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NAME: Algert COUNTY: Coconino ROADS: 2WD LEGAL INFO: T32N, R13E CLIMATE: Cool winter, Hot Summer BEST TIME TO VISIT: Winter, Spring, Fall |
COMMENTS:
Not a whole lot left. REMAINS: There are the walls of some of the school buildings still standing, as well as some of the walls of the trading post itself. |
| Began its existence as the Blue Canyon Trading Post, opened in 1882 by Jonathan P Williams, an unsuccessful prospector who decided to become a trader instead. He gave it up in 1889, and it was taken over by the federal government's Indian Service, which started an agency and a school there in 1900. C.H. Algert, another trader, built an extension on the government buildings, but also gave up shortly thereafter. While there, he managed to get the Post Office Department to open a facility there in 1900, and name it after him. It closed in 1903 when the federal government's BIA moved all its operations, including the school, to Tuba City. A Hubert Richardson then took over the post and its buildings; he ceased operations in 1921. Submitted by: Kurt Wenner |
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