This is the place for Mormon references in city names, but did you know Brigham City first was called Youngsville, and Goshen was Sodom?

Brigham City, Taylorsville, Snowville and Fielding are Utah cities named to honor early LDS Church presidents, from left, Brigham Young, John Taylor, Lorenzo Snow and Joseph F. Smith.

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