Jericho settlement began in 1864 when Charles Green, John Pine, Daniel Brown, and a Mr. Hill arrived from Sanpete. Although the valley had fertile soil and water from the Sevier River, the site was abandoned in 1865 because of Indian trouble. Ephraim Van Wagner, Widow Jacobina Rhoads, William Powell, Amos Davis, and a Mr. Anderson came in the winter of 1871, but again the families left in June of 1872 because of Indians and went to larger settlements. Several families returned on September 10, 1872, with Stake President Joseph A. Young, son of Brigham Young, who laid out the townsite for the present town of Joseph from the survey of Iver Isaacson and named it Joseph City in honor of himself. The first leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Joseph were James Hale, George Wilson, and Iver Isaacson, and Mrs. Alonzo Farnsworth, Mary, was the first school teacher, teaching pupils from four to twelve years old. A two-room brick schoolhouse was started in 1894 and served until 1904, when a two-story, four-room addition was built, and the building was used until 1955. The pioneer log cabin stood on the original 160 acres homesteaded by David A. Giles on March 13, 1881, across the Sevier River east of the present town of Joseph; it was later donated by Mrs. Reta Owens Meacham in the fall of 1992 and relocated in 1994.