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Show 121 1909 1909 1910 1910 1910 1910 1910 1910 1910 1910- 1916 1911 1911 1911 1911 1911 1912 office here is discontinued in 1960. Townsite of Tabby is plotted on Indian allotment purchased by settlers who had come into area in 1905. In 1915 the post office and town were renamed Tabiona. By right of " eminent domain," the Strawberry Valley Reclamation Project appropriates 56,000 acres of Ute Indian land. Public school is built at Maeser. Replaces older brick buildings. Fee patent policy instigated by U. S. Indian Service which makes it possible for non- Indians to buy up Ute allotments. Duchesne LDS Stake is seperated from Uintah Stake. Bridge is built at Myton. St. Paul's Episcopal Church is built in Vernal. Uintah State Bank organized at Vernal. Fire, fed by gilsonite, sweeps through Dragon. About 25 miles of wagon roads built for Strawberry Valley Reclamation Project. First bridge is built at Jensen. Replaced by another bridge in 1933. Post office is established at Winn, later ( 1914) called Talmage. The post office is discontinued in 1975. Theodore is renamed Duchesne. Leeton townsite is filed by settler Henry Lee who establishes a trading post here and a post office ( discontinued 1928). Watson established as railhead for Uintah Railroad. Named for Wallace Watson the engineer who located and constructed the line from Dragon to Rainbow. Watson is abandoned in 1934. Neola townsite is surveyed on land purchased from a Ute. Non- Utes had first settled in area ( Packer) in 1906. Lime Kiln is built 15 miles north. Post office established in 1914. 1912 Altonah townsite is designated and named by William |