Lake Point, Utah
| Lake Point | |
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| Unincorporated community | |
 Lake Point
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| Coordinates: 40°40′51″N 112°15′47″W / 40.68083°N 112.26306°WCoordinates: 40°40′51″N 112°15′47″W / 40.68083°N 112.26306°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Utah |
| County | Tooele |
| Settled | 1854 |
| Elevation | 4,249 ft (1,295 m) |
| Time zone | Mountain (MST) (UTC-7) |
| • Summer (DST) | MDT (UTC-6) |
| zip code | 84074 |
| Area code(s) | 801 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1429437 |
Lake Point is an unincorporated community in Tooele County, Utah, United States. Lake Point is located on the south shore of the Great Salt Lake and is served by Interstate 80. Lake Point is north of Tooele, Utah. The community was originally settled in 1854 under the name of E.T. City, in honor of Ezra T. Benson. It was renamed Lake Point in 1923.
Lake Point sits on a passageway, a narrow strip of land between the sharply towering Oquirrh Mountains to the southeast, and the waters of the Great Salt Lake on the north. Early explorers, indigenous groups, and California-bound trekkers followed this route. The Gushute Indian Tribe used the Tooele Valley for their yearly rendezvous.
The US Army sent Captain Howard Stansbury to the area in 1849 to evaluate emigration trails and scout for possible passages for a transcontinental railroad. He had a small adobe house built near a prominent rock outcropping in the southwest part of the area, for the use of his herders who cared for his expedition's livestock; in subsequent years the rocks became known as "Adobe Rock".
Pioneer Mormons who settled in the Tooele Valley were organized on 24 April 1850 into a branch of the church by Ezra T. Benson (John Rowberry was called as president of the branch).
By mid-1854, E. T. City had been established in the area. One of the first settlers, Peter Maughan, dismantled his log cabin in Tooele and moved it to the new settlement in August 1854. Others built small houses along the north-south road during the next three years. However, by 1857, a three-year string of crop failures had caused most of the population to move away. Maughan moved his family to Cache Valley.
The first meetinghouse of the LDS branch was built in 1857, a small log building with a rough board floor, dirt roof, and two windows.
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