Historical Marker · No. 1080
Settlement of Neola
Neola, Duchesne County · Utah
Erected by DUP, 1951
Neola sits on land that was Ute reservation until 1905, when the federal government threw the Uintah Basin open to homesteaders. Mormon families from central Utah drew the parcels, first calling their townsite Packer, then in 1911 buying forty acres from a Ute man, Sam Ponowitz, and moving onto it for good. They took a Ute word for the name — Neola, 'move no more' — a plain wish for permanence after all the relocations. Poor soil and floods tested them. It endures today as a small farming and oil-patch community north of Roosevelt.
Where it stands
40.43288, -110.03113 · Directions
More markers nearby
- Northern Ute Veterans Memorial — 12 mi