Local native volunteers and craftsmen began building St. John's in 1903 using red cedar milled three miles south of town in Saxman. In 1898, St. Agnes Mission was built in what is now St. John's parking lot. That native school was operated for almost 25 years before being turned over to the Office of Indian Affairs.

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