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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22O2_parting-of-the-ways_Challis-ID.html
Two maker panels are located at this kiosk The Keystone Road splits from the Toll Road near here. Teamsters and supplies headed for Bayhorse Mining District followed the Keystone Road to Bayhorse, Crystal and Clayton. In 1889, the Salmon River…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22NW_corkscrew-grade_Challis-ID.html
Travel on the Toll Road remained difficult due to the road's roughness. Pulling heavy loads over the road's two summits often fell upon oxen, The crack of the bullwhacker's whip and snort of laboring beasts were common sounds. You may still see fa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22NU_tollgate-station_Challis-ID.html
Completion of the Toll Road in 1879 brought a period of prosperity to the Yankee Fork. Now heavy equipment needed to construct a mill could be transported in and large quantities of gold bullion shipped out to market. It also allowed goods and nec…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22NS_alex-toponce_Challis-ID.html
Lack of development and limited government services in the western territories created opportunities for entrepreneurs like Alex Toponce. Arriving from France at age seven, Toponce traveled west and by age 18 had worked as a bullwhacker. By 1860 h…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22NI_bison-jump_Challis-ID.html
Before settlers came to Idaho in 1860, Buffalo used to roam through this valley. Most of them had left here by 1840. After they acquired Spanish horses, eighteenth century Shoshone buffalo hunters could drive a small herd over a cliff to make th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22M0_challis_Challis-ID.html
Founded in 1878, Challis provided a vital link to the outside world for the remote mining camps of the Yankee Fork and Bayhorse Mining Districts. Supply wagons arrived in Challis from Corinne, Utah and later Blackfoot, Idaho, with goods for delive…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22LH_land-of-the-yankee-fork-historic-area_Challis-ID.html
Overlooked by many heading west, Idaho experienced little settlement until the 1860s when the discovery of gold brought a reverse migration from Oregon, Washington and California. Mining camps immediately sprang to life and the busy noises of pick…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14PZ_michel-bourdon_Challis-ID.html
This Valley was discovered in 1822 by an expedition of Hudson's Bay Company trappers led by Michel Bourdon. Bourdon had come to the Northwest with David Thompson, who had started the Idaho fur trade in 1808-9. Trappers searched everywhere for beav…
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