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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20IT_memories-of-conda-a-company-community_Soda-Springs-ID.html
Only memories remain...
In 1920, the ambitious Anaconda Copper Mining Company built the community of Conda to house its phosphate miners and their families. About 300 people resided in Conda during the mining heyday. The town closed in 1984. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20IS_conda-mine-a-phosphate-fortune-unearthed_Soda-Springs-ID.html
Southeast Idaho is a major phosphate-producing region and phosphate mining has been an important industry here since the turn of the 20th century.
1920s world-wide demand for metals and chemicals
During the 1920s, world-wide demand for metal…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20IR_the-dinkey-engine_Soda-Springs-ID.html
This miniature locomotive played an integral part in the history of Caribou County. When the dam at Alexander Reservoir was built in 1924, it hauled supplies to the dam. Trapped by rising water, the locomotive was abandoned. In 1976 the reservoir …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20IQ_coach-history_Soda-Springs-ID.html
In 1958, Dr. Evan and Lois Kackley donated the Yellowstone Coach to the City of Soda Springs. According to Dr. Kackley's written letters to the city council he stated, "This particular coach was used to carry Pres. Theodore Roosevelt and the grea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM207Y_wagon-box-grave-of-1861_Soda-Springs-ID.html
This monument marks the grave of an immigrant family, father, mother , and five children, massacred on Little Spring Creek one half mile south of this spot, buried in their own wagon box by trappers and immigrants led by George W. Goodheart.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM207X_not-a-walk-in-the-park_Soda-Springs-ID.html
The story of the American West is not simply a tale of pioneer courage and vision or of prairie schooners swaying westward to the strains of heroic music. Rather, it is a complex story of plots and sub plots, of romance and religion, of politics a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM207U_hooper-spring_Soda-Springs-ID.html
Free clear sparkling soda water still is available in a beautiful Soda Springs city park located 2 miles from here.
A prime attraction for more than 160 years, soda water from these springs was marketed nationally after rail service reached th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM207Q_ground-observation-corps-soda-springs-post_Soda-Springs-ID.html
On February 7, 1951, the State of Idaho Department of Civil Defense set up the GOC, a Citizen Volunteer Auxiliary with the United States Air Force.
In October, 1951, Soda Springs and Caribou County Ground Observers met with Major T.A. Burda, Air…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM207P_it-roars-like-a-mad-dragon_Soda-Springs-ID.html
Many Oregon & California bound emigrants mention seeing ten to twelve foot hight white mounds and cones in their diaries and journals while passing through the Soda Springs area in the mid-1800s. Often, one of the first natural curiosities that th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM207O_george-w-and-leah-wallet-gorton_Soda-Springs-ID.html
George and Leah were parents of eleven children. In early November, 1884 George and Leah lost four of their five young daughters, in a two week period, to a terrible diphtheria epidemic. Leah did not like the Pioneer Cemetery east of town because …