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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HML6F_glenns-ferry_Glenns-Ferry-ID.html
After the golden spike was driven at Promontory Utah in 1869 the nearest railroad station to Boise was Kelton on the north shore of the Great Salt Lake. A ferry was built 1/2 mile up on the river as a joint effort by Gustavus Glenn, a local ranche…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HML6E_oregon-trail_Glenns-Ferry-ID.html
A perilous ford at Three Island State Park was a formidable Oregon Trail barrier. Those who could not cross here faced a longer, more difficult southern route.
No other ford between Missouri and Oregon troubled them so much. This was their larg…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HML5V_paynes-ferry_Hagerman-ID.html
A scow powered by oarsmen let Oregon Trail wagons cross Snake River here from 1852 to 1870.
Then Overland Stage service from Boise to a rail terminal in Kelton, Utah was moved to this crossing, and M.E. Payne installed a large (14 by 60 foot) n…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HML5U_fishing-falls_Hagerman-ID.html
When John C. Fremont came this way mapping emigrant roads in 1843, he found an important Indian village at Fishing Falls (Kanaka rapids) about 4 miles above here.
He reported that native salmon spearers there were "unusually gay...fond of laugh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HML5H_diamondfield-jack_Albion-ID.html
J.L. Davis... Diamondfield Jack... spent most of 6 years in the Cassia County jail while the courts and pardon board were trying to figure out what to do with him.
By far the best known of the gunmen who fought in Idaho's sheep and cattle wars,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HML5G_hudspeths-cutoff_Malta-ID.html
This shortcut to the California goldfields, followed by most of the 49'ers, came out of the hills to the east and joined the old California trail just about here.
Opened by "Messrs. Hudspeth & Myers, of the Jackson County, Missouri, Company," w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HML5F_city-of-rocks_Oakley-ID.html
A vast display of towering granite rocks (16 miles southeast of here) attracted emigrants who were on their way to California.
A gold rush visitor, July 14, 1849, reported that "you can imagine among these massive piles, church domes, spires, p…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HML5E_milner-dam_Oakley-ID.html
When completed in 1904, Milner Dam raised Snake River 38 feet to divert water into major north and south side canals.
A gravity system unmatched in size in national reclamation development, this project irrigates 360,000 acres of land. Twin Fal…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HML5D_starrhs-ferry_Burley-ID.html
In 1880, George Starrh, a Snake River placer miner, started a ferry across Snake River one mile north of here.
From 1880-2, freighters hauling supplies for a mining rush to Wood River used Starrh's ferry (powered by river current when stiff win…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HML4D_fossil-beds_Bliss-ID.html
Fossil bones of zebras, beaver, otter, pelicans and other water birds are found in sediments left from a 3,400,000 year old pond on the bluff across the river.
Lava flows, pouring out over the plains on this side, met and dammed up sedimentary …