Postcards
Boise County | |
 George Grimes, Discoverer of Gold in Boise Basin - 1862, killed by hostile Indians day of discovery |
 The Hanging of Herman St'Clair at Idaho City, Idaho, June 14, 1898 - |
 Boise County Jail and Territorial Penitentiary at Idaho City, Idaho, April 1908. John Leary, Sheriff, with two prisoners handcuffed at the gate - "The roots of corrections are in Idaho City and Lewiston. The territorial legislature designated the two cities jails as territorial prisons in 1864. During the eight years the jails served the territory, they housed approximately 100 inmates. The majority of inmates were in Idaho City. Much of the original Idaho City territorial prison fell into Elk Creek when gold diggers undermined the area in the early 1900s." - https://www.idoc.idaho.gov/content/about_us/history | |
 Lowman Inn 1949 | |
> S. Fork Payette 1949 |
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