geographical location

Ogden (Utah)

The situation of Ogden in the United States

Ogden is about the same latitude as Benevent in Campania in southern Italy. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 70.2 km² (27.1 square miles). The city's altitudes range from about 1300 to 1600 meters above sea level.

The rivers Ogden and Weber, which originate in the mountains in the east, flow through the city and meet at a confluence west of the city border. The Pineview Dam is located in the Ogden River Canyon 11 km east of Ogden. The reservoir behind the dam provides more than 140 billion m³ (110,000 hectares) of water storage and serves as a recreational area.

The highest neighboring mountain peaks are Mount Ogden (2920 m) to the east and Ben Lomond (2961 m) to the north.

Municipalities and neighboring municipalities

Ogden and its surroundings

Like many in the US, the city is characterized by a large-scale, network-like ground plan with many blocks. The roads are numbered from north to south, which is expressed in the corresponding street name. The census begins, as in Salt Lake City, at the center of the LDS Church. Extending the numerical data with direction indications ("E" for East and "W" for West) will clarify their relative relationship to the central point. In the center of the city, blocks from Union Station along 25th Street, the east-west side streets are named after former US presidents such as Lincoln Avenue, Grant Avenue, Washington Boulevard, Adam Avenue, Jefferson Avenue or Madison Avenue. The central road in north-south direction is the Harrison Boulevard. The urban area is divided into six districts: North End to the north, including West Ogden, Downtown and East Central, to the east including East Bench and Shadow Valley.

From the south to the west to the north are the neighboring municipalities of Ogden: South Ogden, Roy, West Haven, Marriott-Slaterville, Farr West, Pleasant View and North Ogden.

geology

In the early Mesozoic period, a final seabed was formed during the trias with the Thaynes limestone before the region was raised. The early Triassic Moenkopi formation is a sandstone with thin limestone layers that spill when the sea spreads over the water. The thickest sediments of the Jura are located east of Ogden in the so-called Devil's Slide and Marysvale. In the Jungpleistocene, the urban area of Ogden was located below the waterline of Lake Bonneville, which reached its largest extent at 52,000 km² some 16,000 years ago. When the natural dam of this lake erupted 14,500 years ago, it triggered the Bonneville flood, which flooded large parts of the northwestern territory of today's US. Today's groundwater level in Ogden is determined by the Pineview Dam, which is filled by the influx from 146 sources in the Ogden Valley.

climate

Depending on the variant of the Köppen climate classification, Ogden has either a wet subtropical climate (Cfa) or a humid continental climate (Dfa) of the dry medium widths. While summer and winter are very strong, spring and autumn are hardly visible. Summer is hot and relatively dry, with peak temperatures often at 35°C, reaching 38°C on a few days a year. Rain is produced in the form of rare thunderstorms in the summer, mostly between mid-July and mid-September during the high season of the monsoon. The Pacific storm normally lasts from around October to May, with rainfall peaking in spring. Snow usually does not occur until late October or early November, the last snow falls sometime in April. Winter is cool and snow-rich, with average temperatures of 3°C in January. The average annual temperature in the city is between 5.2 and 17.5 °C. Although the annual precipitation is only 558 millimeters (compared to Cologne: 798 millimeters), it is higher than evaporation, which is why a humid climate prevails. The total snowfall is about 100 cm on average. The warmest months are July and August with an average of 33 and 31.8 °C, the coldest months are December and January with -5.1 and -5.9 °C, respectively. Most rainfall in the month of May and August falls at an average of 66 millimeters, the lowest in July at an average of 21 millimeters. The thermal extreme range ranges from -27 °C on 26 January 1949 to 41 °C on 14 July 2002.

flora and fauna

Animals on the Bonneville Trail in Ogden

grasshopper, 2019

praying woman, 2019

Wespen, 2019

Reh, 2019

The beavers living in the Ogden and Logan Ranger District are so numerous that they force beaver management. There are some mammals living in urban space that move relatively freely between the vast gardens of the house, such as mules' cherries. The low shrub vegetation of the Wasatch chain is used by worshippers (Mantodea), wasps, grasshoppers and numerous dragonflies as a habitat. Snakes can only be observed in higher layers and in high heat, as can spiders of birds. The American squirrels and chipmunks, on the other hand, are very numerous. Opened in 2009, the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center Northern Utah, based in Ogden, is dedicated to the care and rehabilitation of wildlife (2019: 23,810). Every month, more than 100 different native wildlife species are successfully re-introduced. In 2018, there were more than 2,513 birds and small mammals.

On Antelope Island, opposite, there are some larger mammalian plant-eating populations, such as more than 500 bison, 250 mules, 200 Californian colossal horns or pronghorn antelopes, but also predators like coyotes, lynx, and eagle.

On the hills of the Wasatch chain, the desert leg is very common, as in many other parts of the Great Basin. As they require little water and a lot of sun, sunflower is very common.

Before the foundation of the city

The oldest traces of human settlement in Utah were discovered in 2016, when a 12,300-year-old fireplace and settlements were discovered on the test site of the Hill Airbase in southern Ogden.

Traces of the representatives of the Fremont culture, were also found in Ogden. The Fremont culture, named after the Fremont River in Utah, was characterized by similarities in corn cultivation, clay brick architecture, mine houses and ceramics. At the end of the 14th century, fremont culture was in crisis for climate-related reasons and was replaced by Well-groups, the ancestors of the Shoshonen and Comanche from the Great Basin.

start-up of the city (1846-1900)

• Ogden, 1874, photographed by Timothy H. O'Sullivan

• Ogden, 1875

• Ogden, 1890

• Ogden railway junction, 1891

• Ogden on the Union Pacific Railway network, 1891

• Ogden, 1906

Originally called Fort Buenaventura, Ogden was the first permanent settlement of people of European origin in today's Utah. It was founded in 1846 by Trapper Miles Goodyear and was located about two kilometers west of today's city center. In November 1847 , Captain James Brown bought the fort and surrounding land of today's Weber County together with some farm animals for $3,000. The settlement around Fort Buenaventura was then renamed to Brownsville. In 1850, Chief Terrikee, the Indian leader in the Weber area, was killed by a city leader (urban stewart), leading to Indian insurgencies.

In 1848, the governor of Utah territory, Brigham Young, sent Missionar Lorin Farr from Salt Lake City northwards to Weber County to colonize it. Farr became the first mayor of Ogden City on 6 February 1851 and remained so for 20 years. The first mention of an executive in Ogden was the appointment of B.W. Nolan to the City Marshal in 1851. In 1853 a so-called Spanish wall was started to build the city. According to the U.S. Census lists, in 1854 about 150 families lived in Ogden. The Sheriff of the Weber Convention also had its headquarters in Ogden, which worked closely with the city and county courts together with the City Marshal.

Beus Park south, 2019

The first known inhabitants are Michael Beus (1811-1888) and his wife Marianne Beus (1813-1910), who arrived in Ogden on September 26, 1856 after a 2100 km (1300 miles) long tour. They settled in the area of today's Beus Park and the Dee Event Center and built the existing dam at the pool of the Beus Park. The Beus Canyon was named after them, which then led them to the plain of the Great Lakes. The family planted mulberry trees to feed them for the mulberry. In 1860, the Ogden Canyon built a first road.

The first railway station in Ogden was a small two-story building on the banks of the Weber River, built in 1860. The facility quickly became inadequate, so that the Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad jointly built a much larger Union Station made of brick and a central clock tower in 1889. In 1866 the telegraph line was extended from Salt Lake City to Ogden. The Grand Station opened on December 31, 1889 and included 33 hotel rooms, a restaurant and a hairdresser. On February 13, 1923, fire started in one of the hotel rooms and quickly spread to the station. No one was injured or killed, but the buildings had to be completely renovated. John and Donald Parkinson, CEO of an architectural firm in Los Angeles, designed the new building. On April 8, 1924, the last old wall fell and revealed an intact, copper box containing historical materials from the 1880s. The large hall was completed in 1924. In the 1960s, the increasing use of automobiles, motorways and air traffic reduced passenger traffic by rail across the country and also in Ogden.

Browning Gun Shop in Ogden, 1882

The Hayden expedition, which was intended to explore the West of the United States, began on June 11, 1871 in Ogden with 34 men and 7 cars to the north. Led by the geologist Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, she led to the area of today's Yellowstone National Park. Two years later, in 1873, the U.S. Geological Survey conducted research in Ogden. The camp was documented by photographer William Henry Jackson (1843-1942).

In the spring of 1878, John Moses Browning started working on his first single-loading booth in the arms business of his father in Ogden. The application for a patent for the single-loading box was registered on May 12, 1879 and granted as a US patent 20271 on October 7, 1879. Also starting in 1878, a telephone system was installed.

The 18th was the first president to visit the state of Utah. President Ulysses S. Grant to Salt Lake City on 3 October 1875. He met with the chairman of the LDS Church, Brigham Young, on the track from Ogden. During his second visit in 1879, the President also visited the city for a short stopover. His successor, the 19th President Mr. Rutherford B. Hayes, during his visit to Utah on September 5, 1880, stopped in Ogden and met the leader of the LDS Church, John Taylor, during his journey from Ogden to Salt Lake City. Hayes was accompanied by General William T. Sherman.

The first extension of the town hall was completed in 1888. The main streets in Ogden were initially named after important figures of the LDS Church. Under the first non-moral mayor, Fred J. Kiesel (1889-1891), the streets were renamed Ogden’s interior on April 5, 1889. The north-south roads were named after American presidents, the West-East roads were numbered before, but the original census was changed to include urban expansion. This is how former First Street became the 21st Street. One of the few streets not renamed was Wall Avenue, which was built along 1855 a so-called "Spanish Wall" with an altitude of 2.43 m (eight feet) between 21st Street and 28th Street. The first street was the 25th Street between Washington Avenue and Wall Avenue in 1893, at a cost of $100,000.

On December 29, 1890, the Orpheum Theater was opened in Washington Avenue with a capacity of 1750 seats. Among the performers were the Marx Brothers, Jenny Lind and Burns and Allen. As a result of various changes in ownership and modifications, such as in 1925 and 1928, the number of places decreased to 1152 in 1940 and 1037 in 1950. In the 1940s, the theater was replaced by a cinema. In 1954, the building was further modernized, with a distinctive Turkish minaret architecture. The cinema was abandoned in 1982 and the building was demolished in 1983 in favor of parking spaces for the nearby Bigelow-Ben Lomond Hotel.

Between prostitution and prohibition (1900-1950)

Depot in Ogden, 1910

By 1900, Ogden was a major industrial center that attracted established businessmen from all over the world. This led to more millionaires per capita in Ogden than in any other city in the United States during its heyday. Ogden grew rapidly. Shops, cafes, mills, lounges and hotels were built along the Mormon blocks built by Brigham Young. In particular, the visits of presidents have often led to economic and structural shifts in the city. The 25th However, on 26 May 1901, President William McKinley was in Ogden for only about 20 minutes at midnight. The visit scheduled for the day was not possible because his wife had illness and she returned home early.

Industrial prostitution flourished in Ogden along with economic development. This was founded on Odgens’s long-term function as a supra-regional railway hub and was embodied in the personality of Dora B. Topham, who was "Madame Belle London" leading an organized prostitution ring in the city. In early 1900, Belle London organized prostitution at today's historic 25th Street near the central railway depot and used the London Ice Cream Salon as a facade for one of her brothels. In Ogden, she had 100 small chambers built on a so-called "floor," which the prostitutes had to rent for one to four dollars a day. After less than three years the "Stockade" was closed and torn down because Dora B. Topham was sentenced to 18 years in prison for hiring a 16-year-old. When the conviction was later lifted, she moved with her two daughters to California, where she died a few years later.

The motorbike pioneer George A. Wyman (1877-1959), the first transcontinental crossing of the United States from New York City to San Francisco from May 16 to July 6, 1903, reached Ogden on May 28, where he visited the then bicycle shop of L.C. H. Becraft repaired his motorized bicycle.

When a fire broke out in the Eccles Building on the night of November 15, 1911, the subsequent major fire in downtown caused $750,000 in damage.

On 17 March 1915, the 2,200-person Alhambra Theater was opened with a concert by the Ogden Tabernacle Choir; The first silent movie featured was Charlie Chaplin's "The Champion." On May 3, 1916, Jack Dempsey won ten rounds in a boxing match against Terry Kellar in the theater. In 1923, A bought. 1. Glasmann, the owner of the nearby Orpheum Theater, the Alhambra Theater. In 1934, the Paramor Theaters also operated the Orpheum Theater, the Lyceum Theater and the Colonial Theater. There have been repeated conversions between different owners. Before 1971, the theater was demolished; the site is now used as a parking space behind the magnificently restored Peery’s Egyptian Theater.

Personal dialog was important for the relationship between American presidents and the LDS Church. This was usually held on the way between Ogden and Salt Lake City when the presidents traveled by train. In 1919, the 28th President Woodrow Wilson Ogden, on 23 September. Four years later, the 29th President Warren G. Harding in 1923 on his way through Utah Intermediates in Ogden and Salt Lake City to the Chairman of the LDS Church, Heber J. Grant, meet.

In 1924, Marriner S. Eccles (1890-1970), together with his brother George and members of the Browning family, founded the Eccles-Browning Affiliated Banks in Ogden, which was enhanced by the acquisition of further banks in Utah, Idaho and Wyoming. The management of the banks took over the holding company First Security Corporation, co-founded by Eccles in 1928, which he headed as president. Eccles's banks survived the Great Depression that began in 1929 virtually without damage.

View of Pineview Dams, 1987

The importance of Ogden as a railway hub was also evident during the prohibition in the United States, when many illegal breweries and distilleries were operating in the city. The visit to Ogden on 32nd February 2006 will highlight the extent to which the US presidents intervened in Ogden's regional policy. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who visited Utah twice during his presidency. In September 1935, he gave a 25-minute speech about the rear of the train that stood at the Union Station in Ogden. The city's discussions with the president went so well that in the same year, on November 16, he approved the Ogden River project that envisaged the construction of the Pineview Dam. It was completed in 1937.

In the wake of World War II, the railway network was once again used more, leading to the revival of Ogden. More than 100 Ogden passenger trains passed every day during the high operation in the Second World War.

During the World War, almost 400,000 Germans and Italians were interned in the US as prisoners of war in the 1940's. More than 8,000 of these camps were located in more than 10 camps between Logan and Salina in the state of Utah. The largest of these camps was the Camp Ogden, in the field of the Defense Depot Ogden, which was founded in 1941 and is now part of the Ogden Business Depot. Later, the George E. Elections Ogden Veterans Home built on the land where the prisoner of war camp was located. Some of the prisoners became US citizens after the war.

The railway accident at Bagley, in which two trains ran at Bagley station approximately 27 km west of Ogden on 31 December 1944, killed 50 people and injured 79. In 1951, 17 passengers died and 159 were injured in a major collision between two power lines that had started in Ogden shortly after, on the border between Wyoming and Utah.

Between segregation and stagnation (1950-1990)

Gantry Sign in Ogden before Ben Lomond, 2019

During the Korean War, the Ogden Air Logistics Complex grew the number of civilian employees from 3656 (June 1950) to 12,210 (August 1952). Of only 150,000 million tons of material converted in 1949, the figure rose to around 2.15 million tons annually in 1951, 1952, and 1953. With the decline in rail transport from the end of the 1950s onwards, the city entered a period of decline that lasted until the early 1990s. In 1954, house brokers attempted to create separate neighborhoods in Salt Lake and Ogden, using skin colors. Although the Ogden Business Depot was operated from 1941 to 1997, it was not strong enough to stop the decline. Passenger rail transport disappeared more and more, with the exception of the train company Amtrak, which traveled through Ogden three times a week between 1971 and 1983. In particular, the increase in the transport of mail by aircraft accelerated the decline of freight transport by rail. In addition, the expansion of interstates in the transport of goods to the roads since the 1950s has led to the increase in the number of goods transported by road. True, some government agencies and defense-related companies continued to move to Ogden - including the Internal Revenue Regional Center, Marquardt Corporation, Boeing Corporation, Volvo-White Truck Corporation, Morton-Thiokol, and other smaller companies and some CEOs made significant efforts to bring more private business into the region and becoming independent of government industry, but this was not enough to compensate for the loss of rail transport. During the Vietnam War, 30 Ogden-born US soldiers died, mainly during the 1960's. The statements of five survivors of the Vietnam War were later documented by the University of Utah.

The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints reinforced their initiatives in Ogden in 1972 a hundred years after the opening of the railway line through the construction and inauguration of the Ogden Utah Temple. Officially on the grounds to alleviate the congestion of the temples in Salt Lake City and Provo.

The lowest point in the difficult economic period was the so-called hi-fi killings of Ogden, which in 1974 put the city in the (international) national headlines: In a brutal attack, five people were taken hostage and forced to drink liquid discharge cleaners. Three people died, two survived with irreparable damage.

In 1980, the Ogden City Mall was opened in order to counter the decline in consumption in the city center, whose main business was J.C. Penney, Nordstrom, Bon Marché and Zion Cooperative Mercantile Institution (ZCMI). In 1987, singer Tiffany filmed her music video for I Think We’re Alone Now at the Ogden City Mall. The two-story mall was very popular until the 1990s, but after the loss of such important stores as "Nordstrom" or "Weinstock's", it was downhill so quickly that it was demolished in 2003. The 8.1 hectare entertainment complex The Junction was built in its place, where there is a Megaplex 13 theater and indoor skydiving or indoor surfing. In the early 1980s, low-cost ultra-light aircraft were produced in Ogden under the leadership of John Chotia, a pilot. On September 10, 1982, President Ronald Reagan visited the Ogden Deseret Cannery and the Bishop's storehouse in Ogden.

Renewal after 1990

Union Pacific 4014 in Ogden, 150th anniversary of the Golden Spike, 2019

Since Weber State University gained full state university status and its current name on January 1, 1991, it has become one of the most important universities in Utah, attracting students from all over the United States and 60 other countries.

It was only through the efforts of the Chamber of Commerce and various economic organizations that Ogden moved again a large number of industrial and commercial companies to its industrial park and shopping centers in the early 1990s.

In 2011, the state of Utah elevated the Browning M1911, developed by John M. Browning in Ogden, to an official symbol of the state.

Ogden's historical significance to the US presidents was due to its traffic hub function, to the federal ownership in Ogden, which established state-owned logistical facilities such as the Ogden Defense Depot or the Ogden Air Logistics Complex (on the grounds of the Hill Air Force Base), and to the war (Second World War,) logistical operations. On 2 and 3 April 2015, President Barack Obama made a stopover on Air Force One at the Hill Air Force Base in Ogden. The President arrived there on 2 April and announced measures for renewable energy in a speech. In January 2019, the longest government shutdown ever in American history, 5,000 government employees in Ogden were affected, particularly the Treasury and the Forestry Administration. The 150th anniversary of the Golden Spike was celebrated by almost 100,000 visitors to Ogden from May 9 to 12, 2019.

development

The population in 2018 was 87,325. The number of inhabitants had been steadily increasing in the first hundred years and peaking in 1960, but, due to the economic decline, it fell until 1990. Since then, however, the number has increased again, particularly as a result of the influx of Spanish-speaking immigrants.

LDS Temple in Ogden, 2018

Between 73 and 78 percent of Ogden's inhabitants are committed to a Christian religion, with four percent indicating a non-Christian religion, one percent of which is Jewish, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism. Between 55 and 62 percent of the population belong to the Mormones (Latter-day Saints, LDS). Among the numerous evangelical free churches are about seven percent of the inhabitants of Ogden, while the various Mainline Protestant Churches are about six percent. The Roman Catholic Church of Ogden comprises between five and 8.7 per cent of the population; they are the second largest group after the Mormon. Jehovah's Witnesses and Orthodox churches each account for less than one percent.

Christian commitments

Compared to Salt Lake City and other regions in Utah, the Mormones are not quite so often present in Ogden. The number of faithful who belong to the temple in Ogden is 135,000. Completed in 1972, the Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the fourteenth of its kind. It was originally built with a modern design very similar to the temple in Provo, but the renovation, completed in 2014, changed the exterior and interior.

In Ogden there are four Roman Catholic communities belonging to the Bistum of Salt Lake City. In 1899, the St. Joseph’s Catholic Church was consecrated, the St. James the Just Catholic Church in 1966, and the community of the Holy Family Catholic Church in 1979 (today’s church building in 2008). Catholic church services are also organized by the Weber State University Newman Center. From 1947 to 2017, the Trappist Abbey of Huntsville was located in the east of Ogden at an altitude of over 2000 m.

In Ogden there are more than 51 individual Christian communities and churches.

Judaism

The Jewish community of Brith Sholem ("Alliance of Peace") comprised some 45 households in 2019. The interior of the synagogue inaugurated in 1921 in the presence of some 1000 people in Grant Avenue fell victim to a fire on 30 December 1989, caused by a fire. The Jews, mostly of German origin, left Salt Lake City as a result of the movement of the Zion's Cooperative Mercantile Institution towards Corinne. A group began meeting in the clothing business of Benjamin Oppman on 25th Street. The many Jewish inhabitants of 25th Street brought her the nickname "Small Jerusalem". They began to meet under the name "Ohab Sholem" in 1890, making it the oldest perennial Jewish community of Utah. During that time, the community was so Orthodox that it planned to build separate prayer rooms for women. In 1916 she was renamed to Brith Sholem. Later, the movement toward reform youth changed. One of the most prominent Jews was Fred Kiesel, a merchant born in Württemberg who was elected mayor of Ogden in 1889. Ogden was also home to Ad and Abraham Kuhn, the cousins of Abraham Kuhn, who founded the investment bank Kuhn, Loeb & Co. in 1867, together with Salomon Loeb in New York City. Today, about half of families are interreligious. The small community doesn't have a full-time rabbi, but has rabbinic students flying in from Los Angeles once a month.

Ogden Municipal House, West, 2019

municipal council

Ogden is governed by a mayor's council, in which the mayor is the executive and the seven-member legislature. All elected officials have a term of four years, with elections taking place in odd years and periods beginning in January of even years.

The government of Ogden City had a budget of $190 million per year in 2019, and employed nearly 600 full-time employees. In addition to the provision of common local services, the government promotes economic and economic development. The city operates a redevelopment agency (RDA), with the city council acting as RDA board and the mayor acting as managing director. Since its inception in 1969, the RDA's activities have multiplied, with tax revenues of around $10 million per year and outstanding debt of more than $50 million. The designated regeneration areas now comprise almost all of Ogden’s central business districts, as well as the Ogden business repository and several other industrial districts in the west of the city.

mayor

The mayors of Ogden have been:

town twinning

Since 1954 there has been a town partnership with Hof in Bavaria. This was the first German-American town twinning ever. In 1954, Friedrich Poppenberger (1904-1992) and Heinrich Giegold (1924-2006) participated in a cultural exchange program initiated by the United States of America, in which the two Germans co-operated in the conclusion of the first German-American town partnership.

Historic 25th Street

Historic 25th Street, West, 2019

Historic 25th Street is a historical district in Ogden, the western part of which is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The district stretches over three blocks of 25th Street, starting with Wall Avenue at the western end and ending with Washington Avenue on the east, passing through the Lincoln and Grant Avenues. The history of the road begins with the opening of the Union Station at the western end of the road, during the completion of the First Transcontinental Railway in 1869. In the early 20th century it was an active center with retail shops, restaurants, bars, hotels and laundries. The street was also a place of illegal activities such as gambling, prostitution and drug sales. Known as two-bit Street, the street received such a shabby reputation that even Al Capone allegedly said that Ogden was too wild a city for him. Another legend tells of a system of underground tunnels created by smugglers during the Prohibition, reaching from the Union Station to the Bigelow-Ben Lomond Hotel at the eastern end of the district. Today, the Historic 25th Street offers restaurants, art galleries, retail shops and outdoor events such as car shows. There is a weekly farm market every Saturday morning (9-14 am) between the end of June and mid-September. The Washington Boulevard between 20th and 26th Street, including the intersection with 25th Street, is commonly called The Vard and forms the heart of the Downtown Ogden along with 25th Street. Regional development plans, which provide for traffic calming and widespread use by pedestrians, are only implemented on the days with events.

Theaters and museums

Peery’s Egyptian Theater, between 1980 and 2006, photographed by Carol M. Highsmith

The Peery’s Egyptian Theater is a multi-purpose theater with 800 seats, originally built in 1924 by Harmon and Lewis Peery as a film palace. By the 1980's, it would have been almost demolished. But it could be reconstructed to be reopened in 1997 as part of the Ogden Eccles Conference Center. Peery's Egyptian Theater is one of three Egyptian cinema theaters in the northwest of the United States. The restoration was completed with the restoration of the large Wurlitzer pipe organ in 2004. The theater is owned by Weber County.

Other theaters in Ogden include The Ziegfeld Theater and the Good Company Theater.

Founded in 1981, the Hill Aerospace Museum was housed in a World War II warehouse from 1987 until it was moved to its current location in 1991. The current 5,000 square meter building includes the U.S. Air Force Museum exhibition and a Hall of Fame for aviation in Utah. In total, more than 90 aircraft from all over the world will be shown in the exhibition, along with a variety of ammunition, equipment and aid vehicles. The many aircraft on display include a B-17 Flying Fortress, an SR-71C Blackbird, an A-10 Thunderbolt II and one of the first ever F-16 Fighting Falcon USAF 79-0388 to be launched.

The Ott Planetarium is a planetarium of Weber State University, which is based on the moral sponsor and philanthropist Layton P. Ott (1930-2004) and his family. The Ott Planetarium's star theater can accommodate 60 people under a perforated aluminum dome with a diameter of 9.1 meters. Pictures and videos are projected onto the dome with a single projector from the center of the room and supported with 5.1 channel surround sound. In December 2004, Ott Planetarium upgraded its main projection system from a 1969 Spitz A4 to a Konica Minolta Mediaglobe Fulldome video system. In 2006, the planetarium received $1 million to develop education programs. Part of this money was used to purchase a 128 CPU Render cluster and workstations to produce Starshows.

In 1873/74, an observatory at Ogden was located on the 112th century. western longitude as part of a project of measuring the country west of the 100th century. The U.S. Army Signal Service has been built along the way. The first important astronomical study from Ogden is an observation of a passage of the Mercury in front of the Sun on May 6, 1878.

The Treehouse Children's Museum opened in 1992 and offers educational exhibitions and programs for more than 175,000 visitors every year. Originally, the museum was in Ogden City Mall, then on 23rd Street. The building of the Elizabeth Stewart Treehouse Museum was opened in 2006. The center of this museum is a 10-meter-high artificial tree.

• Ogden Union Station, 1976

• D & RGW No 223, 2009

• Ogden Downtown from Treehouse children's museum, 2010

• Five of the locomotives on display at Ogden Station, 2019

• Ogden Union Station, 2018

Ogden Union Station is a railway station in Ogden, at the western end of Historic 25th Street. The name of the former Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads hub reflects the common name of railway stations whose tracks and facilities are shared by railway undertakings. Today the building is no longer used as a railway hub, but as a cultural center of the city. It houses the Utah State Railroad Museum, the Spencer S. Eccles Rail Center, the John M. Browning Firearms Museum, the Utah Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum and the Browning Kimball Classic Car Museum. An art gallery displays works by local and regional artists every month. The Myra Powell Gallery offers traveling exhibitions and the permanent art collection of the station. The Union Station Research Library has an extensive collection of historical photos and documents from Ogden, which are available to the public.

The Utah State Railroad Museum was first planned during the Centenary of the Golden Spike in 1969. But it was not until 1971, when Amtrak took over passenger traffic via Ogden, that plans began to be implemented. The station building was handed over to the city of Ogden in 1977 for a period of 50 years. At the inauguration ceremony in 1978, the Union Pacific drove its famous UP 8444 (No. 844) to the new museum at the head of a passenger train from Cheyenne (Wyoming). They also donated a steam buck and a steam shovel for snow (built by ALCO 1912). These are among the last steam-powered appliances used in the Union Pacific system. In 1988, the state of Utah made Union Station the Utah State Railroad Museum. Over the years, this has led to a number of donations from the Union Pacific, including a UP 6916, a DD40AX "Centennial" (one of the largest locomotives ever built) and a D&RGW 5371, the only SD40-T2 tunnel engine in its original western coating of Denver & Rio Grande. The railway equipment was brought from other places, e.g. B. UP class FEF No 833 and a FEF-2 steam engine. The collection in Ogden also includes a 4-8-4 locomotive.

The Utah Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum is dedicated to those whose lives illustrate independence, resilience and creativity in Utah settlement and includes an Utah Cowboy Hall of Fame. A research center and library are connected to the museum.

The John M. Browning Firearms Museum displays original models of firearms designed by John M. Browning. These include guns, scrap liners, pistols, machine guns and cannons. The basic mechanisms of many modern firearms were first developed by him. Browning's designs were the basis for many of the models produced by Winchester, Colt, Remington, Stevens and Fabrique National (FN) in Belgium. A total of four generations of Browning's are represented in the museum.

Other museums in Ogden include the Spencer S. Eccles Rail Center and the Browning Kimball Classic Car Museum.

Music and cinema

Concert in amphitheater behind the Town Hall, 2019

The Ogden Amphitheater is an open-air venue in the city center of Ogden with an area of 280 square meters in front of the stage area, with 273 fixed seats, wheelchair seats and 1830 square meters of lawn. A further 840 square meters of pavement area in the northern area is suitable for standing or exhibitors. In total, the amphitheater can accommodate 2,100 people or 7,300 people. The amphitheater is regularly used for concerts of national music (2019: The Flaming Lips, The National) as used by international artists (OMAM).

Ogden has six cinemas: The Cine Pointe Theater, Megaplex Theaters Ogden - The Junction and Cinemark Tinseltown 14, Brewvies Ogden and Walker Cinemas North Ogden. The Cinema 502 is a 27-seater cinema that can also be rented for private celebrations.

listed buildings

The four highest buildings in Ogden are the Ogden City Municipal Building built in 1939 at a height of 56 m, the Ben Lomond Hotel built in 1927 at 54 m, the 2404 Washington Boulevard at 45 m from 1927 and the 1 In 1913 Hampton Inn & Suites built at 32 m altitude.

In October 2019, 60 monuments were listed in the National Register of Historic Places in Ogden. Most of these and oldest houses - the oldest buildings are brick buildings dating from around 1889 - are located along Historic 25th Street. However, only a few closed street areas can be found. Boulders often interrupt the street front. The surrounding blocks were built in a very representative manner, especially during the late 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. This is Dennis A. Smyth House from 1889 as an example of the eclecticism of Victorian architecture. The devastating city fire in 1911 destroyed many previous buildings, but subsequently also led to the construction of new representative buildings.

Today, almost isolated at the intersection of 25th Street/Washington Boulevard, is the 54-meter-high Bigelow-Ben Lomond Hotel, built in 1927. The 5-story Reed hotel was built on the same site in 1891. The Bigelow-Ben Lomond Hotel cost $1,250,000 and was built in the Italian Renaissance-Revival style, which is unusual for Utah. Radisson bought and renovated the hotel in the 1980s. In the 1980's and 1990's, significant other buildings of the former epochs, which characterize the city's image, fell victim to demolition, often to the expansion of existing parking spaces. Despite the numerous demolition works, a number of isolated buildings have remained in Ogden, some 60 of which are classified as monuments.

• Bigelow-Ben Lomond Hotel, 2013

• Dennis A. Smyth House, 2009

• The Eccles Building, 2009

• Weber County Main Library, 2019

• Andrew J. Warner House, 2009

green areas, parks and trails

Signpost Bonneville Shoreline Trail, Ogden, 2019

In the city, the Municipal Garden offers a centrally located and generally usable green area.

The mountains and rivers of Ogden offer many possibilities for leisure activities in the mountainous terrain. An extensive network of trails on the eastern outskirts of the city provides direct access to the heights of the Wasatch Range. The foothills are used for hiking, running, mountain biking and, depending on the season, also for snowshoeing and cross-country skiing. Steep trails lead east to the mountains, as many mountain trails start right at the edge of the town. A system of paved paths runs along the banks of the rivers Ogden and Weber.

The inter-regional Bonneville Shoreline Trail follows the former shoreline of Lake Bonneville, which reached its largest extent at 52,000 km² some 16,000 years ago, and 14,500 years ago, when the natural dam broke, the Bonneville flood triggered. The entry points to the hiking trails, called "trailheads", are the Ogden Nature Center Trailhead, 420 Harrison Trailhead, Douglas Street Trailhead, 9th Street Trailhead, Hislop Drive Trailhead, 22nd Street Trailhead, Rainbow Gardens Trailhead, Mount Ogden Park Trailhead, Beus Drive Trailhead and the Beus Canyon Trailhead.

Bonneville Shoreline Trail north, with Ben Lomond, 2019

The Game's Loop has a length of 5 km (3.1 miles) and surrounds the Mt. Ogden Park. The name of the trail goes back to Gilbert "Give" Wallace (1925-2010), who for a long time created the trails in the mountainous area of Ogden. The Mt. Ogden Park is a multi-functional recreation area with sports facilities, tennis courts, picnics and playgrounds as well as an 18-hole golf course. The hilly trail is connected to the Bonneville Shoreline Trail, the Strong's Canyon Trail and the Weber State Parcours. Parts of the trail are designated for mountain biking and others for hiking. The trailheads are located on 29th Street, 36th Street, 32nd and Taylor Avenue. The Give's Loop is maintained as part of the Ogden Trails Network (OTN).

One of the 60 Fiberglass horses of the Pioneer Trail, 2015

Founded in 1994, Ogden Botanical Gardens covers an area of 12 hectares and covers more than 120 species of trees. The public park on the Ogden River is home to roses, cottage, four-year-old plants, but also Japanese, water-loving, cactus and other plants. One of the most popular areas is the large rose garden with over 50 different varieties.

Founded in 1975 as the first nature center in Utah, the Ogden Nature Center attracts around 50,000 guests every year. It has a surface area of about 6.2 km² and is home to over 149 bird species.

Founded in 1993, George S. Eccles Dinosaur Park covers more than 100 replicas of dinosaurs and flight saurists, covering 2.5 hectares. The original sculptures are based on real fossil sculptures. In 2007 the park was expanded to include the Stewart Museum and renovated in 2018.

Other trails include the Waterfall Canyon Trail, the WSU Discovery Trail, the Weber State Parcours, the Beus Canyon Trail, the Ogden River Parkway, the Riverdale Weber River Parkway, the Millennium Park Pathway, and the Mountain View Park Pathway.

The design project Trail to Pioneer Days is one of the largest public art projects in Utah. More than 60 life-sized fiberglass horses designed by renowned local artists, along Historic 25th Street, Junction and Washington Boulevard, point the way to Ogden Pioneer Stadium, where Ogden Pioneer Days originated.

Cemeteries and monuments

The Ogden City Cemetery was mentioned in a document in 1851 and today contains more than 50,000 burial sites, including John Moses Browning (1855-1926). After more than 60 years, the remains of US lieutenant Jack J., born in 1924, were also found here. Saunders, who was a Prisoner of War in a Korean prison camp during the Korean War (missing since 1953) and died. This was also where the former president of the quorum of the Twelve of the LDS Church, Thomas B, was excommunicated for apostasy. Marsh, his last resting place. The Lindquist's Washington Heights Memorial Park, also known as Washington Heights Memorial Park, is located on the Washington Boulevard in Ogden, with more than 15,000 burial sites. In 1890-1967, Republican MP Henry Aldous Dixon and actor Robert Walker (1918-1951) were buried here.

In the early days, Niels was A. Lindquist and Samuel M. Preshaw (1830-1891) are active as the graves of the dead. In the 1880s, Georg W took over. Larkin (1817-1870) founded company George W Larkin and Sons many burials in Ogden and parts of Weber County.

The America's Fallen Firefighter Memorial Park, founded on a private initiative, is centrally located on 25th Street. It aims to name all the firemen who died in service in the United States since 1800 (2019: 6827).

sport

• Dee Events Center, 2008

• Home of the Dee Events Center, 2006

• Lindquist Field—Stadium, 2009

• Powder Mountain, 2007

• Gerald R. Ford in Snowbasin, 1967

• Men's super-G in Snowbasin, 2002 Winter Olympics

There are three ski resorts on the mountains east of Ogden: Snowbasin, Powder Mountain and Wolf Mountain/Nordic Valley. Popular cross-country areas are Snowbasin and the North Fork Park of Weber County.

The Snowbasin opened in 1939 and is part of the efforts of the town of Ogden to restore the watershed of Wheeler Creek. Snowbasin is one of the oldest continuously operating ski resorts in the United States. Snowbasin grew in the first fifty years and after a major investment in elevators and snow-making facilities the Olympic Alpine ski races for downhill skiing, combination and super-G were held here in 2002. The film Frozen was shot there in 2009. Snowbasin is located on Mount Ogden at the western end of State Route 226.

Powder Mountain is the largest ski resort in the USA, according to ski areas - 34.3 km² of 154 cross-country trails, nine lifts and two off-pistes. Powder Mountain has six chairlifts (three times, four times, one four times, and one detachable four) and three towing lifts. In addition to the area accessible by the lift, it is also accessible for snow-running tracks and vehicles as well as guided tours.

Wolf Mountain (formerly Wolf Creek Utah Ski Resort) is a small, only 0.4 km² local ski resort in the Nordic Valley. The resort is known for its cheap tickets and is a good place to teach children how to ski or snowboard. The longest exit is 490 m long. Until 2005, the area was also called the Nordic Valley.

Kayaking is a popular sport on parts of the rivers Ogden and Weber. A developed kayak park is located on the Weber River in the western part of the city. The reservoirs near Ogden are also used for a variety of water sports.

The USA National Championships of the Xterra Cross Triathlon Endurance Competition have been held annually in Ogden since 2005.

Ogden is also home to the Minor League baseball team Ogden Raptors of the Pioneer League. They are playing in the Lindquist Field Stadium, which opened in 1997 (capacity: more than 8000 seats).

The races scheduled for the 2000/01 Ski World Cup on 24 and 25 February 2001 were canceled and canceled without replacement. The city was the venue for the ski-alpine speed (downhill, super-G) and curling competitions of the 2002 Winter Olympics. The previous year, the 2001 Curling Junior World Championship was held in Ogden from 15 to 25 March.

In June 2012, an international qualifying tournament took place in Ogden, where quotas were awarded for the individual and team archery competition of the 2012 London Summer Olympic Games.

The Weber State Wildcats represent the 7 men's and 9 women's athletics teams at Weber State University in Ogden. The Wildcats will take part in the NCAA Division I FCS and are members of the Big Sky Conference. Her mascot is Waldo, the wild cat, and the team colors are purple and white.

The Dee Events Center is a multifunctional indoor arena in Ogden. The circular 11,592-seat dome arena was opened in 1977 after two years of construction and was designed by the Lawrence T. Dee, because of their large contributions to the construction of the arena. As the largest arena in Utah north of Salt Lake City, it is home to Weber State University Wildcats men and women basketball teams. Until 2006, the ladies' volleyball team was also housed here. The venue has hosted the Big Sky Conference men's basketball tournaments ten times: 1979, 1980, 1984, 1995, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2009, 2010 and 2014. The first and second round of NCAA tournaments were held here three times, in 1980, 1986 and 1994, and the West Regional in 1983. At the end of the 1995/1996 season a new basketball field was laid. In the summer of 2010, a Pro-Star Vision Screen Scoreboard was installed, featuring 4 HD LCD screens and other full LED displays.

Swimming is possible in Ogden in natural watercourses such as the Ogden River or the pineview reservoir, but also in more than seven swimming and outdoor pools.

Golf is widely practiced in Ogden due to the low prices of courses in the population. There are seven golf courses in the city area.

There are numerous mountain bike trails on the eastern heights of the Wasatch mountains: Wheeler Creek To Coldwater Overlook, Bonneville Shoreline Trail - East Ogden Bench, Skyline Trail, Green Pond & Snowbasin Trail System.

Ogden offers numerous possibilities for climbing, bouldering and ice climbing, such as Malan’s Waterfall, Patriot Crack or The Cave. Most routes are connected to George Lowe and Greg Lowe. The latter is the father of Jeff Lowe (1950-2018), who is credited with bringing modern ice climbing from Europe to the United States.

Regular events

Farmersmarket on 25th Street, Ogden, 2019

The city offers events such as the Ballon Festival, Christmas Village or Wasatch Yeti Bash on about 20 weekends a year. Ogden was at times, most recently in 2016, a venue for the Sundance Film Festival. Since 2017 there is the Ogden Film Festival. In addition, since 2004, a local film festival has been held every year, the Foursite Film Festival is called.

The weekly summer farm market takes place on Saturday morning (9-14 am) between the end of June and mid-September in Historic 25th Street. After a week's break, it is replaced by the autumn farm market, which also takes place on Saturdays in the morning (9:00am-2:00pm) between the end of September and the end of October, but in the Ogden amphitheater.

Since 2001, an Ogden Marathon is held every month in May, with sportsmen taking part between 300 (2001) and more than 2500 (2014).

The city offers a concert series in summer about every second Wednesday between the beginning of June and the end of September. The LGBT community has been organizing an annual Ogden Pride Festival since 2015.

As in the United States, many shops and private houses are decorated, sometimes very extensively, for the Halloween party. The city organizes various events around the event.

tourism

In the list of 2019 of the 100 Best Places to Live in the United States, the city ranks 59th and 8th in the Forbes list of 100 Best Cities for Raising a Family. In 2014, 750,000 tourists visited the city. The main tourist attraction in the city is the Historic 25th Street. The Ogden Botanical Gardens are visited annually by 120,000 guests, the Ogden Nature Center of about 50,000 and the Treehouse Children's Museum of 175,000 visitors. In the city you will find 14 hotels and many other accommodation options in bed & breakfast or campsites.

culinary specialties

The Becker Brewing and Malting Company (BBMC) was founded in 1890 by the Bavarian family Becker in Ogden and was located at the corner of 19th Street/Lincoln Avenue. Previously, imported beers had dominated the city. However, the Becker family, trained in beer production, used traditional Bavarian brewing methods and spared no costs using only local, first-class ingredients with careful quality control. The company sold to the regional market in Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Oregon, Colorado, Arizona and California, but also to Illinois and Pennsylvania. In 1906 BMC was appointed representative of the Anheuser-Busch brewing association. In 1917, the company split its activities. The Ogden plant was renamed to Becker Products Company and the Becker Brewing Company, which took over the beer production, was established in nearby Evanston (Wyoming). When Prohibition entered into force in 1920, the brewery was able to switch to the production of non-alcoholic beers, soft drink products and ice cream. Even a chicken freezer was established. This success led the brewery until the end of Prohibition 1933 and made Becker Brewing & Malting Co. the only ready-to-operate brewery in Utah. The lack of choice of beer through the ban led in the long run to the creation of national large brewers, which undercut each other's prices and thus destroyed the local brewing industry. By 1968, the two Becker companies had to cease operations.

In Ogden, a number of microbreweries and distilleries have been established in recent years, attracting considerable media and public interest: Ogden's Own Distillery, Roosters Brewing Co., Talisman Brewing Company, UTOG Brewing and the New World Distillery.

The city center of Ogden, 2009

company

The top ten employers in 2018 were the United States Treasury Department, Weber County School District, McKay-Dee Hospital Center, Weber State University, Autoliv, State of Utah, Fresenius, Ogden City School District, America First Credit Union, Wal-Mart, The Home Depot, and Weber County, in descending order. In addition, a number of companies headquartered in Ogden include the sales and marketing company MarketStar, the automotive safety equipment supplier Autoliv North America, the banking service provider Bank of Utah and America First Credit Union, and the software company Kadince. The International Armoring Corporation is also based in Ogden.

Much of the testing of online magazine Tom's hardware is taking place in New York and a factory in Ogden owned by the parent company Purch.

The warehouse and customer service center at Wayfair, an e-commerce shipping company based in Ogden since 2011, manages shipping to the western part of the USA and is the primary customer service center. General Atomics also has a branch (2016) in Ogden.

In 1964, William G founded the company. Dilley specializes in professional audio equipment for recording studios, radio (radio and television), performing arts center, film studios and other related areas. The equipment was equipped for example at the Ardent Studios in Memphis, Tennessee.

In 2001, Autoliv relocated its airbag production from Ogden to Mexico.

The unemployment rate in Ogden is 3.8% (USA: 3.9 %). The growth rate for jobs (job growth) was 3% in 2017 and the cost of living was 2% below the national average.

media

The Standard Examiner is a daily morning newspaper published in Ogden. With around 30,000 subscribers on Sunday and 25,000 subscribers per day, it is the third largest daily newspaper in Utah after The Salt Lake Tribune and the Deseret News. It was taken over by Sandusky Newspapers, Inc. in Sandusky, Ohio, on March 23,1993. Founded by journalist Frank J. Cannon published the first edition of the newspaper founded as an evening newspaper on January 1, 1888. In 1904, the Ogden standard met the competition of the Ogden Examiner. By 1920, the standard - owned by William Glasmann - and the examiner competed until they merged on April 1, 1920, creating the standard examiner. In 2000, the standard Examiner moved to the Ogden Business Depot, a business park that housed the Defense Depot Ogden in the past. A printing press for $10 million has also been installed in the new offices. At the same time, the evening newspaper became a morning newspaper. In August 2015, the standard examiner added a Real Time Desk to his newsroom, which serves readers in Social Media. In mid-2018, The Ogden Newspapers Company from West Virginia bought most of the Ogden Standard Examiner.

The reception of at least 36 radio stations in the VHF range is indicated in Ogden and another 25 on medium wave. With a site in Ogden, six analog radio operators are sending VHFs. The non-commercial educational TV channel KWCS-TV (UHF analog channel 18), licensed in Ogden, was broadcast from 1960 to the early 1970s. The channel is owned by Weber County Schools and broadcasts educational programs for pupils in the district's primary and secondary schools. In addition, the National Education Television (NET) evening program was broadcast. KWCS-TV itself disappeared after the merger with KOET, the broadcaster of the Ogden City Board of Education. Weber County withdrew from the partnership in 1973, which led to the closure of the Ogden School Board's channel.

Public bodies

There are three large libraries available in Ogden. Founded in 1864, Weber County Library has over 500,000 media outlets and 887 subscribed magazines. The Stewart Library at Weber State University houses six archival collections as well as media for the university research and teaching establishment. At the end of April 2019 a new FamilySearch Center was opened in Ogden. The publicly accessible building offers more than 60 computer-based genealogical research opportunities in the digitized databases of FamilySearch.

Old post office building, west, 2019

The old post office and court building in Ogden was built between 1905 and 1909 in a neo-classical style. It served as a court building and post office and was registered in the National Register of Historical Places in 1979.

Hansen Federal Building Ogden, 2019

That of Keith W. Wilcox designed James V. Hansen Federal Building (originally Federal Building United States Court House), which was built between 1963 and 1965. This modernist 6-story building on the north-east corner of Grant Avenue/25th Street still contains many original features and original wooden furnishings. The building was built in 2004, following a request by President George W. Bush, renamed to James V. Hansen Federal Building. Hansen, born in Salt Lake City, served as Chairman of the Ethics Committee in the United States House of Representatives from 1980 to 2003.

Built in 1908 and reconstructed in 1933-1934, the U.S. Forest Service Building is a historic Art Deco building on 25th Street, listed in the National Register of Historic Places since 2006.

The Ogden Police Department began its work in 1855 under the direction of the Mayor. Captain Richard D. Sprague (1807-1886) became the first Ogden City Marshal on May 31, 1857. Ogden police were instructed, among other things, to stop the sale of whiskey, clean the pavements and ensure that the cattle did not cross the streets freely at night. With the completion of the railway, the Ogden City Police acquired new tasks such as the control of prostitution, alcohol and drug trafficking, and gambling. The 25th Street became the center of police work. In 1876, the 24th Street, a district court building. Prison cells were installed in the basement of the two-story brick building. In 1895, the prisoners laid a fire that destroyed the inside of the building. In 1906, City Jail and Police Court were on the corner of Hudson Ave and Lake Street; From the 1930s onwards, the headquarters were located on the corner of Lake Street and Kiesel Street. It was a three-story building with a courtroom and prison cells. In 1939, the police department was housed in the City County Building on Washington Boulevard and was stationed there until 1998. Since 1999, the police station has been located on 2186 Lincoln Avenue. Nine police officers have been killed in service since 1855. In 2019, the police in Ogden employed 143 police officers and 80 civilians. The more curious cases of the police are certainly the stories of an eight-year-old, who has also been widely circulated internationally, who wanted to take his little sister to a store by parental car, putting it against a tree, with the children left uninjured or a five-year-old interstate stopped on his way to California to buy a lamborghini.

In addition to the local police, Ogden has been the seat of the Weber County Sheriff's Office since 1852, a law enforcement agency in Weber County, which worked closely with the City Marshal and the city and country courts to enforce the law. The fire brigade is divided into the Professional Fire Fighters of Ogden Local 552 and the Firefighter Department. The Ogden Fire Service has five stations in Ogden City to respond to emergencies. The stations are staffed by professional firefighters in 24-hour operation.

health

The McKay-Dee Hospital is a non-profit public hospital run by Intermountain Healthcare. With 310 licensed beds, it is the third largest hospital in the Intermountain system and the fourth largest hospital in Utah. Although not directly linked to the university, it is located southwest of the main campus of Weber State University. The original Thomas D. The hospital Memorial Hospital was founded in 1910 by Annie Taylor Dee and her children when her husband Thomas Dee was killed in a tragic accident. They were determined to build a hospital as a memorial for him and as a service to the community. The original building was located for more than 60 years in today's Dee Memorial Park at the junction of 24th Street/Harrison Boulevard. In 1969, a new hospital was built a few kilometers south. The Dee wing there, originally called David O. McKay Hospital was established in 1971 as a rehabilitation and long-term care facility. Soon after, the entire campus was renamed to McKay-Dee Hospital. In 2002, the hospital moved further south to its present location.

Another major hospital in Ogden is the Ogden Regional Medical Center, which was founded in 1946 under the name "St. Benedict's Hospital" was founded and today consists of almost 300 doctors and 1000 medical staff.

In 1999, a healthy girl was born in Ogden who had developed outside the uterus, something that had not been recognized in obstetric sonography. It was only during a C-section that the location of pregnancy was determined.

education

• Weber State University Ogden, Northeast, 2019

• Ogden High School, Northeast, 2007

• Ben Lomond High School, 2012

• Utah School for the Deaf and Blind, 2009

Weber State University is based in Ogden. Founded in 1889 as Weber Stake Academy, the state university has over 26,000 American and international students. The university maintains exchange programs with the German universities in Bayreuth, Munich and Tübingen.

While there are 8 High Schools, 10 Junior High Schools and 30 Elementary Schools in the Weber School District, there are 3 High Schools, 3 Junior High Schools and 14 Elementary Schools in the Ogden School District. These 20 schools are attended by 12,170 students.

Construction of the Ogden High School began in 1935, led by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and is funded with $1.2 million. The school was designed by Hodson and MeClenahan, who used the new design "Art Deco," especially "classic modernity," a Greek-Roman style with decorative elements that were popular in government and private buildings at the time, such as the Ogden Municipal Building. The school was completed on September 17, 1936 and opened in August 1937. An estimated 3,000 people attended the inauguration ceremony on 29 October 1937 in the new auditorium. Since the 1980s, the Goetheschule in Einbeck has had a GAPP exchange with the Ogden High School. The impressive large building of the school is used as a film backdrop.

Ben Lomond High School, built in 1952, is also located on Harrison Boulevard, named after nearby Ben Lomond Mountain. He had received his name from Scottish settlers, because he reminded them of Ben Lomond in Scotland. This had a strong cultural influence on the school, so the bagpipe play is very popular there. The students are known as Friendly Fighting Scots. The school was originally supposed to be called "North East Ogden High School," with school colors in black and red, and spines (a reference to the trans-continental rail Golden Spike) as mascots. However, it was decided to name them after Ben Lomond. The school instead received a "Scotsman" as a mascot and the colors of traditional Scottish uniforms red, white and blue. Besides the gym, the Ben Lomond High School was completely renovated in 2006. The construction started in June 2007 and was completed in August 2010. The school and the district were awarded for the renovations. A well-known German teacher at Ben Lomond High School was Rob Bishop.

Between the Ogden High School and the Ben Lomond High School there is a strong competitive behavior which is channeled into annual sporting competitions. This rivalry culminates in a football match known as Iron Horse, in which the winner receives a trophy called "Iron Horse," a statue of two trains symbolizing Ogden's famous railway history.

The beginnings of the private St. Joseph Catholic High School date back to the parish of Saint Joseph. In 1877 the school was organized in the old St. Joseph Church. In 1881, this Saint Joseph School moved to a new building at the intersection of 26th Street/Washington Avenue. In 1923 Bishop Glass inaugurated the new Saint Joseph Grade School, built on the corner of 28th Street/Lincoln Avenue, which was in operation until autumn 1979. The Saint Joseph Grade School then bought the Quincy School from the Ogden Board of Education. The Quincy building, located at the corner of 30th Street/Quincy Avenue, now serves as a base for pre-school to eighth grade. The Saint Joseph Catholic High School was built in 1790/Lake Street in 1952 and is now used to house the ninth to twelfth class. The school serves nine municipalities and missions in the greater Ogden area and is the only Catholic primary school in the city.

The Ogden-Weber Applied Technology College is a public engineering college founded in 1971. It is the largest of the eight universities of applied sciences comprising the Utah System of Technical Colleges (USTC). The college offers an open, competency-based education that focuses on technical skills. The College offers technical training in 30 different programs, most important of which are in the fields of economy and IT, construction, health, manufacturing and service.

Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind was founded in 1884 by William Wood and Joseph Beck, parents of deaf children, at the University of Deseret (University of Utah) in Salt Lake City. When the state of Utah was admitted to the Union in 1896, the Utah School for the Deaf was moved to Ogden and supplemented it with a school for the blind. The school was at the intersection of 20th Street/Monroe Avenue, while the school for the blind was at the corner of 7th Street/Harrison Boulevard. In 1954 a new main building was built and in 1959 an extension was built in Salt Lake City. In 1991, new buildings were built on campus at 742 Harrison Boulevard in Ogden. The buildings in Salt Lake City were renovated in 2016.

Other educational institutions include Stevens-Henager College and the DaVinci Academy of Science and the Arts.

traffic

• Cycle Path in Downtown Ogden, 2019

• Ogden Intermodal Transit Center, South East, 2015

• Union Pacific shunting operations, 2004

• Front Runner, 2007

• Modern Trolley (601) in Ogden, 2019

• Ogden Hinckley Airport, 2006

Ogden, like almost all cities in the United States, is designed to be used by motorized individuals. The use of footpaths is almost exclusively used to supplement vehicle traffic. A large part of the food supply is geared by drive-in, the parking spaces in front of shops such as supermarkets are also geared to this by their generous dimensioning, and even the banking operations can be operated entirely from the driver's seat through drive-in banking and drive-in ATMs. Ogden is connected to Interstate 15 in the north-south direction and to Interstate 80 and 84 in the east-west direction. Also in a north-south direction, the U.S. Highway 89 passes through Ogden, passes a short section as Washington Boulevard and joins south of the city back to the old U.S.-91, the current Utah State Route 26, to end up as Highway 89 further south. To the north, Utah State Route 39 Ogden connects to Woodruff. The Utah State Route 60 passes through Ogden, the Utah State Route 37 forms a kind of 270° outer ring around the Ogden-Clearfield metropolitan area.

On some roads in Ogden, bike lanes are marked. Repair stations for bicycles are publicly available at Weber State University. Some of the numerous hiking trails in Ogden's surroundings are also open for bicycles. The possibility to transport bicycles by public buses also gives a greater range.

Since 2006, several concepts for a downtown Ogden gondola system have been created on the Wasatch chain to reduce air pollution in the inner city, as in Colorado. Although only the gondola railway network in the Snowbasin would be extended by a route to the west, it has not gone beyond the planning phase. The length and extension of the cable car would be comparable to the Wings of Tatev in Armenia.

In Ogden a bus system operates with more than ten lines. There are several bus lines between Ogden Station and Weber State University (603, 650). Ogden and Salt Lake City (470) are connected by international buses in about two hours. The buses are basically equipped with the possibility to transport bicycles. For this purpose, fixtures are fitted on the front to allow up to three bicycles to be carried. In addition, an electrically operated folding ramp is installed at the front entrance door, which is extended for wheelchair users and pushchairs. There are parking spaces in the bus for up to three children’s carriages or wheelchairs.

An electric tram between Ogden and Huntsville was opened in July 1915, was operated until the construction of the Pineview Dams in 1937 and then dismantled. Since August 2019, a historic bus line (No. 601) has been simulating the former tramway.

The Promontory Summit is close to Ogden, where the railway companies Union Pacific (UP) and Central Pacific connected the railway networks to complete the first trans-continental railways in the USA in 1869. Today there is the Golden Spike National Historic Site. Although the two railway companies met at the Promontory Summit, Ogden was already in the construction phase of the transitional station between the two competing railway companies. Ogden was the most western railway station in the Union Pacific until the mid-1990s. In addition, there were lines of UP in north-south direction, such as the branch to the northwest (Portland/Tacoma) or the connection to San Francisco via Salt Lake City and Las Vegas, which all crossed Ogden and made the city one of the most important railway hubs in the western USA. During the peak of the use of the railways as a means of transport in the Second World War, more than 100 passenger trains were handled daily in Ogden. The main route of the Union Pacific between Chicago and California, which has operated exclusively by rail freight since 1971, remains through the town. Until 1971, the UP still operated passenger trains on its network, which were then taken over by the new national passenger transport company Amtrak. The most important train was the City of Los Angeles, a luxurious night trip between Los Angeles and Chicago, which ran from 1936 to 1971 via Ogden. The city of San Francisco also began a transcontinental night train service, reducing the journey time to northern California to 39 hours and 45 minutes. After 1971, only the Amtrak-operated San Francisco Zephyr between Chicago and Oakland remained the last Odgen passenger train until he was re-launched in 1983, under the former name of California Zephyr, on the southern route via Salt Lake City. After Amtrak's suspension of passenger traffic in 1983, it took until 2008, when the Utah Transit Authority's FrontRunner resumed scheduled operations in Ogden. Since then, the FrontRunner (UTA Route 750) Ogden has been connecting Ogden to Provo via Salt Lake City every hour from 7:55 to 0:55. The Ogden Intermodal Transit Center, located north of the historic Union Station, is a modern transport hub between the railways resurrected in 2008, the regional city bus lines and the interregional bus lines of Greyhound Lines.

Ogden has a medium-sized airport, Ogden-Hinckley Airport (IATA code: OGD), which has three asphalted runways (2470 m, 1583 m, 1103 m). In 2010, a total of more than 72,000 flights were recorded, an average of around 200 per day. In 2016, the number of passengers was approximately 32,000. Scenes of the film Con Air were shot at the airport. Another airport around Ogden is the federal Hill Air Force Base (IATA code: HIF), which is used exclusively for military purposes. A helicopter landing site (heliport) is located at the McKay-Dee Hospital Center (IATA code: UT16). The nearest international airport is Salt Lake City International Airport (SLC).

Sons and daughters of the city

The Osmonds with their stage show Kung Fu Fighting

The railway station is connected to many of the Junction City Ogden's personalities: Entrepreneurs like David Eccles and the Wattis brothers, but also Hollywood actors like Robert Walker, Moroni Olsen and Gedde Watanabe. Ogden is the home of the Osmonds, a teenage band from the 1970s whose family members - Merrill, Donny, Marie - made the city known to the rest of the world. The members of the arms-making family Browning - Jonathan Browning (1805-1879), John Moses Browning (1855-1926) or Val A are members of the Ogden-related personalities. Browning (1895-1994) - surely one of the best known. Tracy Hall (1919-2008), a chemist born in Ogden, is one of the first synthetic diamonds to be produced. The Alpinist Jeff Lowe (1950-2018) is known for over 1000 beginnings in the Rocky Mountains, the Alps and the Himalayas, and the businessman John Willard Marriott (1900-1985) founded the Marriott International hotel chain.

The city was home to several governors and deputy governors of the state of Utah: Herbert B. Maw (1893-1990) Governor 2009-2013, Greg Bell (* 1948) Deputy Governor 1993-2003 or Olene S. Walker (1930-2015) 2003 to 2005. Some representatives of the United States House of Representatives were also born in Ogden: Frederick C. Loofbourov (1874-1949), with headquarters in 71 and 72. Congress, M. Blaine Peterson (1906-1985) Representative of Utah in the US House of Representatives (1961-1932), from 1963 to 1971 Laurence J. Burton (1926-2002), from 1971 to 1981 K. Gunn McKay (1925-2000) and since 2017 John R., born in Ogden in 1960. Curtis. Brent Scowcroft (1925-2020) also served as military assistant Richard Nixon and later as National Security Adviser to Presidents Gerald Ford and George Bush Sen.

personalities who worked in the city

Born in Texas in 1919, the jazz musician Joe McQueen stranded in Ogden in 1945, when his tour manager lost the money from the band's cash in Las Vegas as a match. McQueen played with many jazz musicians who stopped during their Utah tours, such as Charlie Parker, Chet Baker, Paul Gonsalves, Lester Young, Count Basie, Duke Ellington and Dizzy Gillespie. At the age of 100, he also gave concerts. In 2002, the governor of Utah appointed 18 April to Joe McQueen day in honor of him. Anna Belle Weakley (1922-2008), as "Queen of 25th Street", led the Porters and Waiters Club and was known for her long-standing commitment to racism.

The USS Ogden (PF-39) was a Tacoma-class frigate in service from 1943 to 1945 and was dismantled in 1977. The USS Ogden (LPD-5), an amphibian Austin-class transport dock, was the second United States Navy ship named after Ogden, Utah. It was in service from 1965 to 2007 and was sinked as a target on 10 July 2014 during a maneuver.

Media reception

Majestic Mountain inspired by Mount Ben Lomond in the Paramount Pictures logo, 1914

According to some sources, the Paramount Pictures logo, known as "Majestic Mountain", has been designed along the lines of the Ben Lomond mountain near Ogden. The Ogden-born William W. Hodkinson, the founder of Paramount, is said to have sketched the picture on a napkin for the first time during a meeting in 1914. In 1939, Westernepos Union Pacific (German: "The woman belongs to me"), the story of the race of railway companies with the goal of Ogden is presented. The five seasons of the TV series Hell on Wheels, which will run from 2011 to 2016, will also be on the agenda. The story of the Hifi murders was the basis of the CBS Television Movies Aftermath, which was shot in 1991: A Test of Love with Richard Chamberlain and Michael Learned.

The city of Ogden itself was used as a backdrop after the IMDB in 141 films and series episodes so far. The following series have been and will be shot in Ogden. From 1994 to 2003, there were 212 episodes of A touch of heaven. From 2002 to 2006, 89 episodes were shot by Everwood and 85 episodes by Proper Manors between 2012 and 2016. He is currently shooting two series, since 2018 Kevin Costner has been shooting the episodes of Yellowstone here, and since 2018 he has been working on the Brothers series in Arms. A documentary of the history of Ogden, "Ogden: Junction City of the West" (duration:1:19:45), after a script by James Findlay, was premiered on April 25, 2007 in Peery’s Egyptian Theater. The following films were also made in Ogden:

The following books also used events in Ogden:

• Gary Children: Victim: The Other Side of Murder. Delacorte Press, 1982, ISBN 0385291051 (Roman on the Hifi murders in 1974).
• 1. Kay Gillespie: The Unforgiven: Utah's Executed Men. Signature Books, 1997, ISBN 1-56085-098-1 (Roman on the 1974 Hifi murders).
• Jennifer Jones: Ghosts of Ogden, Brigham City and Logan. Arcadia Publishing, 2017, ISBN 9781439662922.

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panoramic view over Ogden north towards Mount Ben Lomond, 2019

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Panoramic view over Ogden east from Antelope Island, 2019

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source expenditure

The Weber State University Archive has a number of historical sources, such as interviews with contemporary witnesses of the war prison camp in Ogden in the Second World War or historical figures and documents. The Library of Congress has about 1014 black and white and colored images. The New York Times' online archive also contains numerous articles about Ogden, Utah. The following works mainly contain historical photographs.

• Lillovely Falck: "Lest we forget": Our world was Heroes. Ogden 1927 (Register of Victims of World War I).
• Sarah Langsdon, John Sillito: Ogden. (Images of America: Utah) Arcadia Publishing, 2008, ISBN 978-0-738558790.
• Sarah Langsdon, Melissa Johnson: Lost Ogden. (Images of America: Utah) Arcadia Publishing, 2015, ISBN 978-1-4671-3339-5.
• Shalea Larsen, Sue Wilkerson: Ogden's Trolley District. (Images of America: Utah) Arcadia Publishing, 2012, ISBN 978-0-7385-9505-4.
• D. Boyd Crawford: History of Ogden, Utah in old post cards. Maury Grimm Publ., Ogden, UT, 1996, ISBN 978-0-9652685-0-9.
• Russell L. Porter: South Ogden. (Images of America: Utah) Charleston, S.C., Arcadia Publishing, 2012, ISBN 978-0-7385-8530-7.

• Michelle Braeden: The African American Community in Ogden, Utah: Teaching Local History Within a National Framework. 2016 (All Graduate Plan B and other Reports 874).
• Milton R. Hunter: Beneath Ben Lomond's peak: a history of Weber County 1824-1900. Deseret News Press, Salt Lake City 1944 (early depiction of the history of Ogden).
• J. Lucy Jordan, Stanley D. Smith, Paul C. Inkenbrandt, Mike Lowe, Christian L. Hardwick, Janae Wallace, Stefan M. Kirby, Jon K. King, Ethan E. Payne: Characterization of the Groundwater System in Ogden Valley, Weber County, Utah, with Emphasis on Groundwater-Surface-Water Interaction and the Groundwater Budget. (UTAH geological Survey, Special Study 165) Salt Lake City 2019 (pdf).
• J. David Larson, Union Pacific Railroad Co. (eds.): Ogden Canyon: Nature's Glory in the Rockies. Woodward & Tiernan Printing Co., 1913.
• Richard C. Roberts, Richard W. Sadler, Murray M. Moler: Ogden: Junction City. Windsor Publications, Northridge, Calif. 1985th
• Richard C. Roberts, Richard W. Sadler: A history of Weber County. Utah State Historical Society, Salt Lake City 1997, ISBN 0-913738-14-X (central representation of Ogden’s history).
• Don Strack: Ogden trails: a history of railroads in Ogden, Utah from 1869 to today. Produced in association with Golden Spike Chapter, Railway & Locomotive Historical Society, 1997.

cards

• Trails for foot, bike, horse in Weber County, hrsg. by Weber Pathways. Ogden 2018.
• Ogden, Layton, Bountiful, Davis co., Weber co. city street map (scale approximately 1:32,000), Burnaby BC, G. M. Johnson 2006 ISBN 1-897152-46-9.
• Max D. Crittenden, Martin L. Sorensen: Geologic map of the North Ogden quadrangle and part of the Ogden and Plain City quadrangles, Box Elder and Weber counties, Utah (scale: 1:24,000). Reston, Va: United States Geological Survey Corporation 1985.
• The card provider Ogden City Maps holds 20 cards.