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Month: August 2018

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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First National Bank

First National Bank

This photo was shared with me from Melinda Brinkman. She wanted the history of the building, so here are the facts from Howard Kent.      The ground level building with basement was built in the spring of 1916, for the

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A. C. White Lumber’s Flunkies

A. C. White Lumber’s Flunkies

“In 1918, the A. C. White Lumber Co. established Camp 3, a large and very modern logging camp at a junction in their Camp 9 railroad. The location was the Cliff O’Malley place, across Highway 95 from the present H.

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Minerva Lovena Smith Fry

Minerva Lovena Smith Fry

Minerva Lovena Smith Fry Minerva Lovena Smith was born in Iowa on January 5, 1849 to Fredrick and Nancy Smith. The family left their home in April 1852, with dreams of a new life, and began the trek on the

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Megquier-Houck Museum Building

Megquier-Houck Museum Building

Original Press Release – – July 20, 2017 In the fall of 1916, Charles W. Megquier began construction on a two story brick building on Main Street. This was to be used as the new Crescent Garage & Plumbing Company.

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Chief Narcisse Isadore

Chief Narcisse Isadore

Chief Narcisse Isadore, born in 1882, was a great grandson of Chief Three Moon. Narcisse’s tribe, the Lower Kutenai, called home: “the horseshoe bend of the Kootenai River…the land I inherited from my ancestors situated on both banks of the

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Nurse Agnes Chadwick

Nurse Agnes Chadwick

  Agnes May Carleton was born on April 12, 1888 in South Berwick, Maine to Harvey and Annie Carleton. She and her three siblings attended school in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts. In 1911, Agnes graduated from Faulkner Hospital in Jamaica Plains,

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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


New Hours
Thursday—Saturday: 10:00AM–3:00PM

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

Upcoming Event!


First Free Saturday

Saturday, Aug 6, 2022

Step Back in Time at the Museum

Enjoy a complimentary journey back through time on a free admission day at the Boundary County Museum.

On this Saturday a friend of the Museum will sponsor the admission cost for everyone who comes to visit.

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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.

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