Benjamin P. Howells was just 12 years old when he came to the Oakley Valley in 1875. He had helped a man, P. M. Niles,…
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The First Presbyterian Church of Burley was organized in 1906. The town site company presented the church with its first plot of ground, which the…
J. C. Gaskill opened Burley Realty and Abstract in 1905. S. H. Kunau joined him in the early 1920s. They operated their business as Burley…
As farmers cleared their land of sagebrush, rabbits turned to the crops and young trees for food. To combat them, organized parties of farmers drove…
Before the Minidoka Dam was built, Peter August Peterson, a Swedish immigrant, built a water wheel to pull water from the Snake River. The water…
The Burley Flour Mills, started in 1909, was Burley’s first industry and Idaho’s largest flour mill at the time. The first manager of the mill…
The horse-drawn fire wagon — including a spray of water — prepares to whisk away the bride and groom in this 1920s photo. The crowd…
Residents of Idaho Falls, Ruth Ann Packer, Becky Packer and Lyn Packer (left to right) get an extra push from Berrett Packer while sledding in…
Floodwaters course down Broadway in Idaho Falls during the summer of 1976 in the aftermath of the Teton Dam burst. | Courtesy Janet Lewis EAST…
“The Idaho Falls Civic Auditorium was built in 1952 as part of the new Idaho Falls High School on Holmes Avenue. As the largest auditorium…