Shiprock’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 2 old photos of Shiprock. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Shiprock was founded on September 11, 1903, by San Juan Agency superintendent William Taylor Shelton after being assigned to the northern Navajo by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. A former U.S. government instructor in agriculture at the Cherokee School in Yellow Hill, North Carolina (now Cherokee, NC), Shelton had moved up through BIA ranks to be given the appointment to open an Indian agency and boarding school. He founded Shiprock Indian School and administrative agency with a staff of three white and three Navajo employees. Shiprock Indian Boarding School remained until the American Indian boarding school system was phased out in the early 1980s.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Shiprock’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Shiprock’s history is told.
2 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewNear the base of Old Shiprock, 1914: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Shiprock, decade by decade
1960s
1990s
1 historic place in Shiprock
1 place in Shiprock is on the National Register of Historic Places, the country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
Where they are
When they were listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Near the base of Old Shiprock (1914) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (5) and the Library of Congress (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.