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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1D2M_the-hunt-expedition_Boise-ID.html
Beaver pelts lured the first Euro-Americans deep into the American West. In 1810, only four years after Lewis and Clark completed their epic journey, John Jacob Astor established the Pacific Fur Company. He soon financed sea and land expeditions t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1D2K_the-shoshone-and-northern-paiute_Boise-ID.html
The landscape before you is part of the homeland of the Shoshone, Bannock, and Northern Paiute Indians. They occupied these lands for countless generations before the arrival of Euro-Americans. Living in small bands of several families, their live…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HML6H_basque-country_Boise-ID.html
Idaho has a large Basque community that preserves it's ancient European traditions in a new land of opportunity.
Coming here originally to herd sheep on mountain and desert ranges, they shifted into other occupations as quickly as possible, mak…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEYX_beaver-dicks-ferry_Boise-ID.html
In 1863 and 1864, overland packers hauling supplies from Salt Lake City to Idaho City crossed here and took a direct route northward to More's Creek.
They cut a steep grade from the Oregon Trail down to Beaver Dick's Ferry, which served a cross…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEYW_the-oregon-trail_Boise-ID.html
The Oregon Trail is still clearly visible coming off the rimrock across the river. Here the west bound emigrants after 1840 came gratefully down into this green valley.
The first cart passed here with Spalding and Whitman, pioneer missionaries,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEY1_idaho-city_Boise-ID.html
This roaring metropolis was founding early in October, 1862, about ten weeks after gold was discovered in Boise basin.
By the next summer, this was the largest city in the Northwest, with 6,275 people — 5,691 of them men! Families followe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEY0_grimes-creek_Boise-ID.html
Named for George Grimes who, with Moses Splawn, led the party which on August 2, 1862 made the strike that started the Boise basin gold rush.
The party was searching for a rich basin described to Splawn a year earlier by an Indian. Farther up …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEXZ_the-old-toll-road_Boise-ID.html
The Old Toll Road to Idaho City crossed the ridge from Boise through the lowest point you can see in the skyline across the valley.
Climbing the More's creek canyon wall, it crossed this highway about here and swung north. The road was built an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEXX_arrowrock-dam_Boise-ID.html
Higher than any other dam from 1915 until 1934, Arrowrock Dam still is an essential part of Boise Valley's irrigation system.
Located six miles upstream from here, Arrowrock is 350 feet high and 1,150 feet wide. Built at a cost of $4,725,000 to…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEXV_mores-creek_Boise-ID.html
More's Creek is named for J. Marion More, leader of the party of miners who founded Idaho City, October 7, 1862.
Like most of Idaho's early miners, he came originally from the South. Unlike most of them, he struck it rich. During the Idaho gol…