Boundary County Historical Society & Museum

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Notables

A Spiritual and Educational Leader

A Spiritual and Educational Leader

Mary Viley Hawkins Mary Viley Hawkins, daughter of William and Elizabeth Hawkins, was born April 15, 1876 on a tobacco plantation in Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky. The prominent Viley and Hawkins families had adjoining plantations breeding thoroughbred race horses and

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“Tappings from an Ancient Scribe”

“Tappings from an Ancient Scribe”

Laura Grace Bauman Laura Grace Bauman (pronounced “Bowman”) born on February 19, 1910 in Bonners Ferry, Idaho to Solomon and Florence Hoagland Bauman, grew up with two brothers, Everett “Bud” and Warren and one sister, Phyllis. Grace’s father bought the

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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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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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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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Find Us

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

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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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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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