Historic Markers
Historic markers installed on Kaysville and Fruit Heights trails, pathways, and sidewalks bring art and history to a different audience than traditional museum exhibits. The signs are designed to provide visual interest to the walking and hiking public with images of paintings and photographs illustrating historical places and events. Locations identified by the Kaysville – Fruit Heights Museum of History and Art in coordination with individual property owners and city administrations are placed to memorialize early individuals and locations key to the area’s development. QR codes will direct passersby to explore each event or location in more detail and relates how humans reacted or were impacted.
Stories include how a photograph by Major Andrew J. Russell of a local Bunting family gathering was used as 19th-century propaganda. Others tell of the Samuel Ward family’s encounter with the Shoshone and their brickyard, the establishment of the Raymond stagecoach station, how the Green Gas Station was central to the incorporation of a town, and when the Rock Loft cherry packing plant near Bair Canyon sustained orchards along the mountain, as well as the development of early water infrastructure by the Harvey family.
Paintings illustrative of Miles Goodyear’s horse drive, Osborne Russell’s exploration of the Wasatch Mountains near Kaysville, the circumnavigation of the Great Salt Lake by trappers, Peter Skene Ogden’s encounter with rival trappers, and overwintering by natives and trappers are shown.
Harvey Pond
Between 1863 and 1870, Daniel and Hannah Smuin Harvey acquired approximately 360 acres of mostly steep, rocky, brushy, and mostly dry property on the southeast corner of Kay’s Ward. The Harvey Family of east Kaysville, later Fruit Heights, homesteaded land on the southern end of the old mountain trail and…
Ward Orchards And Brickyard
After the Samuel Ward family established their first log home above Kaysville, they soon found that one group of Shoshone often traveled along a habitually used north-south trail that passed along on the lower mountain bench above the cabin. Ward made it a practice to…
Bair Canyon Enterprises
he Bair, Raymond, and Green pioneers gravitated to the land near the mouth of Bair Canyon. This canyon from which Haight’s Creek flows was later named after John Bair who built an early sawmill on its north bank. The water flowing from the mountain peak was a valuable natural resource for orchards and industry but also…
Harvey Pond
Between 1863 and 1870, Daniel and Hannah Smuin Harvey acquired approximately 360 acres of mostly steep, rocky, brushy, and mostly dry property on the southeast corner of Kay’s Ward. The Harvey Family of east Kaysville, later Fruit Heights, homesteaded land on the southern end of the old mountain trail and…
Ward Orchards And Brickyard
After the Samuel Ward family established their first log home above Kaysville, they soon found that one group of Shoshone often traveled along a habitually used north-south trail that passed along on the lower mountain bench above the cabin. Ward made it a practice to…
Bair Canyon Enterprises
he Bair, Raymond, and Green pioneers gravitated to the land near the mouth of Bair Canyon. This canyon from which Haight’s Creek flows was later named after John Bair who built an early sawmill on its north bank. The water flowing from the mountain peak was a valuable natural resource for orchards and industry but also…