Editing Uniontown, Washington (section)

==History==
[[File:Time out for watermelon, Uniontown, WA, circa 1910.jpg|thumb|left|Men enjoying watermelon in Uniontown, circa 1910]]
Uniontown was first settled in 1867 by Thomas Freeborn Montgomery, who had travelled west in order to escape the violence of the [[American Civil War]] in 1863.<ref name=majors>{{cite web|title=Uniontown, Washington Official Website|url=https://uniontownwa.org/our-town/history|publisher=Town of Uniontown, Washington|access-date=April 22, 2023}}</ref> Montgomery filed for a homestead claim in 1874, and obtained a post office for Uniontown in 1878. Agreement could not be reached on a town name until the following year, when [[Joseph Cataldo]], a [[Jesuit]] priest and missionary, suggested the name "Uniontown" after the similarly-named creek and flat nearby.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Phillips |first=James Wendell |url=https://archive.org/details/washingtonstatep00phil/page/149/mode/2up?q=uniontown |title=Washington State Place Names |publisher=[[University of Washington Press]] |year=1971 |location=Seattle |pages=149 |quote=Controversy over a suitable town name in 1879 was settled by Father Joseph Cataldo, S.J., who suggested the present title, as the community was a junction point of creeks and roads and because a Union Creek and a Union Flat already existed in the area.}}</ref> Montgomery had a difficult personality, which led to numerous conflicts with Uniontown businessmen. As a result, several of these businesses relocated three miles north to the neighboring rival town of [[Colton, WA|Colton]]. Despite this, Montgomery remained active in the real estate industry in Uniontown until his passing in 1883, which was allegedly the result of a dispute that turned deadly on December 8 of that year. Uniontown was incorporated in 1890.