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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22VP_travertine-terraces-world-famous-water_Soda-Springs-ID.html
The gently sloping mound around the geyser is travertine. The stone often develops into flights of pools enclosed within little dams.
These dams form through a mix of water and carbon dioxide which makes carbonic acid, and dissolved calcium carbo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20N2_fort-hall_Soda-Springs-ID.html
For over two decades (1834-1856), fur trappers and Oregon Trail wagon trains passed by the doors of this adobe fort. Nathaniel Wyeth, an ambitious Bostonian, built the post in 1834 but soon sold his holdings to the Hudson's Bay Company, whose staf…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20N1_sheep-rock-geology_Soda-Springs-ID.html
Lava eruptions west of Sheep Rock at least 140,000 years ago blocked the Bear River from draining into the Snake River system. Instead, the Bear was forced to drain into what was then Lakes Thatcher and Bonneville to the south. The Bear River's co…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20N0_trails-rails-and-highways_Soda-Springs-ID.html
This is an east-west travel corridor of the earliest emigrant trails that continued even after the arrival of railroads and highways. Early explorers, such as John Fremont, Jedediah Smith, Osborne Russell, and missionary Narcissi Whitman were amon…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20MZ_idahos-emigrant-trails_Soda-Springs-ID.html
Westward-bound emigrants entered Idaho after crossing Thomas Fork Valley. They soon encountered the climb and decent of Big Hill, witnessed nature's curiosities at Soda Springs, and discovered willing traders at Fort Hall.
In 1843 wagons first r…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20MI_hudspeth-cutoff_Soda-Springs-ID.html
Native Americans traveled and camped in the Soda Springs area for centuries before emigrants traveled the Oregon Trail.
Sheep Rock (Soda Point) marked the junction of the main route of the Oregon-California Trail and the Hudspeth Cutoff and was …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20LB_the-value-of-a-shortcut_Soda-Springs-ID.html
When they left the main trail leading to Fort Hall, emigrants heading to California thought that Hudspeth's Cutoff would save them considerable time and miles in the race to the gold fields. To their surprise, they were still in Idaho's Raft River…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20LA_horatios-journey_Soda-Springs-ID.html
The route of US 30 traces its origin to the early 1900s. Until that time, the current route was but a well-traveled wagon road parallel with the Oregon Short Line railroad. In the spring of 1903, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson became the first person …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20L9_hudspeths-cutoff_Bancroft-ID.html
In the summer of 1849, the California Gold Rush was diverted this way in search of a more direct route to the mines.
Stampeding 49'ers would try anything to save miles and time in their rush for California's gold: the regular Oregon and Califo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20L8_chesterfield_Bancroft-ID.html
In 1879, Mormon farmers from Utah settled Chesterfield, 16 miles north of here.
Based on Joseph Smith's Zion Plat, Chesterfield was laid out on an orderly grid of large blocks separated by wide streets with the Meeting House on the highest poi…