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The Tuba Trading Post, in Tuba City, Arizona, is a building complex which was started in 1891 by trader Charles H. Algert as a two-room shed built of native limestone.It is a mostly stone building made up of segments of different styles. [2]
The Krenz-Kerley Trading Post, in Tuba City, Arizona, was built in 1915. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. [2] It is located at 78 N. Main St., on the east side of Main Street. [2] It is located "within the part of Tuba City that was a Mormon townsite from 1878 until 1903 (Judd 1965; Brugge 1972).
The Tuba City Trading Post was established in 1870. It dealt with the Navajo and Paiute who came to the area for the natural springs, as well as the Hopi already in the area. European-American Mormon emigrants claimed to found Tuba City in 1872. In 1956, uranium began to be mined near Tuba City.
Along its journey, the route connects the communities of Tuba City, Moenkopi, Rare Metals, Tonalea, Tsegi, Kayenta, Dennehotso, Mexican Water, Red Mesa, and Teec Nos Pos. Most of what is now US 160 was constructed as Navajo Route 1 between 1959 and 1962, and carried part of State Route 64 (SR 64) and the entirety of SR 364 between 1961 and 1965.
This section began southeast of Tuba City and ended at a junction with SR 64 in Tuba City proper. [8] By 1961, SR 264 from the SR 64 junction to a point 46 miles (74 kilometres) southeast of Tuba City had been paved. Later that year, SR 264 was extended east to the New Mexico border, ending at the beginning of New Mexico State Road 68 (NM 68). [9]
The San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe of Arizona is headquartered in Tuba City, Arizona. Their primary communities are two clusters, the southern area including Willow Springs, Hidden Springs, Rough Rock Point, Tuba City and Cow Springs. The northern area includes Paiute Canyon, Arizona and Navajo Mountain in Utah.
Ruins of a trading post near Shonto, Arizona. First built in 1891, the Tuba trading post as it appeared in 2020. A traditional Navajo hogan. The Navajo reservation was expanded over time to an area of 17,544,500 acres (71,000 km 2; 27,413 sq mi).
U.S. Route 160 (US 160) is a 1,465-mile-long (2,358 km) east–west United States Numbered Highway in the Midwestern and Western United States. The western terminus of the route is at US 89 five miles (8.0 km) west of Tuba City, Arizona.