Category: Local History

Much of the Intermountain West was settled by homesteaders, who claimed their claims to land from the federal government in the late 1800s and early… Read More

In the fall of 1907 State Engineer D.W. Ross and other officials suddenly took note of the fact that the Southside pumping project was in… Read More

John Richard “Jack” Simplot, born in Dubuque, Iowa, January 4, 1909, was only a year old when he arrived with his family in Burley.  In… Read More

By 1942 the United States needed places to house German and Italian prisoners. Government officials  decided to construct prisoner-of-war camps in rural areas so that… Read More

“Anyone living in the United States during the mid-twentieth century would have heard about the African adventures of Tarzan. From the time the first story,… Read More

Grains and hay were the main crops on the Minidoka Project, as they were in other parts of Cassia County. In 1915 the alfalfa crop… Read More

Japanese-Americans from Washington and Oregon were sent to a center in Idaho. Officially named the Minidoka Relocation Center—a confusing name since it was located in… Read More

In 1872 a twenty-three-year-old plant breeder named Luther Burbank found a single seed ball growing on the vine of one of his Early Rose potatoes.… Read More

Synopsis of the book “A Flood Cannot Happen Here”, written by the book’s author, Kathleen Hedberg Most people in Cassia County were not worried about… Read More

For many years the old Y-Dell Bowling Alley operated at the intersection of present-day Highways 30 and 24 on Burley’s east side.  The Y-Dell was… Read More