Aeneas Valley is named for an Okanogan Indian chief who settled here in 1863 with his family and livestock, forsaking his ancestral lands and chiefly role in the forested region west of the Okanogan River. Aeneas could not control young men under him who wanted to kill invading white miners and settlers, yet he knew their course was futile. Chief Aeneas lived on his ranch until his death in about 1905.

Chief Aenas

Aneas post office in 1908