The seventh school was named Lynne School was built in the 1950s at 635 Grant Ave. 8 - 2009, Heritage Elementary School In 2009 Lynne Elementary was replaced by Heritage Elementary School, the eighth school of the area located at 373 S. 150 W.; this location is just two blocks south of the first log Bingham School built 156 years earlier. It was named Heritage for the historic heritage of 2nd Street and the Five Points Community. The eighth school is named Heritage Elementary and is located at 373 S. 150 W. [1] - Andrew Jensen, History of the Lynne Ward , manuscript, 1893, Church Library of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah, Microfilm #LR 6405 2; Journal of Isaac Newton Goodale. [2] - Andrew Jensen, History of the Lynne Ward; Autobiography of Mary Elizabeth Hutchens Sherner, transcribed by Dorothy Sherner, Mary Elizabeth-Her Stories, manuscript, 1933, p. 41, 58, 85. [3] - Ibid, p. 71-72. [4] - Andrew Jensen, History of the Lynne Ward. [5] - Ibid. Obituary of Laura Perry. [6] - Andrew Jensen, History of the Lynne Ward; Editor Milton R. Hunter, Beneath Ben Lomond’s Peak, The Weber County Chapter of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers, copyright 1944, p. 534. [7] - Aspen Acres subdivision is built on the former 1858 20-acre pioneer farm of William Stone that was valued at $200 in the 1860 census. In 1887 Ed Stone sold the farm to Victor Reno Senior, and the farm remained in the Reno family for 114 years until 2001 when it was sold for the Aspen Acres Subdivision. Previous Return to Roads Next