In August 1848, ten men with a mule pack train under Samuel Hensley pioneered a trail near California Road at the Idaho-Utah border. Traveling the Humboldt River, Hensley met a wagon train of discharged Mormon Battalion members and gave them directions, and they then hacked out a wagon road over Hensley’s Trail to Great Salt Lake City, establishing the Hensley-Salt Lake Cutoff. In the fall of 1848, Hector C. Haight moved his family to a stream in West Kaysville later known as Haight’s Creek, where a fine grove of trees on the flood plain provided shade and shelter. This natural resting place on the trail, known as Blooming Grove, comforted thousands of travelers on their way to California. Hector Haight eventually offered hotel accommodations and blacksmith services for travelers on the trail. An estimated one-third of all immigrants responding to the California Gold Rush came along this route in the years 1849-1854. Following the bluff through Kaysville to Layton and points north, the trail saw thousands of wagons making their way to join the California Road at the City of Rocks in southern Idaho.