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Home > Feature Links > City Boards & Commissions > Cultural Arts Board > Historical Society/WVC History > History 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.” Such prophesies would have seemed far fetch 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. West Valley City, despite being Utah’s second largest city, is a relatively young city. Incorporated in 1980, the city does not have the deep civic tr...