BLUFF Road is a prominent north-south corridor road in west Davis County today.
The highway traverses through Syracuse on the south and proceeds into West Point and Clinton.
However, in 1926-1927, during the decade when automobiles began to become popular, the road was gated shut.
According to the Weekly Reflex newspaper of Bountiful on March 11, 1926, Thomas Sessions from Syracuse appeared before the Davis County Commission to complain that despite being "a public road -- the old Bluff road -- was closed by a gate having been built across the road."
The Commission referred to the matter to the Davis County Attorney, with instructions to have the road opened to the public.
The next time this issue came up in any newspaper, it was some 19 months later, in the Dec. 22, 1927 Weekly Reflex. This article stated that Lawrence Corbridge constructed the gate across Bluff Road.
O.W. Willey of Syracuse objected to the road being closed, it blocking access to some of his property. The County Commissioners ordered the road to be county property and that the gate can be opened at any time.
The Bluff Road was one of the key pioneer trails in Davis County in the 19th Century.
The monument to Bluff Road's pioneer legacy.
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