Coulam, Franklin County, ID

    Coulam, Franklin County, ID

    • Established:  First time the stop was published as a stop on Oregon Short Line Railroad was 1914
    • Origin of Name: Named for H. Coulam, General Agent for Oregon Shortline Railroad in Butte, Montana
    • Original Name: Banida, but when Robert C. Geddes obtained permission to erect a rail siding and grain elevator there, the railroad renamed the stop Coulam
    • Historic Overview: Rail station on the Oregon Short Line Railroad (later Union Pacific RR) between Logan and Pocatello; once had a business center, homes, a lumber store, a general store, an implement house, blacksmith shop and other businesses; but prosperity only lasted about ten years; a grain elevator and a few foundations are all that remains of the town today 
    • Location: 13.5 miles (15 minutes) northwest of Preston, past Banida, on Hwy 91 N 
    • No population estimate for this rural Franklin County community

      Source: “The Blazer Trail, Early History of Franklin County, Idaho; third edition, Daughters of Utah Pioneers, compiled by Alexis Champneys Beckstead

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