Cemetery Walks

Originally published – Bonners Ferry Herald – August 25, 2021 | By Rose Shababy – Staff Writer Boundary County Museum hosts a new cemetery walk   Susan Kemmis and Dottie Gray of the Boundary County Museum and Historical Society share

On a cold and blustery September 28, 2019, a group of hearty history buffs clad in scarves, mittens, and winter coats gathered and weathered nature for a two-hour cemetery tour. The cemetery chosen for this year was the ghost town

More than 120 years ago, in 1892, the U.S. Government conducted land surveys in the area we know as Copeland. At this time, this area was part of Kootenai County. In 1903, Caleb and Harriet Ames were living on 80

McArthur Cemetery Walk Though once a thriving village, McArthur didn’t last long. It had grown up quickly around William McArthur’s homestead and lumber mill at the turn of the last century. Before the disastrous fire of 1922, there sat along

“An Incredible History” Perched on a hill above what was once called Ockonook (“a grassy hillside with rocks”) at the very top of Boundary County lies a small cemetery with an incredible history dating back to 1898. Familiar historical names

“Mosquito Flats” was the site of the second “Stories in Stone” Historical Cemetery Tour. We gathered on Saturday, October 3, 2015 on the land which in 1903 Otis Collins donated for a church and a cemetery. Familiar family names such

Some might think a cemetery tour a little odd, but a tour of this Boundary County cemetery proved to be quite interesting and enlightening . . . On Saturday, October 4, thirty-two people gathered at the historic gates of Grandview