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1 Escalante Desert	2 Escalante River	3 Kaiparowits Plateau	4 Dance Hall/40 Mile	5 Fifty Mile Spring
6 Hole-in-the-Rock	7 Cottonwood Canyon	8 Cottonwood Hill	9 The Chute	10 Gray Mesa
11 Slick Rocks	12 Death Valley	13 Lake Canyon	14 Castle Wash	15 Clay Hills
16 Dripping Spring	17 Grand Gulch	18 The Cedars	19 Salvation Knoll	20 Owl Creek
21 The Twist	22 Comb Wash	23 San Juan Hill	24 Bluff

				Site 24, Bluff On April 4, 1880, the advanced wagons reached the Bluff Valley. Bluff, Recapture Wash (six miles upstream, and Montezuma Fort (eighteen miles further upstream) were all sites set apart for the mission by scouts the previous year. Due to their exhausted state, combined with their desire to live together, most of the San Juan pioneers remained at Bluff. Upon their arrival, they immediately went to work on an irrigation system, followed by the construction of the Bluff Fort. Due primarily to irrigation challenges caused by the unruly San Juan River, Bluff was destined to remain small; but from their humble beginnings at Bluff, the San Juan pioneers branched out and established other communities such as Blanding and Monticello.
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	Bluff

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	Aerial - Bluff 1978		Site of the head of the Bluff ditch		Sun Bonnet Rock and the Twins		Portion of the Bluff ditch
	Bluff ditch		Grave marker of a Mackelprange child		Bluff Cemetery - Locomotive Rock in the background		Bluff Cemetery
	Bluff Cemetery

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Tuesday, April 6th, 1880. "Looked over the land and selected a site for a town and in the evening held meeting when a committee of 3 weas [sic] chosen to manage the work on the ditch which we will have to make, and another of 5 to lay off a field and a town, I being among the latter number."
Platte D. Lyman

Tuesday, April 13th, 1880. … "The valley is from ½ to 1 mile wide between the sandstone bluffs which rise 300 feet perpendicular, beyond these there are benches partly smooth and otherwise generally covered with grass and 40 miles to the north of us lay the blue mountains the nearest point at which we can reach saw timber."
Platte D. Lyman