The first settlers entered this valley on March 14, 1870, answering a call from the General Authorities of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Coming from St. Charles, Idaho, they included Randolph H. Stewart, Robert and Charles Pope, Edwin T. Pope, William Pearce, and others. One week later, on March 21, Apostle Charles C. Rich and company arrived, laid out the town with a rope used as a surveyors chain, and divided it into blocks of 10 acres with 8 lots in each. The town was named Randolph in honor of its first Bishop, Randolph H. Stewart. More settlers soon followed, including Levi O. Pead, William Howard Jr., Mrs. Agnes Smith, Samuel Henderson, Alfred C. and William Rex, John Cameron, Samuel Brough, William Tyson, and Archibald McKinnon Sr. They came in a spirit of hope, not seeking wealth, but answering a call and wanting a peaceful, progressive way of life. The town largely revolved around the church, and a log building first served as a place of worship, school house, and amusement center before an adobe building replaced it. By the spring of 1871, Randolph was thriving as settlers cleared sage, expanded prairie grasslands, surveyed and dug canals and ditches, and made use of abundant timber, water, grazing, fish, and game. A post office, store, blacksmith, and saw mill were soon established. In August, 1883, President John Taylor visited Randolph for a conference and blessed both the people and the land for their sustenance. Over the next century, sacrifice, hard work, and united effort produced the brick Tabernacle, while electricity, modern communications, transportation, machinery, and modern schools marked further progress. Other early family names included Brown, Corless, Evans, Gray, Gunn, Hatch, Hoffman, Jackson, Jacobson, Johnson, Jones, Kennedy, Muir, Nicholls, Norris, Peart, Smith, Snowball, South, Spencer, Telford, Wilson, and others. In 1970, the Randolph Centennial Celebration revived fond memories. Many people also answered missionary calls throughout the world and served in the military, with some giving their lives for freedom, while the town continued to value goodness, work, faith, and human compassion.