Idaho: Idaho State Historical Society
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4 miles east of here, the Snake River falls in thunder 210 feet over a rocky ledge higher than famous Niagara.
Indians, trappers, and travellers all knew the "Great Shoshonie." Now the waters upstream have been harnessed for irrigation and power, and in …
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An 1864 overland stage station at Rock Creek, 5 miles south and a mile west of here, offered a desert oasis for 40 years before irrigated farming transformed this area.
James Bascom's 1865 store and Herman Stricker's 1900 mansion have been preserved as t…
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In 1811 the Hunt party likened the terrific torrent of the Snake River three miles east of here to a boiling caldron, adding the the old Scottish word "linn," meaning a waterfall.
They had lost a man and a canoe in a roaring chute upstream. Finding wors…
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Old lava flow changed the geologic structure of this area and thus created a multitude of famous springs here.
Over thousands of years, volcanic activity repeatedly spread lava over the Snake River plain, slowly forcing the river southward in a great cur…
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In 1812, Joseph Miller found 100 lodges of Indians spearing thousands of salmon each afternoon at a cascade below here. Each summer they dried a year's supply.
After 1842, they also traded salmon to Oregon Trail emigrants. John C. Fremont marveled at Sal…
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Fossil bones of zebras, beaver, otter, pelicans and other water birds are found in sediments left from a 3,400,000 year old pond on the bluff across the river.
Lava flows, pouring out over the plains on this side, met and dammed up sedimentary deposits w…
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In 1880, George Starrh, a Snake River placer miner, started a ferry across Snake River one mile north of here.
From 1880-2, freighters hauling supplies for a mining rush to Wood River used Starrh's ferry (powered by river current when stiff winds were no…
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When completed in 1904, Milner Dam raised Snake River 38 feet to divert water into major north and south side canals.
A gravity system unmatched in size in national reclamation development, this project irrigates 360,000 acres of land. Twin Falls, Jerome…
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A vast display of towering granite rocks (16 miles southeast of here) attracted emigrants who were on their way to California.
A gold rush visitor, July 14, 1849, reported that "you can imagine among these massive piles, church domes, spires, pyramids...…
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This shortcut to the California goldfields, followed by most of the 49'ers, came out of the hills to the east and joined the old California trail just about here.
Opened by "Messrs. Hudspeth & Myers, of the Jackson County, Missouri, Company," who reached…