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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B5A_rossi-insurance-building_Wallace-ID.html
Erected as the Bank of Wallace 1890
Purchased by the First National Bank of Wallace 1892
Second story and turret added circa 1896
Purchased by Rossi Insurance Company 1917
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B59_hercules-mill_Wallace-ID.html
Built in 1911, the Hercules Mill towered 87 feet above the railroad tracks and fed lead-silver concentrates to rail cars. It was situated on the hillside north of the Coeur d'Alene River and served by Northern Pacific rail line entering Wallace. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B58_wallace-world-war-memorial-a-war-memorial_Wallace-ID.html
For Your Tomorrow They Gave Their To-day
Bror Anderson · Lewis N. Bailey · Carl G. Beck · Braxton Bigelow · E.N. Carroll · Clyde Carson · Henry Carruthers · Thomas DeGroot &midd…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B24_historic-wallace-south-hill-stairs_Wallace-ID.html
Stepping into History Nestled in a narrow mountainous valley with a booming population, Wallace had little place to grow except onto the hillside. The steepness of the south hill prevent roads from being constructed in a standard city block patte…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B21_frisco-mill_Wallace-ID.html
During a gun war that broke out between company and union miners here, several boxes of dynamite were exploded shattering a four-story mill, July 11 1892
Overwhelmed by union miners, company managers surrendered. Six fatalities — half fr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B20_burke_Wallace-ID.html
Lead-silver discoveries in 1884 attracted a railroad to Burke by 1887. Hundreds of miners lived there in a canyon so narrow that they scarcely had room for streets.
So in 1888, S.S. Glidden's Tiger Hotel had to be built over, rather than beside,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM235K_the-big-blowup_Wallace-ID.html
Walls of flame pushed by hurricane-force winds raced through the region, trapping fire crews, destroying mines, homesteads, and igniting towns.
Much of the town of Wallace, Idaho was left in ashes.
In the end, over 1,700 fires ravaged three mi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM235J_the-big-blowup_Wallace-ID.html
Crews disembarking trains were a diverse group of laborers with little knowledge of the rugged northern Rockies and almost no firefighting experience.
Many of their names are known, however many are unknown and their histories will never be rec…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22WR_pulaskis-trail_Wallace-ID.html
This two-mile trail
will take you to The Pulaski Tunnel.
There, during two days in August 1910, Ranger "Big Ed" Pulaski, in the midst of a raging inferno, saved the lives of all but 6 of his 45-man crew.
The firestorm that Pulaski…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22WQ_big-ed-pulaski_Wallace-ID.html
The hardened but humble hero of "The Big Blowup"
Strong and mature Edward C. Pulaski was just the type of experienced man the fledgling Forest Service was looking for in 1908 when he was hired.
Pulaski left school in Green Springs,…