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For eleven years the mission and the people prospered, then came the murder of Dr. Whitman and the general suspension of all philanthropic efforts for a term of years.

The Treaty of 1863 provided for the building of a church at Lapwai and the people abandoned the stone structure they were working upon and the Government built with tribal money a church upon the site occupied by the present church.  The old mission site of Mr Spalding had been taken possession of by the Agency and the land cultivated by Government employees.

About ten years ago Mr Deffenbaugh the Missionary under the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions built a dwelling near the Agent's house and beside the "mess-house" where employees lived.  All the houses at the agency were more or less huddled together as land was limited, the valley narrows at this point and every acre was needed for the Agency and School.  The Indian houses stretched south, up the creek, or along the banks of the Clearwater to the west.  The Missionary's house was built with private funds