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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2A3F_mount-idaho_Grangeville-ID.html
In 1862, a noted Western scout, Mose Milner, started Mount Idaho on his gold rush trail.
But when civic leaders resisted farm efforts to organize a grange there in 1874, Grangeville grew up as a better located town. Although Mount Idaho became c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2A2Z_the-advance-steam-traction-engine_Grangeville-ID.html
The steam engine before you saw many years of service to agriculture and lumbering here on the Camas Prairie at the turn of the 20th century.
In the 1920s the City of Grangeville used a steam engine like this with a roller in front instead of wh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2A2S_gathering-at-tipahxlee-whum-tepahlewam_Grangeville-ID.html
(Three panels outline the history of Tolo Lake)
The Nez Perce name for this lake is Tipahxlee'whum (Tepahlewam or Split Rocks). In early June 1877, five bands of Nimiipuu gathered here for their last taste of freedom before entering the Nez…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2A2Q_nimiipuu-cycle-of-life_Grangeville-ID.html
For thousands of years, Nimiipuu, or Nez Perce ancestors migrated between forest, river, and prairie environments, harvesting the resources as they came available with the passing seasons.
Seasonal Round
The Nimiipuu daily rhythms and cycle…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29ZZ_camas-prairie_Grangeville-ID.html
Named for the blue flowering camas — an important root food for all interior Northwestern Indians — Camas Prairie is a traditional Nez Perce cultural center. Tolo Lake — visible below — provided a campground for Joseph's …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28Y4_white-bird-grade_Grangeville-ID.html
For 60 years after construction was completed in 1915, White Bird Grade (Across the Valley) served Idaho's only north-south highway.
Many tortuous curves and switchbacks -which, if placed together, made 37 complete circles - let the old road cl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22MO_salmon-river_Grangeville-ID.html
Travel through the Salmon River Mountains always was hard in the early days.
An 1872 railroad survey showed the Salmon River Canyon to be too expensive a route to build.
Until a highway was finished down the White Bird Hill in 1921, only some pa…