Idaho: Idaho State Historical Society
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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 Railway s…
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Camp Rupert. . Camp Rupert was the largest prisoner of war camp in Idaho. Housing some 4000 POWs most were German and Italian. . The Camp was built at an initial cost of $500,000 and maintained by nearly 1000 army personnel and civilians. Over 170 buildin…
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Albion State Normal School. . Established in March, 1893, by the Second Idaho State Legislature. . Residents of Albion erected and furnished a two-story stone building on five acres of donated land, and the very successful teacher-training school opened …
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Mount McCaleb. . Mt. McCaleb, named for the Civil War veteran and local merchant, Jesse McCaleb, is the prominent 11,683 ft. peak visible north of MacKay. . In 1878, while helping escort supply wagons and arms to Challis, McCaleb and 13 others were attac…
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Ghost Town of Mackay Idaho. . Cliff City and White Knob were bustling mining towns established west of Mackay in the late 1800s. . After copper was discovered in the White Knob Mountains in 1879, Cliff City and White Knob sprang up to support the mines.…
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Lewis and Clark. . On their eastbound journey, the Corps of Discovery and several Nez Perce reached the Nezperce Prairie from present-day Peck on May 8, 1806, and camped on "a Small hansom Stream". . On May 9 the party arrived at the root-digging camp…
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Camas Prairie. . Most of Camas Prairie's wind blown soil rests upon Columbia River lava flows. Coming from a series of widespread eruptions, they covered older, eroded granite rocks here some 6 to 17 million years ago. . Some earlier volcanic extrusions,…