Reardan

Reardan is the first town reached after Deep Creek. Before Reardan was established, the first post office in the area was located on the Fort Colville Road. This was at J. S. Capps place and his ranch was about a mile north of the present town. On September 23, 1882, William F. Hooker and John W. Still platted a town and called it Fairweather. The little town had a store, hotel and blacksmith shop.

When the railroad came through Fairweather in 1889, the town began to boom. Not long after, the post office was moved from Capps place to Fairweather. The government continued to call the post office Capps. The depot station at Fairweather was named Reardan by the railroad, in honor of the Engineer of Construction, C. F. Reardan. After a short period the town adopted the name of Reardan.

During the fall of 1903, the citizens subscribed $5000 and built a wagon road to the falls on the Spokane River north of Reardan and then to the Cedar Canyon mines in Stevens County. The road enabled Reardan to supply the miners who would have done business in Davenport or Springdale.