Kuna City Hall history

The early town consisted of at least three warehouses, a depot, and a post office, which was established in 1884.

After the branch line from Nampa to Boise was completed in 1887, the need for a depot at Kuna was over.

When the United States Reclamation Service was established in 1902, their planned project sites included the Boise Valley.

The Teeds re-established the post office on July 21, 1905, and that same year the town site was opened.

In 1907, Teed and his brother-in-law D.R. Hubbard filed adjacent land claims, platting the area as orchard tracts.

By the fall of 1908, the community of Kuna had enough school-age children to open its own school.

On February 22, 1909, the first water was let into the New York Canal at Diversion Dam east of Boise.

During the summer of 1910, the first school building was erected for $7,000.

The first service of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was held on March 12, 1911.

A permanent train depot building was built in 1913, replacing an old boxcar used for a waiting room that had gradually been torn apart for firewood by people waiting for trains.

Kuna's first regular newspaper, the Kuna Herald, went to press on November 19, 1914, with Charles H. Shepherd the editor and publisher.

The excavation for the Baptist Church started on May 24, 1915.

In 1918, and for the next five or six summers, Kuna hosted the Chautauqua Program, a traveling variety show from the town of Chautauqua in upstate New York with singers, lecturers, and other performers.

The Church of Christ and the Nazarene Church were formed in 1923.

Kuna High School was built in 1924.