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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AXZ_solving-power-problems_Bonners-Ferry-ID.html
During the 1920s, the Bonners Ferry Water and Light Department made multiple improvements to the Moyie River and Myrtle Creek power plants, but relying on hydroelectric power alone has its drawbacks. Generating electricity depended on river flows,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AMM_david-thompson_Bonners-Ferry-ID.html
Coming from Canada, the famous map maker and trader for the North West Company explored this area and river in 1808.
On May 8 somewhere near here, Thompson's famished party, all sick from eating a "much tainted" antelope, met ten lodges of In…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AML_kootenai-tribe-of-idaho_Bonners-Ferry-ID.html
The Kootenai Tribe of Idaho has lived in their aboriginal homeland of Idaho, Montana and British Columbia for thousands of years.
A unique culture, the Kootenais are known for their distinctive sturgeon-nose canoe and their linguistically iso…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AMJ_bonners-ferry_Bonners-Ferry-ID.html
Gold miners rushing to Wild Horse in British Columbia in 1863 were paddled across this river by Indians; in 1864 E.L. Bonner established a proper ferry here.
This ferry and its trading store served the Wild Horse packtrains for many years. St…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AM3_glacial-lakes_Bonners-Ferry-ID.html
Moving from the north down this valley, the edge of the continental ice sheet blocked rivers and formed glacial lakes.
Then as the ice gradually melted, a lake rose here behind the receding ice dam, and extended up Kootenai valley into Canad…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AM2_wild-horse-trail_Bonners-Ferry-ID.html
Thousands of eager miners came by here in an 1864-65 gold rush to Wild Horse, BC. Parts of their pack trail still can be seen.
An extension of North Idaho's earlier gold excitements, Wild Horse was served by a pack trains that hauled supplie…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22RY_pelton-wheel_Bonners-Ferry-ID.html
This Pelton Wheel provided the power to generate the first electricity from the foot of Myrtle Creek 6 miles west of town, for the Village of Bonners Ferry from 1906 - 1921.