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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.
The first contract for the construction of N1 past Tuba City was awarded by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) on July 3, 1959 to the C.R. Davis Contracting Company based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The contracted stipulated C.R. Davis would construct 9 miles (14 kilometres) of highway northeast of Tuba City at a total cost of $393,202.
Moenkopi (Hopi: Mùnqapi, Navajo: Oozéí Hayázhí) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Coconino County, Arizona, United States, adjacent to the southeast side of Tuba City off U.S. Route 160. The population was 964 at the 2010 census .
While the community includes not much more than a trading post, a gas station, a school, and a tribal administrative building, in an addition to few homes, it is important as the only place were services are offered along the 80-mile (130 km) stretch of US 89 between Cameron and Page. However, it became more significant in February 2013 when a ...
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]
[3] [4] [5] The Gray Mountain Trading Post was first opened in 1935, and weathered a major fire in 1981. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The Gray Mountain Motel burned down in 1989; Gray Mountain had no fire department, and the limited response from nearby fire departments raised concerns about rural firefighting in Arizona.