EARLY DUCHESNE SETTLEMENT

Explorers, trappers and traders, were here before Brigham Young sent a group in 1861 to prepare the way for Mormon colonization, but in October 1861 the U.S. government set apart Uintah Valley for an Indian Reservation. In 1905 a portion was opened for white settlement. June 6, 1905, A.M. Murdick, Daughter Dora, and Sugoosie Jack (Indian) with 52 men organized a town called Dora, later Theodore, then Duchesne. This bell was used for school, church, curfew, and as fire alarm for many years

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Father Escalante

In commemoration of the Catholic priest, Father Escalante, who in 1776 came into Utah. He crossed the Green River at Jensen and camped two days at that place. His diary shows that he camped at the junction of the Strawberry and Duchesne Rivers one night and then travelled northwest, up through what he called “The Canyon of the Swallows.” This is the canyon in which Ivie’s Ranch is now located. This became an important intersection in pioneer days, as distances were reckoned from this point.

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