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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BLM_lewis-and-clark-departure-camp_Carmen-ID.html
Leading packhorses, the Lewis and Clark Expedition followed their Shoshone guide Toby up Tower Creek on August 31, 1805. The Indian road went northwest from here across the foothills to the North Fork of the Salmon.
Behind the Corps of Discovery…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BLK_william-clarks-pirimids_Carmen-ID.html
Clark's "Pirimids" are lessons in erosion and deposition. Looks closely at the columns to see layers of sediment: sandstone, gravel, and larger rocks that were eroded from ancient hills and deposited in valleys millions of years ago. Time and pres…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BLH_erle-and-lula-embleys-cabin_Carmen-ID.html
This cabin was built by Erle Embley. Erle was born in 1885 and raised in Michigan. He came to the Tower Creek (originally "Boyle Creek") in 1906 and worked as a ranch hand. Erle met and married his wife Lula Thornburg and eventually purchased a ra…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BLG_the-bluff_Carmen-ID.html
"On August 21, 1805, Captain Clark and party camped near this spot. Clark wrote "crossed the river and went over a point of high land and struck it again near a bluff on the right side...those two men joined me at my camp on the right side below t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22LB_tower-rock-william-clarks-clift_Carmen-ID.html
Sixty million years ago, you wouldn't have recognized this place. There were no high mountains, no deep canyons. Streams meandered through a landscape of broad valleys and low hills that may have resembled Kentucky's Cumberland Valley.
The rocks…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22LA_historic-lemhi-co_Carmen-ID.html
1866 - Gold discovered at Leesburg by Elijah Mulkey, Wm. Smith, F.B. Sharkey, Jos. Rapp, & Ward Girton.
Mining has continued in Lemhi Co. with production of $30 Mil. in gold & nearly $35 Mil. in copper, lead, tungsten, silver, etc. 63 mineral …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22L4_tower-creek_Carmen-ID.html
Captain Clark, after viewing the Continental Divide on August 22, 1805, remarked, "... we set out early passed a small creek on the right at 1 mile and the points of four mountains verry steep, high, and rockey. The assent of three was so ste…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22L3_william-clarks-campsite-august-21-and-25-1805_Carmen-ID.html
William Clark's reconnaissance party camped here on their way down the Salmon River on August 21. They returned on the 25th, convinced that the canyon was impassable. Clark's hunters saw deer and elk, but not close enough to chance a shot.
"Old…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14NE_fort-bonneville_Carmen-ID.html
In a grove of cottonwoods across the river, Capt. B.L.E. Bonneville established a winter fur trade post. Sept. 26, 1832. His fort, described by a rival trapper as "a miserable establishment" - - -"consisted of several log cabins, low, badly constr…