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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM225D_cotes-defile_Leadore-ID.html
A French Canadian who came to southern Idaho in 1818, Joseph Cote found this valley while trapping beaver.
Though he was thousands of miles from his Canadian base in Montreal, he had years of experience in Pacific Northwest exploration. With M…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM225C_charcoal-kilns_Leadore-ID.html
Charcoal for a smelter, active from 1885-1889 across the valley at Nicholia, was produced in 16 kilns 6 miles west of here.
Discover in 1881, the Viola mine became an important source for lead and silver from 1886-1888. Ore also was hauled fro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM225A_once-upon-a-time_Leadore-ID.html
Sixteen charcoal kilns were built on this site in 1886 by J.W. and W.C. King of Butte, Montana.
The kilns produced charcoal for the smelter at Nicholia for about two years. When the smelter closed suddenly in 1888, operations at the kilns abrupt…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14PE_sacajawea-historic-byway_Salmon-ID.html
[This marker also serves as a site map for historical and natural resource sites. The text is entered in the order of their numbers.]1. Mud Lake Wildlife Management AreaMud Lake Wildlife Management Area was established in 1940 by the Idaho Departm…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14NV_in-memory-of-jeff-allen-and-shane-heath_North-Fork-ID.html
In memory ofJeff Allen and Shane Heath,Indianola Helitack Crew members,lost in the Cramer Fire near here onJuly 22, 2003.This will be a lasting place of remembrance and gratitude for their lives and service, a place for wildland firefighters to re…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14NU_deep-creek_Gibbonsville-ID.html
Sept. 2, 1805 Lewis and Clark proceeded with much difficulty up the North Fork, they camped on the west side of the river in this vicinity. Clark wrote "...we were obliged to cut a road, over rocky hill Slides where our horses were in peteal dange…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14NE_fort-bonneville_Carmen-ID.html
In a grove of cottonwoods across the river, Capt. B.L.E. Bonneville established a winter fur trade post. Sept. 26, 1832. His fort, described by a rival trapper as "a miserable establishment" - - -"consisted of several log cabins, low, badly constr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14ND_lewis-and-clark_North-Fork-ID.html
Clark explored the first few miles of the rugged canyon of the Salmon below here late in August 1805. His small advance party camped here with poor but friendly Indians. Clark reported that the Salmon "is almost one continued rapid," and that pass…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14M6_lewis-and-clark_Gibbonsville-ID.html
On their way north searching for a route over Idaho's mountain barrier, Lewis and Clark left this canyon and ascended a high ridge to reach Bitterroot Valley, September 3-4, 1805. No Indian trail came this way, but Tobe, their experienced Shoshoni…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14L4_hungry-wet-and-cold_North-Fork-ID.html
The historic Lewis and Clark Expedition travelled along this river in 1805. As the first white men to document this region, their maps, diaries, and encounters with different cultures forever changed the western landscape. Cold, wet and hungry, Ca…