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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PHN_idahos-emigrant-trails_Montpelier-ID.html
Westward-bound emigrants entered Idaho after crossing Thomas Fork Valley. They soon encountered the climb and descent of Big Hill, witnessed nature's curiosities at Soda Springs, and discovered willing traders at Fort Hall.
In 1843 wagons first …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PHM_big-hill_Montpelier-ID.html
"the steepest and longest ascent we have made on the route..." - James Wilkins
Looking east across the fields is Big Hill, one of the most difficult obstacles along the 2,000-mile Oregon/California Trail. The trail crosses the Thomas Fork, no…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PGQ_mcauleys-road_Montpelier-ID.html
Coming west with Ezra Meeker in 1852, Thomas McAuley decided to build a road to let emigrants bypass Big Hill.
Worst of all Oregon Trail descents, Big Hill needed replacement. Eliza McAuley reported that her brother Tom "fished awhile, then …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PGI_thomas-fork_Montpelier-ID.html
A bad ford gave trouble to wagon trains crossing this stream on the trail to California and Oregon in 1849.
In that year, gold-seeking 49'ers developed a shortcut that crossed here. Then emigrants built two bridges here in 1850. But an enterpr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PGH_smiths-trading-post_Montpelier-ID.html
In 1848, Pegleg Smith established a trading post on the Oregon Trail at Big Timber somewhere near here on the river.
Some travelers called it "Fort Smith", though it had only four log cabins and some Indian lodges. Packing a plow and tools fr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PGG_bank-robbers_Montpelier-ID.html
On Aug. 13, 1896, Butch Cassidy and his infamous Wild Bunch of gunmen invaded Montpelier's bank and scooped up more than $16,500 in gold, silver and currency.
Leaving a surprised cashier and his terrified customers, they calmly rode away. A de…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PGF_big-hill_Montpelier-ID.html
On their way west to Oregon and California, emigrant wagons often crossed high ridges in order to avoid gullies and canyons.
When he came here in 1843, Theodore Talbot noted that he "had to cross a very high hill, which is said to be the gre…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1P8Y_oregon-trail-1847_Montpelier-ID.html
In 1847, The Oregon Trail passed by this point where Highway 30 now crosses the Idaho-Wyoming Statelines. Here lies the northern most bend of Bear River in Wyoming before it crosses into Idaho. Skirting wet lands to the north and the south, ruts l…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1P8W_golden-anniversary-1940_Montpelier-ID.html
Two plaques are mounted on this monument.
Wyoming
Golden Anniversary 1940
Admitted to Statehood
July 10, 1890
Idaho
50 Years of Statehood
1940
Admitted July 3, 1890
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L75_in-honor-of-the-rexburg-stake-pioneers_Rexburg-ID.html
Erected Sept. 28, 1935
In honor of the Rexburg Stake Pioneers
The founders of Rexburg, March 11, 1883
Thomas E. Ricks · Henry Flamm · Francis C. Gunnell · Fred Smith · William F. Rigby · Daniel Walte…