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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21OL_old-fort-hall_Pocatello-ID.html
Fort Hall, Keystone on the Oregon Trail, America's road to destiny, was located 14 miles north of this site. It was dedicated by Nathaniel J. Wyeth, Bostonian, on Aug. 5th 1834. Unable to compete with Hudson's Bay Co., Fort Boise; Wyeth sold the F…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21OK_idaho-state-university_Pocatello-ID.html
This great institution began here on Sept. 22, 1902, with 4 teachers and 40 students.
Originally the Academy of Idaho, it became Idaho Technical Institute in 1915, the Southern Branch of the University of Idaho in 1927, and Idaho State College i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21O1_idahos-1st-railroad_Inkom-ID.html
Through this canyon once puffed the wood-burning locomotives of the narrow-gauge Utah and Northern Railway.
Construction, undertaken by a Mormon Co-op, came northward from a junction with the transcontinental line, but stopped in 1874 at Frankli…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21O0_chief-pocatello_Pocatello-ID.html
In an era of emigrants, Mormon settlers and the military, Pocatello emerged as a strong leader of the the Hukenduka Shoshone.
Born after 1810, Pocatello claimed this area and surrounding territories as his homeland. He soon watched his people …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21NM_lava-hot-springs-healing-waters_Lava-Hot-Springs-ID.html
(This marker is composed of series of photographs and their captions.)
Good for what ails you!
Idaho's hot springs have drawn people to them for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. Long before indoor plumbing and hot water heaters, bu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21NL_lead-bell-mining-company_Lava-Hot-Springs-ID.html
In 1921, William Godfrey and CJ Lundgren registered the Lead Bell Mining Company, Portneuf District with 1,000,000 shares at par value 10 cents. Operated 1925-1938. Sd (sic) Colton, Pres. Drecilla Godfrey, Sec. Wm Godfrey, Mgr. Mined Lead, Zinc, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21NK_furs-and-farms-fire-and-floods_Lava-Hot-Springs-ID.html
(This marker consists of series of photographs and their captions.)
The community of Lava Hot Springs is located at a strategic crossroads between the Rockies, the Great Basin, and the West. The year-round availability of natural hot and cold …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21NJ_mccammon-railroad-center_McCammon-ID.html
The development of McCammon was closely associated with the transportation industry. William Murphy, in early 1863, built the first toll bridge, and McCammon became the nucleus of the Overland Stage Lines. H.O. Harkness acquired the toll bridge af…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21NI_location-location-location_McCammon-ID.html
McCammon's mogul
(two photos at bottom left)
In 1865 William H. Murphy operated a toll bridge on the Portneuf River mainly used by miners traveling from Utah to the Montana goldfields. Murphy and his wife Catherine Scott Murphy hired Henr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/tmp-ebaae_red-rock-pass_Downey-ID.html
You are standing in the outlet of ancient Lake Bonneville, a vast prehistoric inland sea, of which Salt Lake is modern remnant
Covering over 20,000 square miles when it overflowed here about 14,500 years ago, its winding shoreline would have st…