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Bear River Massacre Site
2953 U.S. 91, Preston, ID 83263
On January 29, 1863, Colonel Patrick E. Connor led a group of California Volunteers from Fort Douglas (Salt Lake City) in search of Shoshone Indians responsible for raids on settlers. The Indians had been pushed out of more and more of their lands in northern Utah, and some of them reacted by...
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Ezra Taft Benson Home and Gravesite
2003 East 800 South, Whitney, Idaho
Whitney was the boyhood home of Ezra Taft Benson who served as Secretary of Agriculture in the Eisenhower Administration, and as President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints from 1985 to 1994. The home in which he was raised and the red gambrel roofed barn sill stand on the...
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Franklin Relic Hall
111 East Main, Franklin, ID 83237
The village of Franklin is the oldest European-American settlement in Idaho, having been established in April, 1860 by Mormon pioneers moving northward from Utah. The Relic Hall, a museum of local history, is housed in a log building that was built as a museum in 1937 as homage to the log homes...
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Hatch House and Doney House
125 East Main, Franklin, ID 83237
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Oneida Stake Academy
90 E Oneida St, Preston, ID 83263
The Oneida Stake Academy was one of many schools founded by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It was started in 1888 in Frankiln, Idaho. When the time came in 1889 to build a building for the academy, Preston was chosen as the location because it...
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Shoshone Trail
Forest Road 1052, Preston, ID 83263
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Whitney, Idaho
1599 E 1400 S, Preston, ID 83263
Originally known as Hull's Crossing because of the placement of the Hull family farms, Whitney was settled by families from Franklin who had need of extra land for crops. Prior to the building of their homes in 1869, they planted the crops and started farming. In 1888, after the railroad came...
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Worm Creek Opera House
70 S State St, Preston, ID 83263