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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEYW_the-oregon-trail_Boise-ID.html
The Oregon Trail is still clearly visible coming off the rimrock across the river. Here the west bound emigrants after 1840 came gratefully down into this green valley.
The first cart passed here with Spalding and Whitman, pioneer missionaries,…
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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEY0_grimes-creek_Boise-ID.html
Named for George Grimes who, with Moses Splawn, led the party which on August 2, 1862 made the strike that started the Boise basin gold rush.
The party was searching for a rich basin described to Splawn a year earlier by an Indian. Farther up …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEXZ_the-old-toll-road_Boise-ID.html
The Old Toll Road to Idaho City crossed the ridge from Boise through the lowest point you can see in the skyline across the valley.
Climbing the More's creek canyon wall, it crossed this highway about here and swung north. The road was built an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEXX_arrowrock-dam_Boise-ID.html
Higher than any other dam from 1915 until 1934, Arrowrock Dam still is an essential part of Boise Valley's irrigation system.
Located six miles upstream from here, Arrowrock is 350 feet high and 1,150 feet wide. Built at a cost of $4,725,000 to…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEXV_mores-creek_Boise-ID.html
More's Creek is named for J. Marion More, leader of the party of miners who founded Idaho City, October 7, 1862.
Like most of Idaho's early miners, he came originally from the South. Unlike most of them, he struck it rich. During the Idaho gol…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEXN_diversion-dam_Boise-ID.html
Diversion Dam was completed in 1909 to lift water into an already constructed New York canal system, greatly expanding its irrigated farmlands.
After a quarter century of failure to dig a large canal above Diversion Dam, United States Reclamati…