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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZZX_snowslide-canyon-and-hankes-ranch_Montpelier-ID.html
By 1881, just five years following the opening of the Crow Creek Freight Road, freighters had started calling this canyon by that name. Snowslides were frequent on snowy, windy days as drifts would build up on the shale ridge. Unable to hold the s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZZW_camp-giveout_Montpelier-ID.html
Within five years after Apostle Charles C Rich was called to establish a settlement in Bear Lake Valley, 1868, he looked at western Wyoming as a possible expansion of the Mormon community. By 1879 the Bear Lake Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZZ5_gutzon-borglum-monument_Saint-Charles-ID.html
Erected in Honor of
Gutzon Borglum
Born in the village of St. Charles
Idaho, March 25, 1867
He is internationally known for
his painting and sculptoring
and most famous for Mount
Rushmore National Monument
Gutzon Borglum: the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZZ2_pioneer-church_Montpelier-ID.html
In the spring of 1864, fifteen families of pioneers came from Paris, Idaho and settled Clover Creek, the name used until President Brigham Young changed it to Montpelier. After building crude homes the settlers erected a large building of logs, wh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZYY_st-charles_Saint-Charles-ID.html
In May, 1864 Brigham Young called Swan Arnell, Sr., Charles G. Keetch, Sr., Robert Pope, and Johh Windley with their families to settle here. Soon others followed. Charles Windley was the first child born in the village. The town site was surveyed…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZYP_our-first-church_Paris-ID.html
Paris, Idaho was settled in the fall of 1863. Two years later a building used for church, school and recreation was erected by James Nye and others, of logs hauled from George Sirrine's sawmill It was 20' X 60' with two large rooms and a stage at …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZYA_thomas-sleight-cabin_Paris-ID.html
The Thomas Sleight Cabin was built in the fall of 1863 by Thomas Sleight and Charles Atkins, who with their wives, Marianne and Ann, occupied it together during the first winter of the settlement of Paris, Idaho.
It was first finished with a dir…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZY9_bear-lake_Fish-Haven-ID.html
Discovered in 1812 by trappers returning home from Astoria, Oregon, this valley and its large lake soon became an important fur trade center.
Donald Mackenzie, Jim Bridger and a host of famous beaver hunters operated here. Two major summer frol…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/tmp-46859_charles-coulson-rich_Paris-ID.html
In honor of
Charles Coulson Rich
1809-1893
Pioneer builder of the west.
Major-General of the Nauvoo Legion
Alderman of the City of Nauvoo, in the time of Joseph Smith.
Pioneer of Utah, 1847.
Chairman of the first committee to organi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/tmp-bbd94_paris-tabernacle_Paris-ID.html
Designed by one of Brigham Young's sons, this imposing Romanesque tabernacle was built between 1884 an 1889 by skilled local craftsmen.
Swiss stone masons cut and carved red sandstone that horse and ox teams hauled from a canyon 18 miles away…