Some communities celebrate a founder’s day, the date in which an individual located. It was on June 23, 1854, IsaacRoop  set up a trading post on the Noble’s Emigrant Trail. Shortly thereafter, along with his brother Ephraim they constructed a cabin. Roop’s trading post had a home. It is interesting to note that in August 1854 Roop filed the region’s first water right claim to Smith Creek, later to be called Piute. Who was Smith and why stream was designated such is still mystery.

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