Lake Point is located on the south shore of the Great Salt and is north of Tooele. Our community was originally settled in 1854 under the name of E.T. City, in honor of Ezra T. Benson. It was renamed Lake Point in 1923.

Pioneers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who settled in the Tooele Valley were organized on April 24, 1850 into a branch of the Church by Ezra T. Benson (John Rowberry was called as president of the branch).

By mid-1854, E. T. City had been established in the area. One of the first settlers, Peter Maughan, dismantled his log cabin in Tooele and moved it to the new settlement in August 1854. Others built small houses along the north-south road during the next three years. However, by 1857, a three-year string of crop failures had caused most of the population to move away. Maughan moved his family to Cache Valley.

The first meetinghouse of the LDS branch was built in 1857, a small log building with a rough board floor, dirt roof, and two windows.

The branch’s population was listed as 97 in 1868 (“and some gentile families”); by then the E.T. Irrigation Company had been formed, a canal delivered irrigation water from the Mill Pond, a regular mail run existed between E.T. City and Richville.