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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B5A_rossi-insurance-building_Wallace-ID.html
Erected as the Bank of Wallace 1890
Purchased by the First National Bank of Wallace 1892
Second story and turret added circa 1896
Purchased by Rossi Insurance Company 1917
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B59_hercules-mill_Wallace-ID.html
Built in 1911, the Hercules Mill towered 87 feet above the railroad tracks and fed lead-silver concentrates to rail cars. It was situated on the hillside north of the Coeur d'Alene River and served by Northern Pacific rail line entering Wallace. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B58_wallace-world-war-memorial-a-war-memorial_Wallace-ID.html
For Your Tomorrow They Gave Their To-day
Bror Anderson · Lewis N. Bailey · Carl G. Beck · Braxton Bigelow · E.N. Carroll · Clyde Carson · Henry Carruthers · Thomas DeGroot &midd…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B3K_mullan-military-road_Cataldo-ID.html
Walk the Mullan Road one of the Northwest's most significant routes. Take the side road to your left.
From 1858-62, Lt. John Mullan's crew built the Northwest's first engineered highway, connecting Fort Benton with Fort Walla Walla, 625 miles. I…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B3G_the-mullan-road_Cataldo-ID.html
Between 1859 and 1862 the U.S. Army built a military wagon road between Fort Benton Montana, and Fort Walla Walla, Washington. This National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark was the first major engineered highway in the Pacific Northwest.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B3B_coeur-d-alene-lake_Coeur-dAlene-ID.html
Look to the north: blocking the northward passage of the rivers which form this lake, a great dam of glacial ice once towered above the horizon as far as the eye can see. When the glacier melted, about 600,000 years ago, it left a moraine - a ri…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B38_kelloggs-jackass_Kellogg-ID.html
With a grubstake of one jackass and $18.75 worth of flour, bacon, and beans, Noah Kellogg came here prospecting in 1855.
Not far from here, his jackass strayed away. Kellogg finally found his wandering burro grazing on a tremendous outcroppin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B37_lake-steamers_Coeur-dAlene-ID.html
Built by the army in 1880 to carry hay and supplies for Fort Coeur d'Alene, the "Amelia Wheaton" was the first of a long list of steamers on this lake. Commercial steamboating began in 1884 with the mining rush. In later years, fleets of tallfun…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B24_historic-wallace-south-hill-stairs_Wallace-ID.html
Stepping into History Nestled in a narrow mountainous valley with a booming population, Wallace had little place to grow except onto the hillside. The steepness of the south hill prevent roads from being constructed in a standard city block patte…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B21_frisco-mill_Wallace-ID.html
During a gun war that broke out between company and union miners here, several boxes of dynamite were exploded shattering a four-story mill, July 11 1892
Overwhelmed by union miners, company managers surrendered. Six fatalities — half fr…