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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUNS_temporary-trestles_Cottonwood-Falls-ID.html
Get the Line Open Quickly!
That was the policy of the Milwaukee Road. To do this in 1907 and 1908, the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Railroad built numerous sturdy, but short-lived, wood trestles to prepare the new line for track as soon as …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUNH_water-does-the-work_Burlington-ID.html
A powerful man-made jet of water blasted the mountainside?
?washing soil and loose rock downslope to fill in the trestle.
By 1911, the Milwaukee Road filled twenty-two temporary wooden trestles between St. Regis, Montana and Avery, Idaho. On…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUNG_mans-mark-on-the-land_Burlington-ID.html
If you stood on this spot with a railroad surveyor in 1906, you would have gazed across a lush patchwork forest of large trees. The super hot 1910 fires burned the valley below and for years afterward the area presented travelers with a bleak view…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUND_a-changing-landscape_Colby-ID.html
"Change is inevitable. Change is constant." Benjamin Disraeli
At the beginning of the 20th century, majestic western white pine, western larch and western red cedar, some over 400 years old, along with Douglas-fir and grand fir carpeted the Bit…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUNB_wintering-roland_Avery-ID.html
Bitterroot winters are frigid and long-lasting, with the snow staying on the ridges and packed into the draws and gullies well into the spring.
Roland and East Portal can receive up to a foot of snow an hour during a big storm. The snowpack can…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUNA_the-route-of-the-hiawatha_Avery-ID.html
Looking for the Right Route
In 1905, the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway began looking for a route for their western extension over the Bitterroot Mountains. After five and a half months, exploring 930 miles, the railroad chose a route over St. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUN9_beast-of-the-bitterroots_Avery-ID.html
It groaned,It growled,It Shrieked!
Turntable & Townsite
Roland, Idaho s started as a construction camp in 1906, housing men working on the west portion of the St. Paul Pass Tunnel. It evolved from a tent camp scattered along the right-of-way…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUN6_rough-tumble-camps_Saltese-ID.html
Primitive construction camps dotted the Bitterroot Mountains between 1906 and 1912.
Hardy colorful gangs of workers from around the globe called these bleak and often ugly temporary settlements home.
The hard work and disagreeable conditions…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUEB_history-of-lookout-pass_Mullan-ID.html
Lookout Pass is one of the original U.S. Ski areas. The area was first utilized by local Scandinavians who hopped off Northern Pacific freight cars to enjoy a day of alpine skiing at the Pass. A rope tow was installed in 1936 through use of parts …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI1Y_wallace_Wallace-ID.html
Founded as a mining town in 1884, Wallace became a railroad center in 1887 and the Shoshone County seat in 1898.
Rebuilt after a disastrous fire in 1890, Wallace has preserved its pioneer mining heritage. North Idaho's 2,000,000-acre forest fir…