WARLENE
VALLEY, six miles
northeast of Hamilton, was
the location of the Leon River School
in whichMiss Ann Whitney was
teaching on 11 July, 1867, when the Indians attacked. Leon River
School was a private school in a crude log cabin on the south bank of
the Leon River on land which would
become the Durham
Ranch between CR 213 and CR 216. Miss Whitney was killed by the
Indians but helped her students escape. In 1867 this area was
called Warlene Valley.