The Joseph "Cap" Hill cabin, one of the oldest pioneer buildings in Davis County, was built by Joseph Hill Sr. and his family between 1851 and 1854 in what is now West Layton, on the west side of Angel Street, after Joseph and his wife, Edith Ann Marsden Hill, had immigrated from Gloucestershire, England, joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, lived for a time in Nauvoo, Illinois, and moved to Utah Territory in September 1850 with their three children, John C., Joseph Jr., and Alice Ann. During the journey across the plains, Joseph served as a captain of 10 wagons under Mathew Caldwell, a captain of 50, and thereafter became widely known as "Cap" or "Captain." After settling in Kay's Ward, later Kaysville, the family established a homestead and farmed hay, grain crops, and cattle. In the late 1850s, Joseph briefly moved his family to Sacramento, California, hoping to seek fortune in the gold fields, but they returned to Utah in 1862; while passing through Carson City, Nevada, Edith Ann was critically injured in a wagon accident and died on July 4, 1862. After burying his wife, Joseph returned to Kay's Ward and lived again in the cabin until his death on August 21, 1889, after which he was buried in the Kaysville City Cemetery. The cabin remained in the Hill family for more than five generations, was later used for various purposes and fell into disrepair, then passed to Joseph Sr.'s second great-granddaughter, Odessa Webster Hill Harris, and her husband, Robert Jay Harris, who restored it in 1990. After building a home next to the cabin in 2000 and caring for the property until their deaths in 2017, their children deeded the cabin to the Heritage Museum of Layton, and after standing 161 years on its original site, it was moved in 2017 to Layton Commons Park.