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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BLM_lewis-and-clark-departure-camp_Carmen-ID.html
Leading packhorses, the Lewis and Clark Expedition followed their Shoshone guide Toby up Tower Creek on August 31, 1805. The Indian road went northwest from here across the foothills to the North Fork of the Salmon.
Behind the Corps of Discovery…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BLK_william-clarks-pirimids_Carmen-ID.html
Clark's "Pirimids" are lessons in erosion and deposition. Looks closely at the columns to see layers of sediment: sandstone, gravel, and larger rocks that were eroded from ancient hills and deposited in valleys millions of years ago. Time and pres…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BLH_erle-and-lula-embleys-cabin_Carmen-ID.html
This cabin was built by Erle Embley. Erle was born in 1885 and raised in Michigan. He came to the Tower Creek (originally "Boyle Creek") in 1906 and worked as a ranch hand. Erle met and married his wife Lula Thornburg and eventually purchased a ra…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BLG_the-bluff_Carmen-ID.html
"On August 21, 1805, Captain Clark and party camped near this spot. Clark wrote "crossed the river and went over a point of high land and struck it again near a bluff on the right side...those two men joined me at my camp on the right side below t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BLF_first-irrigation-project_Salmon-ID.html
Arriving at the headwaters of Lemhi River, a company of Latter-Day Saint men who had been called to establish a mission among the Indians proceeded approximately 30 miles downstream, selected a site for a fort and a tract of farming land, On June …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BLE_salmon-river-mission_Salmon-ID.html
On April 7, 1855, at the conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Pres. Brigham Young called 27 elders to found a mission among the Indians of the Salmon River Country, Oregon Territory, with Thomas S. Smith in charge. Travel…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22LG_idaho-hermits_Salmon-ID.html
Living for more than 60 years in hand-built "dugouts" across the Salmon River from this site, Richard "Dugout Dick" Zimmerman (1916-2010) came to symbolize the Idaho hermit.
With colorful names like Buckskin Bill and Hank the Hermit, these men …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22LB_tower-rock-william-clarks-clift_Carmen-ID.html
Sixty million years ago, you wouldn't have recognized this place. There were no high mountains, no deep canyons. Streams meandered through a landscape of broad valleys and low hills that may have resembled Kentucky's Cumberland Valley.
The rocks…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22LA_historic-lemhi-co_Carmen-ID.html
1866 - Gold discovered at Leesburg by Elijah Mulkey, Wm. Smith, F.B. Sharkey, Jos. Rapp, & Ward Girton.
Mining has continued in Lemhi Co. with production of $30 Mil. in gold & nearly $35 Mil. in copper, lead, tungsten, silver, etc. 63 mineral …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22L9_sacajawea_Salmon-ID.html
Born in the Lemhi River Valley around 1788, Sacajawea, an Agaidika Shoshone, was the only female member of the Lewis and Clark "Corps of Discovery". She joined the expedition at the Knife River Mandan Village in North Dakota and traveled to the Pa…