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West Valley City celebrates its 20th birthday with friends from the sister city Nantou, Taiwan. The City opens a 96,000-square-foot public fitness center. The City dedicates the Hale Centre Theatre at Harman Hall. The City opens the 10,500-seat E Center (now Maverik Center), which will be used for concerts, sporting events, the 2002 Winter Olympics and as the home of the Utah Grizzlies. Mike Leavitt declares West Valley City a 'first-class city,' with over 100,000 residents.Ĭity leaders lure the Denver Grizzlies hockey team to relocate to West Valley City by building a hockey arena for the 2002 Winter Olympics. Granger, Hunter and Redwood residents vote to incorporate and become West Valley City.

Hunter replaces West Jordan as the Salt Lake Valley’s fastest growing community. Industrial growth caused by World War II increases the population of the Granger, Hunter and Chesterfield areas. The group spends the winter in dugouts cut into river-bottom bluffs and in the spring moves to present day Taylorsville.ģ500 South becomes Granger’s first paved street. Joseph Harker and a handful of Mormon settlers cross the Jordan River near today’s 3300 South. Historical records indicate that there was a Ute and Shoshone presence in the area west of the Jordan River, including what is now West Valley City, prior to Pioneer Settlement. 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 West and 3500 South are believed to have been used in a temporary camp during the Archaic Phase. Archaeological records indicate that the area now known as West Valley City was inhabited by tribal communities.

The secret society west valley city utah