1907: When East Gentile Street opened

GENTILE Street, on the east side of Main Street to the Mountain Road didn’t exist for the first half century or so in Layton’s history.

Gentile Street originally only primarily traveled west from Main Street to the Bluff Road. But, there was a short section eastward that accessed the Ogden-Salt Lake Railroad station (about where I-15 is today) from Main Street.

According to the Intermountain Republican newspaper on Feb. 21, 1907, that was the year that residents lobbied the Davis County Commissioners to help build East Gentile Street to the Mountain Road.

An aerial view of Layton in the 1990s. East Gentile Street is the road between the two reservoirs.
                                  (Photo from the Heritage Museum of Layton's Collection.)

The Davis County Clipper newspaper of March 8, 1907 reported that Davis County budgeted $2,398.14 to finally open East Gentile Street.