A group of Mormon pioneers settled the area now known as Lehi in the fall of 1850 at a place called Dry Creek in the northernmost part of Utah Valley.

It was renamed Evansville in 1851 after David Evans, a local bishop in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

The legislature also approved a request to call the new city Lehi, after a Book of Mormon prophet of the same name.

This first started with the lengthy construction of a DRAM microchip plant by Micron Technology, which eventually evolved into a NAND flash memory business called IM Flash Technologies that was founded by both Micron and the Intel Corporation with headquarters in Lehi.

The 23-acre campus houses a 40-bed, full-service facility with an emergency department, intensive care unit, medical imaging, cardiac lab, surgical suites, and labor and delivery.

[18] Vivint operates a five-story office building in Lehi where the majority of its engineering work takes place.

[21] Other Thanksgiving Park tenants are Oracle Corporation, Infusionsoft, Workfront, Vivint Solar, Agel Enterprises, DigiCert, Jolt and ProPay Inc.[22] Pyramid Schemes XanGo, Young Living, Younique, Nature's Sunshine Products also have offices in Lehi.

[citation needed] Fixed wireless internet service provider (ISP) WeLink is based in Lehi.

[citation needed] Lehi Roller Mills was featured in the 1984 film Footloose as Ren McCormack's workplace and as the site of the dance.

The complex is a 501(c)(3) organization with operations funded by private donations, venue and event admissions, and profits from shops and restaurants.

The museum later moved its current location in the Veteran Memorial Building at 55 N Center St, Lehi, UT.

[31] The Hutchings Museum's exhibits include a large range of displays and artifacts featuring Native American culture, geology and paleontology, ornithology, live animals, and both local city and regional history.

[32] Some of the Museum's most notable artifacts include a gun that reportedly belonged to Butch Cassidy, a large collection of rocks and minerals, and several pieces of Native American pottery.

MTECH serves high school seniors via dual enrollment, and adult students at the Lehi location, offering programs of study in automotive, culinary arts, healthcare, information technology and a growing number of other industry and technical programs.

Work on the FrontRunner South commuter rail began in August 2008, and the Lehi station opened for service on December 12, 2012.