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English
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Tuba City, Mormon Settlement
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Journal of Arizona History
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Spring 1969
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10
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37-42
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The Mormon leader Jacob Hamblin founded Tuba City, to the north and slightly to the east of Flagstaff. In 1875 Chief Tuba of the Hopi tribe, in gratitude for help extended in irrigating his tribe's farms, gave Hamblin the townsite complete with a running spring. Soon Mormons from Utah joined Hamblin and Tuba City became a favorite stopping place for travelers. Fields were planted; with the help of an extensive irrigation system, field crops and fruit trees grew. In January 1900 the Federal Government decided to erect a Navajo training school on the site. Negotiations went on for the next two years; by 31 December 1902 all settlers signed quitclaim deeds in exchange for a total of 48 thousand dollars for their lands and improvements. Today only tall boundary poplars remind one of the early settlement. Based on original records and secondary accounts; map, 7 notes. (R. J. Roske)