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Rebirth of a Cokeville School – The Schoolhouse Inn
Cokeville’s Rural Schools From 1908 to 1918, homesteaders claimed large portions of the valley, and the school system struggled to educate the student-aged children in the outlying areas. But in the ensuing years, “many who had come seeking good farms… Read More >
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A Tale of Two Counties: the Mini-Cassia Area
South Central Idaho’s Magic Valley covers an immense area, stretching from Gooding, Jerome, Lincoln and Twin Falls counties in the west, across Minidoka and Cassia counties, nearly to American Falls in the east. Magic Valley is particularly associated with the… Read More >
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Visionary Frank Riblett- “The ‘Magician’ Of Magic Valley”
According to Wikipedia,”Magic Valley” refers to the early twentieth-century construction of Milner and Minidoka Dams and their series of irrigation canal systems on the Snake River, encompassing Blaine, Camas, Cassia, Gooding, Jerome, Lincoln, Minidoka and Twin Falls counties along the… Read More >
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Eugene Matthews and The Last of the Really Good $28.00 Cars
“Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.” One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” “What this country needs is a really good $28.00 car.” Wait a minute, who said anything about a $28.00 car? Just ask Eugene Matthews of… Read More >
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Early History of the Settlement of Lewiston
After Richmond was settled in 1859, Franklin in 1860, and Clarkston in 1864, “All the most desirable locations on the streams in Richmond and in the other settlements of the Valley, had been taken. Naturally (the new settlers) were forced… Read More >
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Smithfield Implement- A Legendary Smithfield Icon
We’ve all gone through the routine: You need an item, so you scurry all over town from one mass box store retailer to another, looking in vain. Despite their massive inventories, you can’t always find what you need when you… Read More >
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Early Days and an “April Fool’s Day” in Smithfield
The Mormon settlement of Wellsville established in 1856, then known as Maugham’s Fort, was the first permanent white settlement in Cache Valley. On May 6, 1859 John P. Wright, led a group of approximately thirty families from Fort Maughan, looking… Read More >
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LD’s Café History
When Richmond was settled in the mid-1850s, a locally-owned landmark business was still over a hundred years from being established. L.D.’s Café makes fascinating history live once more.Remnants of local history adorn L.D.’s dining area walls, including framed newspaper clippings,… Read More >
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Smithfield Lions Club & Smithfield Blue Sox
Smithfield has fielded a baseball team, known as the Blue Sox, continuously since the 1890s. For most of that time, the Blue Sox played as a semi-professional and college summer league entity. But in 1921, when the Northern Utah League,… Read More >
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Our Town’s Story: Richmond, UT
According to reports, Agrippa Cooper was the first white settler in Richmond, arriving in the mid-1850s. In 1859, surveyors visiting the Richmond determined it to be a suitable area for habitation. Since the area is blessed with an abundant water… Read More >
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