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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28S0_idahos-first-heroine-madame-marie-dorion_Caldwell-ID.html
Madame Marie Dorion passed through Caldwell area in 1811 as the only female traveler in the Wilson Price Hunt Party on what would become a portion of the Oregon Trail through Southern Idaho. She would return to the area with her husband, Pierre Do…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2303_a-k-steunenberg-frank-steunenberg_Caldwell-ID.html
Second generation Hollanders, the 10 Steunenberg children (6 boys, 4 girls) lived their formative years in Knoxville, Iowa. A.K. (Albert Keppel) Steunenberg, answering an advertisement for a printer, came to Caldwell in the late 1880's. He called …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22ZO_caldwell-train-depot_Caldwell-ID.html
In 1884, the Oregon Short Line Railroad reached "Bugtown," later renamed Caldwell after C.A. "Alexander" Caldwell, who served as the President of the Idaho & Oregon Land Improvement Company at the time. The current depot facility is actually the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1E4L_guffey-bridge-snake-river-idaho_Melba-ID.html
The historic Guffey Bridge is an elegant Parker-through truss railroad bridge, the State's largest artifact, and the site of the most spectacular train wreck in Idaho. The Boise, Nampa and Owyhee Railroad (BNO), was organized by owner Col. Wm. Dew…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1E17_northwest-nazarene-university_Nampa-ID.html
In 1913, Eugene Emerson started a Christian school that his church developed into an accredited college on a campus he donated. The college, located on a campus 2 mile southwest of here, moved to university status in 1999. Northwest Nazarene Un…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHEE_the-college-of-idaho_Caldwell-ID.html
Planned by the Presbyterians of southern Idaho in 1884 and opened with 19 students in 1891, this is Idaho's oldest college. William Judson Boone, the founder, remained president 45 years. From a modest beginning with a faculty of 8 (including t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMESX_hostility-erupts-into-violence_Caldwell-ID.html
On August 20, 1854, the Alexander Ward Party of 20 men, women, and children were traveling on the Oregon Trail with five wagons, a day behind a larger party led by Alexander Yantis. The Wards pulled their wagons off the Trail for lunch and to wate…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMES3_violence-is-avenged_Caldwell-ID.html
In early September, 1854, Major Granville Hallar set out with a US military force from their post in Oregon to avenge the Ward-party deaths. Upon arrival at the rebuilt Hudson Bay's Fort Boise near the mouth of the Boise River, the Indians they en…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMERD_to-the-memory-of-the-pioneers_Caldwell-ID.html
To the memory of the pioneers who were massacred by Indians near this spot August 20, 1854. This monument is dedicated by Pioneer Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution Boise, Idaho William Ward ? ? ? Age 44Margaret Ward ? ? ? ?" ? 37M…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMERA_peaceful-trading-turns-hostile_Caldwell-ID.html
In the 1830's, local tribes, including the Shoshone, Paiute, and Bannock began trading with Euro-American fur trappers and missionaries passing through southern Idaho. Peaceful exchanges beneficial to both groups increased in 1842 when wagon train…
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