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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLJD_abraham-lincoln_Boise-ID.html
Gutzon Borglum, Sculptor of Mount RushmoreBorn: St. Charles, Idaho 1867Died: Chicago, Illinois 1941Copy executed by Irene Deely of Boise, Idaho 2009 "I have tried to give to posterity, in a true, unstudied picture, a glimpse of possibly the bes…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HML6H_basque-country_Boise-ID.html
Idaho has a large Basque community that preserves it's ancient European traditions in a new land of opportunity. Coming here originally to herd sheep on mountain and desert ranges, they shifted into other occupations as quickly as possible, mak…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF13_boise-state-university_Boise-ID.html
Expanding from a two-year community college (1932-1965) to a campus with a graduate program, Boise State was designated as a university in 1974. Originating as an Episcopalian academy founded in 1892, this institution was located a mile north o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF12_airmail-service_Boise-ID.html
U.S. commercial airline service began with a Varney Airlines flight from Pasco to Boise which landed here on April 6, 1926. Army planes had delivered airmail before that time. After Varney Airlines was merged with newer companies to become Unit…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEYX_beaver-dicks-ferry_Boise-ID.html
In 1863 and 1864, overland packers hauling supplies from Salt Lake City to Idaho City crossed here and took a direct route northward to More's Creek. They cut a steep grade from the Oregon Trail down to Beaver Dick's Ferry, which served a cross…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEYW_the-oregon-trail_Boise-ID.html
The Oregon Trail is still clearly visible coming off the rimrock across the river. Here the west bound emigrants after 1840 came gratefully down into this green valley. The first cart passed here with Spalding and Whitman, pioneer missionaries,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEY1_idaho-city_Boise-ID.html
This roaring metropolis was founding early in October, 1862, about ten weeks after gold was discovered in Boise basin. By the next summer, this was the largest city in the Northwest, with 6,275 people — 5,691 of them men! Families followe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEY0_grimes-creek_Boise-ID.html
Named for George Grimes who, with Moses Splawn, led the party which on August 2, 1862 made the strike that started the Boise basin gold rush. The party was searching for a rich basin described to Splawn a year earlier by an Indian. Farther up …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEXZ_the-old-toll-road_Boise-ID.html
The Old Toll Road to Idaho City crossed the ridge from Boise through the lowest point you can see in the skyline across the valley. Climbing the More's creek canyon wall, it crossed this highway about here and swung north. The road was built an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEXX_arrowrock-dam_Boise-ID.html
Higher than any other dam from 1915 until 1934, Arrowrock Dam still is an essential part of Boise Valley's irrigation system. Located six miles upstream from here, Arrowrock is 350 feet high and 1,150 feet wide. Built at a cost of $4,725,000 to…
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