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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM230E_the-building-of-many-names_Murphy-ID.html
Built 1866 "Star Brewery" & Sommercamp Saloon" (Bar above - Brewery below)
1893 "Soda Work"
1893 "Brewery Saloon"
1894 "Stuckman Photography"
1894 "Watts Apartments"
1895 "J.G, Drug Store"
1896 "Biles Confectionary"
1896 Bowling a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM230D_silver-city_Murphy-ID.html
↑ The Last Post Office in Silver City
Original building built about 1868. Known as the "Schleifer" House and later as the "Riordan" House. This was the location of the last post office. It was the home of Fred Webb who lived her and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22Z4_the-murphy-school-house-district-14_Murphy-ID.html
District 14 was created in 1898 for the Guffy area. This was formerly part of District 9. District 14 encompassed the land between Walter's Ferry to the mouth of Sinker Creek and ran south (to) Diamond Basin. The original schoolhouse was built in …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22Z3_the-otter-massacre_Murphy-ID.html
Erected to the memory of the
Otter Massacre
1860
Forty-four persons ambushed by Shoshone Indians either killed or scattered. Most awful human experience. Site ten miles east on Sinker Creek.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22Z1_owyhee-country_Marsing-ID.html
The name applied to the mountains and the whole surrounding region is an outdated spelling of the word "Hawaii".
Fur-trading ships brought Hawaiian natives — then called "Owyhees" — to the Northwest. In 1818, Donald Mackenzie brough…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22Z0_utter-wagon-train-disaster_Murphy-ID.html
Near here the Elijah P. Utter wagon train was attacked by Indians on September 9 and 10, 1860. The two-day encounter resulted in the deaths of eleven emigrants and an estimated twenty-five to thirty Indians. The forty-four member train was compose…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22YY_war-eagle-mines_Murphy-ID.html
For decades after 1884, most of Silver City's fabulous mineral wealth came from Upper War Eagle Mountain, which rises a vertical mile above here.
With lodes far richer than those found elsewhere, War Eagle miners fought a series of violent wars…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22YX_diamond-gulch_Murphy-ID.html
In December, 1865, Idaho's Governor — Caleb Lyon of Lyonsdale — set off a wild rush to Diamond Gulch, visible a few miles west of here, with as story that was to good to be true.
He told miners in Silver City that a prospector had g…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22YU_the-utter-disaster_Oreana-ID.html
On September 9 & 10, the Utter Wagon Train engaged in a life-and-death struggle with attacking Indians.
The assault on the wagon train of forty-four emigrants led by Elijah P. Utter just north of here resulted in the death of six men, two women,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20PN_oregon-trail_Homedale-ID.html
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