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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AES_lewistons-chinese-community_Lewiston-ID.html
The discovery of gold in 1860 and the founding of Lewiston in 1861 attracted many Chinese to the area.
By 1870 approximately 1500 Chinese lived here. They worked as merchants, laborers, laundrymen and vegetable farmers. Exhausted gold fields, re…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AEQ_tsceminicum_Lewiston-ID.html
When the Nez Perce named this site, they viewed a desolate yet beautiful landscape.
Near a large island at the confluence, crystal waters from the Clearwater joined the murky flow of the Snake. Scattered willows grew along the broad river ban…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2A68_ant-yellowjacket_Lewiston-ID.html
According to a Nez Perce Indian legend the stone arch up the hill was once two fighting insects.
Ant and Yellowjacket had an argument and came to blows over who had the right to eat dried salmon here. Fighting fiercely, they failed to notice Co…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2A66_ant-yellowjacket_Lewiston-ID.html
The basalt arch on the hillside across the road depicts támsoy ka・?alatálo, insects Ant and Yellowjacket, locked in combat. Many features in this river valley relate to nimi・pu・ (Nez Perce) traditional stories. Here the Ant …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23C0_fishing-in-the-river_Lewiston-ID.html
"This river is remarkably clear and crowded with salmon in maney places...
Salmon may be seen at the depth of 15 or 20 feet...
The number...
Is remarkable to say."
~Captain Wm. Clark
The Nimi'ipuu relied upon the fish of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23BZ_writings-on-the-river_Lewiston-ID.html
Petroglyphs
The earliest 'writings' along the Snake River were petroglyphs carved into the rocks.
At the Buffalo Eddy and Captain John sites, located 20 miles upriver from here, some of the petroglyphs are four to six thousand years old.
Many…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23B2_a-man-and-his-island-dream_Lewiston-ID.html
The Corps of Discovery reached the confluence of the Snake and Clearwater Rivers on October 10, 1805.
In his map of the site, William Clark included a small island he observed "at the point of union" of the channels.
The island appeare…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23B0_traveling-on-the-river_Lewiston-ID.html
"...one canoe in which Sergt. Gass was Stearing
And was nearle turning over, she Sprung
A leak or Split open on one side and
Bottom filled with water & Sunk on the rapid..."
~Captain Wm. Clark,
October 8, 1805
Dugout…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23A1_dwellings-by-the-river_Lewiston-ID.html
No Tents?
By the time members of the Lewis & Clark Expedition reached the Snake River, their night-time shelter consisted of buffalo robes and other skins.
They left St. Louis with tents of oiled canvas, but by the summer of 1805, those had r…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23A0_a-confluence-of-rivers-steam_Lewiston-ID.html
Piloted by Ephraim W. Baughman, the Colonel Wright was the first sternwheeler to ascend the Snake River to its junction with the Clearwater.
After the strong current snapped the boat's tow line at Big Eddy (present-day Lenore), the Oregon Steam N…