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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23CS_a-community-in-trouble_Lowman-ID.html
At 4:00pm on July 29, the Lowman Fire exploded, consuming five square miles of forest.
In two hours it grew into a fire storm that destroyed parts of the dispersed Lowman community.
Saving lives was the first priority of fire fighters who quickl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23CR_life-in-a-fire-camp_Lowman-ID.html
Imagine, the battle against this immense fire was launched from this small Ranger Station!
More than 2,300 people came from all over the country to work on the fire lines.
Many of them lived in "fire camps" scattered around the Lowman …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM230X_george-kettlers-blacksmith-shop_Idaho-City-ID.html
Originally George Kettler's Blacksmith Shop with ox and horseshoeing sheds on both sides.
In more recent years it was owned by Tom and Florence Adams.
From 1948 - 1975 they published the "Idaho Mountaineer" newspaper and the "Id…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22VS_boise-county-courthouse_Idaho-City-ID.html
In July of 1871 construction began on this handsome brick building, which was completed by October of the same year.
The building was built by C.S. and E.A. Kingsley as a general store.
Several businesses have occupied this building over the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22VR_the-idaho-world_Idaho-City-ID.html
In September of 1863 the pioneer printers Joseph & Thomas Butler founded the newspaper called the "Boise News."
It was later changed to the "Idaho World."
The Idaho World boasts the title of Idaho's oldest newspaper.
Th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFDF_horse-shoe-bend_Horseshoe-Bend-ID.html
Gold was struck in Boise Basin (over the ridge to the east) in 1862, and the rush to these new mines came through here.
Traffic came by steamer up the Columbia to Umatilla, and thence overland. At first there were only pack and saddle trains, b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEYV_emile-grandjean_Lowman-ID.html
An immigrant from Denmark where he had studied forestry, he came to this part of Idaho in 1883 to mine, hunt and trap.
Before Idaho became a state in 1890, he built a winter cabin below Grandjean Peak on a site later occupied by Grandjean Range…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEYU_emma-edwards_Lowman-ID.html
A talented artist, Emma Edwards went to work in 1890 to to design Idaho's state seal when she was only 18 years old.
Although her father had moved to California after serving as governor of Missouri (1844 to 1848), Emma preferred to spend much …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEYF_lowman_Lowman-ID.html
In 1907, Nathaniel W. Lowman settled here, and four years later, when he started a post office in his large log house, this community was named for him.
Only a few scattered settlers lived here then. Lowman got all its supplies once a year from…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEY1_idaho-city_Boise-ID.html
This roaring metropolis was founding early in October, 1862, about ten weeks after gold was discovered in Boise basin.
By the next summer, this was the largest city in the Northwest, with 6,275 people — 5,691 of them men! Families followe…