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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/HM2B38_kelloggs-jackass_Kellogg-ID.html
With a grubstake of one jackass and $18.75 worth of flour, bacon, and beans, Noah Kellogg came here prospecting in 1855.
Not far from here, his jackass strayed away. Kellogg finally found his wandering burro grazing on a tremendous outcroppin…
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/HM2B1F_1910-fire_Mullan-ID.html
More than 3,000,000 acres of timber in this area burned during an exceptionally dry summer in 1910. A gigantic fire storm on August 20 did unprecedented damage.
Skies in Montreal and London were blackened by its smoke, which interfered with Nort…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B1C_murray-gold-fields_Mullan-ID.html
After prospecting north of here from 1878 to 1882, A.J. Prichard showed a few fortune hunters where to find gold. More than a year later, a horde of miners rushed there to start Eagle City.
A permanent camp followed at Murray, Jan, 22, 1884. A…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B1A_welcome-to-silver-valley_Mullan-ID.html
More than 1.2 billion ounces of silver have been mined in Idaho's Silver Valley the once hundreds of mines were actively worked. Today there are just a few active operations remaining. Below you is the impoundment that stores tailings from Hecla'…