Tom Taylor also homesteaded this ground before the Army built the road through to Fort Duchesne and the Uintah Basin in 1886.

A large barn housed the recuperating horses for the stage line and was noted for having a "real" sink.

The army installed steel telegraph poles in the Canyon around 1886, that were American Civil War surplus.

The first school house, built of logs by residents, sat in the mouth of Argyle Canyon.

The two-story Harper Hotel burned to the ground in the late 1980s or early 1990s; only the stone foundation remains now.