Pioneer home of Samuel Ashton and his wife Mary. It was located on the mountain road just one-half mile north of Bair Canyon, in Fruit Heights. Their house was the center of activities for friends and relatives. It was one large room with a rag carpet covering the floor. Between the door and the window was a wash bench holding a water bucket...
William & Ellen Bone’s first home had a roof made of boughs with sod over them and a dirt floor, but they stayed there just a short time. In 1865 William built a four-room brick home with one large attic room, at 161 North Main Street. He also built a small shop on the south-east corner of the property where he plied his trade as a shoemaker.
William Allen was an active architect of Utah, from the 1870s when he acquired the property this house sits on until at least 1918. William Allen's architectural style was very distinctive. The small brick building in the back was his studio where he drew the plans and specifications for many of the best buildings in Davis County, including his own home.
In 1898, prominent Kaysville businessman and civic leader, Hyrum Stewart, hired William Allen to design and build a family home. Construction started in the summer of 1898. The architectural style of the home is Colonial Renaissance, and the treatment of both exterior and interior is simple, dignified and elegant. Home is built of Ward Brick.
Located at 1 North Main, Kaysville, Utah Barnes Bank's first building was built in 1870. The Co-op (co-operative) is on the left and the bank is the little white building on the right. This...
Was located at 200 North and Fairfield, Kaysville, Utah The Clover Club Foods Company was started in 1938, in the kitchen of Clover Sanders. It grew rapidly to become a large commercial...
The Bamberger Railroad got its start in 1891 as the Great Salt Lake & Hot Springs Railway. It was built by Simon Bamberger, a prominent Utah businessman and the fourth Governor of Utah (1917-1921). The end of the track remained at Lagoon from 1896 through 1902, when construction resumed, service to Kaysville was completed May 30, 1906. However, the depot was not finished until the fall of 1920.
Located on Main Street, Kaysville, Utah The historic rock building located mid block in downtown Kaysville is a central reference point for the history of public libraries, city halls, public...
Davis County High School Site Selection by Bill Sanders In 1911, the school system in Davis County was consolidated into a single district with the Davis County Board of Education as its...
...Many Davis County residents owned LeConte Stewart paintings, but as his national popularity grew it became more and more difficult for local citizens to appreciate his artistic talents. Consequently, in October of 1969, the Kaysville Community Art League was formed to work on establishing an art gallery in LeConte’s honor. They envisioned a gallery that would display some of his best Kaysville and Davis County landscape scenes...