In 1854-55, pioneers settling what is now Layton, Utah, established a square fort on Little Fort Lane, a road that ran from Five Points north to Little Fort and joined the Kays Creek roads from the east. Families including Billa Dickson, John Green, William Lindsey, Mark and Pratt Whitesides, and the Shipley and Croft families lived in the Little Fort, which took its name because a larger fort had already been established in the center of Kaysville. Built on the south bank of Kays Creek overlooking the sandridge road from Morris Town Hill, it was intended to protect settlers from Indians and served mainly as a lookout point on the Indian camp area, while friendly Indians lived along the hollow. The fort's houses formed the outside walls, built of rock, dried mud, and mortar, and vegetable gardens in the center court provided necessary food and continued to be tended for several years after the fort was abandoned. One moved cabin from Little Fort, a single-room structure with saddle-notched construction, can still be found at 400 North Fort Lane near Layton High School.