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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28N8_diversion-dam_Boise-ID.html
In the late 1800s, Idaho Territory needed to attract homesteaders to farm the Boise Valley. At the time, the area was dry sagebrush desert. A young engineer, Arthur Foote, designed a great canal system that was to allow the Boise River to irrigate…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28N7_the-foote-legacy-in-idaho_Boise-ID.html
The Canyon House was located across the Boise River from where you are standing. The house was designed and built by Arthur De Wint Foote in 1885, using funds from literary works by his wife, Mary Hallock Foote. As Chief Engineer for the Idaho Min…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28MM_ezra-meeker_Boise-ID.html
In 1906, at the age of seventy-five, Ezra Meeker began a journey east from his home in Puyallup, Washington, to retrace the route of the Oregon Trail over which he originally traveled in 1852 with his wife and young son. He traveled the route with…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28ML_kelton-road_Boise-ID.html
After the transcontinental railroad was completed on May 10, 1869, new stage and freight routes were established to connect southwester Idaho with newly established railheads.
Kelton, Utah, soon became the main shipping point for Boise, when Joh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28MI_bonneville-point_Boise-ID.html
From the high ridge above the Boise River 5 miles southwest of here, westward-bound travelers got their first view of the Boise Valley. In 1811, Wilson Price Hunt and the Overland Astorians' party were the first white sojourners to enjoy the scene…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28MG_fort-boise_Boise-ID.html
Concern for the safety of westward-bound emigrants became more immediate when news of the Utter party's disastrous confrontation with hostile Indians on September 9 and 10, 1860, reached western settlements. Colonel George Wright, commander of the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28MA_idahos-emigrant-trails_Boise-ID.html
Westward-bound emigrants entered Idaho after crossing Thomas Fork Valley. They soon encountered the climb and descent of Big Hill, witnessed nature's curiosities at Soda Springs, and discovered willing traders at Fort Hall.
In 1843 wagons fir…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23OK_boise-high-school_Boise-ID.html
In 1903, Boise High School opened to students in an elaborate, red brick Victorian building. As the city grew, more space was needed and a new building was designed by the firm of Tourtellotte and Hummel. In order to minimize disruption to student…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23BY_maria-dolores-lola-binnard-circa-1910_Boise-ID.html
Maria Dolores (Lola) Urquides was born to Jesus and Adelaida Urquides on October 8, 1882.
She married Daniel H. Binnard in 1902, but he died suddenly in 1915 and Lola moved back to 115 Main Street to care for her aging father until his death in 1…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23BW_urquides-village-southern-edge-circa-1958_Boise-ID.html
In 1879, with the death of his friend Antonio de Ocampo, the packer Urquides inherited Ocampo's city lot at 115 Main Street.
Here along a canal he built a home for his wife, Adelaida, their sons, Arthur and Manuel and daughter, Maria Dolores.
Me…