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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2A6U_fraser-park_Orofino-ID.html
This 10 acre park was a part of the original homestead of John Cattron, who homesteaded the 160 acres in 1890.
Lewis and Clark passed through the park on the old Nez Perce Indian trail that went through the park in 1805. Clark returned to the We…
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David Fraser, a young merchant, came to the area with a pack string headed for Pierce City, the gold rush area, to open a store in the Spring of 1863. Some people of the area encouraged Fraser to open the store here as a lot of the miners had move…
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Orofino is situated on the north and south banks of the Clearwater River.
The area's mild climate and convenient location made it a thriving Nez Perce village site long before Lewis and Clark stopped here in 1805.
Lumberjack Days
With ove…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM237V_ahsakha-village-site_Orofino-ID.html
Lewis and Clark called this place Canoe Camp.
For 11 days in 1805 the Corps of Discovery camped here in the company of Nez Perce while building five canoes for the journey to the Pacific.
For thousands of years before that, this riverbank was th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM237U_1804-1806-corps-of-discovery_Orofino-ID.html
The brass monument nearby is provided by the Idaho Society of Professional Land Surveyors in cooperation with the National Geodetic Survey to commemorate the "Lewis and Clark" Corps of Discovery campsite at Canoe Camp, Idaho.
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22TF_canoe-camp_Orofino-ID.html
Welcome to
Canoe Camp
One of 38 sites of Nez Perce National Historical Park
These grounds have been inhabited for thousands of years by the Nez Perce people, but are best known as the place where the Lewis and Clark Corps of Discov…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22TE_canoe-building-site_Orofino-ID.html
Guided by Twisted Hair and several other Nez Perce, Capt. William Clark selected this as a camp site because of the many large ponderosa pines that grew here then. The canoe makers chopped out small portions of the pine logs, then used fire or hot…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22TD_pit-house-village_Orofino-ID.html
Low mounds and depression in the ground here give only the faintest impression of villages that stood on both banks of the river. These are the remains of pit houses, built 1,500 to 2,000 years ago. Imagine the scene then: people spearing fish, wo…
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Canoe Camp is part of the Nez Perce National Historical Park and a key site along the Northwest Passage Scenic Byway
An Interesting Drive
The 202-mile Northwest Passage Scenic Byway stretches from Lewiston to Lolo Pass on US Highway 12, and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22PA_lewis-and-clark_Orofino-ID.html
After more than a month's search, they finally had reached a westward river where they could use canoes.
From here they continued another 16 miles with their pack horses before they found a campsite with trees suitable for making canoes.
But at …