Wetherill Family

The Wetherill family first arrived in the Colorado Plateau region in 1880, when Benjamin and Marion Wetherill moved their family to a homestead in the region. For the next several years, members of the family operated trading posts throughout the Colorado Plateau in Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico. Some Wetherills are also credited with archaeological and exploratory activity in the area, including the discovery of Rainbow Bridge.

Benjamin Kite Wetherill (1832-1898) married Marion Thompson in 1856, and together they had Richard (1858-1910), Benjamin Alfred “Al” (1861-1950), Clayton [1861-1921], Anna (1865- 1935), John (1866-1944), Winslow [1870-1939], and Alice (birth date unknown, died in infancy). B.K. Wetherill relocated to Colorado in 1879, began homesteading near the Mancos River in Colorado in 1880, and was joined by the rest of the family the following year. In 1882, the family began construction of a log house, which would be called the Alamo Ranch.

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