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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZZV_beaver-divide_Montpelier-ID.html
To load their wagons with salt from the salt springs on Crow Creek, Mormon settlers of Bear Lake Valley followed the Native American Indian trail over this pass about 1865.
In 1868, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Apostle Charles …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZZT_white-dugway_Montpelier-ID.html
Clinging to the white shale formation a mile east (on the Crow Creek Rd.) is the White Dugway. There was moisture in the shale and when frost had it in its grip the road was very slippery. Freighters learned to be cautious as a wagon or sleigh co…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZZR_nield-ranch_Montpelier-ID.html
"I have always felt I was at a disadvantage in making a living for my self and family if I did not have a wagon and team." - John Nield Diary
John and Sarah Broadbent Nield moved their family to Star Valley in 1888 over the Crow Cree…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZZQ_halfway-house_Montpelier-ID.html
The Crow Creek Road was the link between the Mormon settlements of Bear Lake and Star Valley for 50 years. The 100-mile round trip between Afton, WY and the railhead at Montpelier ID would take a team of horses from 3 to 7 days depending on the co…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNPL_a-grand-vision_Soda-Springs-ID.html
The first Mormon emigrants arrived in the Salt Lake Valley in 1847 and immediately began laying the groundwork for the small settlement that would become Salt Lake City. Church President Brigham Young however, had a much grander vision for his peo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNPI_brigham-young-summer-home_Soda-Springs-ID.html
On this site in 1870, the first house in Soda Springs, Uppertown was built under the direction of John Walmsley. It was a one room log cabin twenty-two by eighteen feet, with floor, windows, and shingle roof, known as the Brigham Young Summer Home…