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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AIX_bert-zimmerly_Lewiston-ID.html
Noted pilot and founder of Idaho's first airline. His skillful flying, zest for adventure, pioneer spirit and mercy missions left an aviation legend.
He was a man of remarkable energy, resolution and result — yet, withal a modest and res…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AGX_pacific-northwest-bell-building-historic-name_Lewiston-ID.html
A two-story commercial building built of concrete with massive timber framing with orange and buff brick veneer. In its classical entryway and its use of classical symmetry and balance the building is suggestive of Renaissance Revival style. Decor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AGV_firsts-in-lewiston_Lewiston-ID.html
In this vicinity
was the first deeded land in Lewiston
1861
First homes, post office, courthouse, jail, mill, Masonic Hall, opera house: and first classes in State Normal School. 1896.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AGU_kettenbach-building_Lewiston-ID.html
H.C. Kettenbach, Lewiston businessman, built this block in about 1907, probably to replace an earlier Kettenbach building which had housed a pioneer Lewiston newspaper, the Lewiston Teller. Lewiston City Officies occupied the building in its earli…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AGT_lewiston-hill_Genesee-ID.html
When automobile traffic made steep old wagon roads obsolete, a remarkable new highway grade was built down this hill in 1917.
With a series of sharp curves that let cars go 20 or 30 miles an hour — a good speed for that time — a g…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AGS_steamboats_Lewiston-ID.html
Started May 13, 1861, as a steamboat landing, Lewiston immediately became a primary commercial center for Idaho miners during their hectic gold rush to Pierce that spring. Steamboats continued to dock there until 1940, mainly after Columbia and S…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AGE_relic-of-rustic-past_Lewiston-ID.html
Said to date from the late 1860s, this historic log cabin is Lewiston's oldest surviving residence and once sat on 19th Street between Main and G Streets. The first documented owner was Samuel C. Thompson (1820-1898), who came to Lewiston in 1862 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AGD_old-city-hall_Lewiston-ID.html
The south section, which for many years housed City Hall, was built in 1909. The north section, once the city fire station, was built between 1918 and 1928. This simple commercial style is suggestive of Renaissance Revival. Many of its original br…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AFK_lewis-and-clark_Lewiston-ID.html
The first white men to cross this country and reach the Pacific Ocean via Lolo Pass and present site of Lewiston. They came and returned the way that leads you are now on the Lewis and Clark Highway along the Clearwater River - the mighty waters c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AFI_means-building_Lewiston-ID.html
At the turn of the century, Mark A. Means, who had arrived by horseback in 1881, and stayed to amass a fortune, hired Lewiston architect J.H. Nave to build a structure to house the various enterprises Means had in mind.
Built of white pressed br…