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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AAB_weippe-prairie_Weippe-ID.html
Welcome to Weippe Prairie
This has always been a traditional gathering place for the Nez Perce people where camas bulbs are harvested and baked each year. The blue flower of the camas lily grow so thick here in the spring time that from a d…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AA5_pierce-courthouse_Pierce-ID.html
When the courthouse was built in 1862, Pierce was a boomtown. Gold discovered in the nearby hills was attracting thousands of miners. There was one catch: they were all trespassing on Nez Perce land.
The government solution was to draw up a new …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AA3_corps-of-discovery_Weippe-ID.html
The brass monument nearby is provided by the Idaho Society of Professional Land Surveyors to commemorated the "Lewis and Clark" Corps of Discovery campsite near Weippe Prairie, Idaho.
Datum NAD 83 and NAVD88
Latitude N 46ยบ21' 00" Latitude …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AA2_first-contact-between-two-cultures_Weippe-ID.html
I Set out early and proceeded ... to a Small Plain in which I found maney Indian lodges ... I met 3 Indian boys, when they saw me they ran and hid themselves. — Capt. William Clark, September 20, 1805
After Lewis and Clark's Corps of Di…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2A9A_boom-chinese-of-pierce_Pierce-ID.html
During the gold rush boom, the population exceeded 6,000. At that time Pierce was actually located in Washington Territory. In 1861, Pierce became the first established gold rush town in Idaho, and the county seat of Shoshone County. In 1862, the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2A99_murder-vigilantes_Pierce-ID.html
One summer's night in 1885, it is alleged that five Chinese men gained entrance to the Fraser General Store, while their fellow countrymen set-off fireworks up and down Main Street. It was a stormy night and the fireworks supposedly helped drive-o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2A98_oro-fino-city_Pierce-ID.html
Commercial center of Idaho's earliest mining district in the great days of 1861. It flourished here for more than a year.
Pierce City was only 2 miles away but another town sprang up near some rich gold strikes. In its first few weeks, Oro Fino…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2A97_canal-gulch_Pierce-ID.html
The fabulous Gold Rush days of Idaho began on September 30, 1860, when W.F. Bassett struck gold just about here.
E.D. Pierce, who knew the country, had led twelve prospectors, including Bassett, out from Walla Walla in August. After news of the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2A95_pierce-courthouse_Pierce-ID.html
Shoshone County's original courthouse — and Idaho's earliest public building — still stands in Pierce., where it was built in 1862.
Although Pierce gained a large population for a year after gold was discovered here in 1860, most of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2A8M_gold-discovered_Pierce-ID.html
Hearing rumors of gold in the hills, Captain Elias Davidson Pierce started his first journey from Walla Walla to this area on August 12, 1860, with a crew of ten. The crew included: Benthnel Farrell (18), Horace Dodge (22), Joseph L. Davis (37), J…