![]() But the lack of City Hall formalities does not mean that there were not good people in the area that would become West Valley City for over a hundred years before incorporation. ![]() Incorporated in 1980, the city does not have the deep civic traditions of older Utah communities like Ogden, Salt Lake City or Provo. ![]() West Valley City, despite being Utah’s second largest city, is a relatively young city. "Over Jordan" & the Evolution of a Community Such prophesies would have seemed far fetched in the mid-nineteenth century, or even the mid-twentieth century, but at the dawn of the twenty-first century the half of the valley west of the Jordan River is indeed filling with people, activity, and commerce. During this period of settlement Brigham Young, the Mormon prophet, declared that someday there would be more inhabitants on the west side of the Jordan River than on the east, and told his friend William Armstrong that "the day will come when there will be large places of manufacture and storage constructed west of the Jordan River and there will be over three millions of people living there and Jordan River will practically run through the center of Salt Lake City." Historical records indicate that when the Mormon Pioneers arrived in the Salt Lake valley centuries later, there was a Ute and Shoshone presence in the area that would later become West Valley City. Additionally, the discovery of materials indicative of stone tools suggests that another Archaic campsite was established near SR-2 West. Materials found at approximately 7200 W and 3500 S are believed to have been used in a temporary camp during the Archaic Phase. Prehistoric Communities & Pioneer SettlementĪrchaeological records indicate that as many as 3,000 years ago, the area now known as West Valley City was inhabited by tribal communities.
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