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Stories in Stone 2020

Stories in Stone 2020

The Boundary County Historical Society and Museum Cemetery Tours have become an annual off-site event. 2020 was to be the seventh in the series. Each year, Sue Kemmis, Museum Curator, and volunteers begin weeks in advance researching, gathering information, piecing

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Logging in Boundary County

Logging in Boundary County

Until you have a chance to come into the Museum to see the Historical Society’s collection of logging tools,  here are a few photos from the archives of Bonners Ferry area logging activities.      

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TR Visits Bonners Ferry

TR Visits Bonners Ferry

Until you have a chance to come in and see the Museum’s Teddy Roosevelt Caribou Display in person,  a “virtual” version has been created to enjoy in the form of a “FlipBook”!   In September of 1888, 29 year old

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“Where We Gather” ~ The Boundary County Fair

“Where We Gather” ~ The Boundary County Fair

Museum Musings: Origins of the County Fair By: Gini Woodward   One of the oldest county events is replaying this week, the Boundary County Fair. True to the tradition, it is “Where We Gather,” and have for nearly one hundred

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Bernt William Tilly

Bernt William Tilly

The story of the Tilly Mine is a favorite with the locals of Boundary County. Bernt William Tilly born May 24, 1906 in Farstorp, Sweden, had three brothers and three sisters. While his siblings, all married with children, remained in

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An “Old-Time Party” in 1911

An “Old-Time Party” in 1911

Mesdames Kinnear and Bishop Entertain Pioneers About twenty-five ladies whose residence in Bonners Ferry began between 1877 and 1897 were entertained at an “old time party” Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. W. L. Kinnear. Mrs. T. A. Bishop

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Remembrances by Lawrence R. Unruh

Remembrances by Lawrence R. Unruh

“My parents, Odes B. and Sadie Jantz Unruh, came to Bonners Ferry in 1936 when I, their eldest son, Lawrence , was twelve years old, exchanging the nightmare of dust clouds on the horizon for the quiet, unmoving outline of

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Boundary Logging Camps

Boundary Logging Camps

One of the commodities transported by the railroads from Boundary County over the years is timber products. In earlier years, logging camps were common. “Huge stands of virgin timber in Boundary County have provided jobs for many men throughout the

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Pharmacist J.F. Cook

Pharmacist J.F. Cook

John Francis Cook III, an African American, attended Howard University a private, historically black university in Washington, D.C. obtaining a degree in Pharmacology in 1888. In 1892, J.F. Cook arrived in Bonners Ferry on the Great Northern Railway. He quickly

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Captain Wooden Recalls Early Days

Captain Wooden Recalls Early Days

A letter written to the Editor and Publisher, S. D. Taylor, of the Bonners Ferry Herald, written by Bartlett Sinclair Recalls Early Days Stiles, Idaho, Oct. 22nd, 1908. My Dear Taylor; — My campaigning brought me to this bustling mountain

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Boundary County Historical Society & Museum

7229 Main Street
PO Box 808
Bonners Ferry, Idaho 83805
208-267-7720 bcmuseum@meadowcrk.com

Museum Temporarily Closed Until Further Notice


Summer Hours May- September
Monday—Saturday: 10:00AM–4:00PM
Winter Hours October – April
Friday & Saturday: 10:00AM–4:00PM

$2 per visitor or $5 per family
BCHS members and those 14 yrs old and under are free

Come on Down!

What are you waiting for? Come on down to the Museum and see what has changed! It is no longer the one room you remember, it is three rooms full of excitement! New things to see every day because once today becomes yesterday it also becomes history.

White Caribou Gift Shop

To help support our Museum
we maintain a small gift shop.

Click HERE to see our White Caribou Gift Shop Page and see some of what we have to offer!

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