Whiterocks’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 5 old photos of Whiterocks. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗1828 Four French traders from Kentucky -- William "Toopeechee" Reed, Jim Reed, Dennis Julien, and Augustus Archambeaux -- entered the Uintah Basin and set up a trading post near a spring of water just south and east of the present settlement of Whiterocks. The site was at a junction of trails used by the local Ute people. They brought in the first butcher knives, coffee beans, and other articles traded to the locals for fur. Antoine Robidoux (or Rubidoux) purchased the enterprise in 1832 and built a larger "fort" just east of the post named Fort Robidoux (or Fort Uinta). In 1844, Utes burned the trading post to the ground and it was not rebuilt.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Whiterocks’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Whiterocks’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo4 archive items have no date+2 🔁Retake an old view1940 Census Enumeration District …, 1850: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people close to Whiterocks
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Whiterocks, decade by decade
Nothing in Whiterocks is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Whiterocks has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Wong Sing Warehouse in Fort Duchesne, 12.4 miles away.
Whiterocks and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as 1940 Census Enumeration District Descriptions - Utah - Uintah County - ED 24-9, ED 24-10, ED 24-11, ED 24-12, ED 24-13,… (1850) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (1) and the Library of Congress (4). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.