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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22XT_goodales-cutoff_Hill-City-ID.html
An old emigrant road headed west across Camas Prairie and then descended to the valley below on its way to rejoin the Oregon Trail 28 miles west of here.
This route, discovered by Donald Mackenzie's fur trade party in 1820, came into use for emi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22XP_toll-gate_Mountain-Home-ID.html
An 1868 Toll Road to Rocky Bar provided better access to early gold mines 40 miles north of here.
Julius Newberg's South Boise wagon road had reached Rocky Bar in 1864, but a route through this canyon was needed to avoid steep Syrup Creek grade…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22XO_main-oregon-trail-back-country-byway_Mountain-Home-ID.html
Friday September 10th "... Traveled along the foot of the mountains about 5 miles to another creek and stopped for the night. Plenty of dry bunchgrass. No timber, but willow and sage. Found eight graves here. Made fifteen miles." Parthenia Blank,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22XN_mountain-home-irrigation-district_Mountain-Home-ID.html
The Town site of Mountain Home was chosen by the Union Pacific Railroad as a stop because of a readily available supply of water. The railroad utilized steam operated pumps in trench wells to fill storage tanks with this water in order to supply t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22XL_mountain-home-arrives-in-a-50-pound-soapbox_Mountain-Home-ID.html
Eight miles east of here, Rattlesnake Station, was an important stop for wagon trains and travelers along the Oregon Trail because of its sure supply of fresh water. Later, a stage station with a post office called "The Mountain Home" was establis…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22XH_gold-mines_Hill-City-ID.html
More than a century ago, Rocky Bar, Happy Camp, and a number of other South Boise mining towns flourished in a remote mountain wilderness 30 miles northwest of here.
Discovered early in 1863, they were so hard to get to that the could not be wo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22XE_castle-rock_King-Hill-ID.html
Up toward Camas Prairie, a road goes by Castle Rock and other eroded granite outcrops that were landmarks on Goodale's Cutoff, an Oregon Trail route that came this way.
Emigrants generally had not seen large granite rock formations of this kind,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C3Q_rattlesnake-station_Mountain-Home-ID.html
At the junction of the Rocky Bar Road with the Oregon Trail, this was a major stage line stop for 20 years.
Stage service commenced in 1864, and a road to the Rocky Bar mines was opened 2 months later. In 1878 the station owners thought it woul…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HML6G_to-all-pioneers_Glenns-Ferry-ID.html
To all pioneers who crossed over Three Island Crossing and helped to win the west.Erected 1931by Troop One Boy Scouts of AmericaRoslyn, New YorkScoutmaster E.K. Pietsch
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HML6F_glenns-ferry_Glenns-Ferry-ID.html
After the golden spike was driven at Promontory Utah in 1869 the nearest railroad station to Boise was Kelton on the north shore of the Great Salt Lake. A ferry was built 1/2 mile up on the river as a joint effort by Gustavus Glenn, a local ranche…