West Bountiful History
Onion Street, pioneer springs, and a blacksmith’s cabin
James Fackrell, Sr. began farming here shortly after 1847, directed — the story goes — by Native Americans to land rich with fresh springs and creeks. West Bountiful incorporated as a town in 1948 and became a city in 1962.
Worth Knowing
- Onion Street: in the 1920s–30s, 200–300 trainloads of Yellow Sweet Spanish onions shipped out each year, earning 800 West its nickname
- The Wood cabin: an 1870 homestead cabin — later Joseph Cotton Wood’s blacksmith shop, where Utah’s first wheel-hoe and Davis County’s first wheelchair were made — now stands in City Park
- Victorian mansions: wealthy pioneer families built homes by the 1900s that still stand today
Source: West Bountiful history.
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