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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C5V_lava-hot-springs_Lava-Hot-Springs-ID.html
Long before white men discovered these springs, Sept. 9, 1812, Indians gathered here to use the free hot water. Except wheen they found hot springs, pre-historic Indians had a hard time getting hot water. The wove watertight baskets into whic…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C4B_fort-henry-historic-byway_Dubois-ID.html
( six panels are located beneath the interpretive site shelter:) A Region Where History Was Made The scenic routes shown on this map will take you to several historic and scenic landmarks in northeastern Idaho. You will travel through a …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C2K_central-ferry-station_Blackfoot-ID.html
A log structure was erected one half mile north of this site in 1864, which served as a stage station. The Ben Holliday stages use it as a stopping place as did the freighters who passed this way. Mail was unofficially handled here for more than a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C1R_eagle-rock-crossing_Idaho-Falls-ID.html
Honoring builders of bridges and trails and pioneers who passed this way in the development of the West. The first wagon bridge over Snake River was erected here by James M. Taylor in 1865 replacing the ferry established on the Utah-Idaho-Monta…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C1Q_highland-park_Idaho-Falls-ID.html
Under the Homestead Act of 1880, John Lingren acquired this land, cleared the sagebrush, raised vegetables and dairy products, started a nursery, planted hundred of fruit, evergreen, shade and ornamental trees. It became Idaho Falls' first amuseme…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C1O_elephant-hunters_Idaho-Falls-ID.html
Early day big game hunters who occupied lava caves around here more than 12,000 years ago, had a diet that included elephants, camels and giant bison. When a gradual change to a warmer, drier climate made local grasslands into more desert the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C1N_rigby_Rigby-ID.html
In 1884 a group of Utah Mormons settled and pioneered this locality. The cleared sagebrush land, dug canals and erected humble log homes. The built a log room which was used for church, school and recreation. Daniel S. Robbins, a veteran, was made…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C1I_farmers-and-merchants-bank_Idaho-Falls-ID.html
In 1908 when James L. Milner needed to house his Farmers and Merchants' Bank, he purchased Turner and Shane's clothing and furnishing store at Park Avenue and A Street. By 1918, Milner had transformed the store into one of Idaho's best-equipped ba…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C17_beaver-canyon_Spencer-ID.html
After Montana's Gold Rushes began in 1862, thousands of miners came past here and a Beaver Canyon stage station was built here. Freighters and travelers on stage lines from Salt Lake to Montana stopped at this station until Utah and Northern…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C16_nez-perce-war_Dubois-ID.html
When General O.O. Howard tried to get more than 600 Nez Perce Indians to settle on a North Idaho reservation in 1877, he ran into a lot of trouble here. On their way to Yellowstone Park, Chief Joseph's Nez Perce people reached Hole in the Rock…
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