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New Fort Boise, 2018. Fort Boise is either of two different locations in the Western United States, both in southwestern Idaho.The first was a Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) trading post near the Snake River on what is now the Oregon border (in present-day Canyon County, Idaho), dating from the era when Idaho was included in the British fur company's Columbia District.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Boise, ... Fort Boise established by United States Army. [3] [4] ... Idaho Black History Museum built ...
This timeline is a chronology of significant events in the history of the U.S. State of Idaho and the historical area now occupied by the state. 2000s 1900s 1800s Statehood Territory 1700s 1600s 1500s Before 1492
Fort Boise, at the site of the city of Boise was founded on July 3, 1863. Old Fort Boise near the present day city of Parma was a French-Canadian fur trading post (thus where the name Boise comes from) and was built by the Hudson's Bay Company in 1834. It became one with the Snake River in 1854, and although the French began to rebuild, they ...
Oldest surviving building of Fort Boise. Fort Boise Surgeons Quarters: Boise: 1864 [5] Officers Quarters Includes an 1880 brick add-on. Cyrus Jacobs House: Boise: 1864 [6] House Oldest surviving brick building in Boise Rock Creek Store: Rock Creek: 1865 [7] Store Built for the Rock Creek stage stop, which was the largest stage stop between Fort ...
The Shoshone-Paiute reservation is south of Boise, straddling the Idaho-Nevada state line. ... according to Boise Arts and History Department Director Jennifer Stevens, who spoke at a City Council ...
Mall craze comes to Boise. From 1965 to the mid-1980s, the Boise Redevelopment Agency — later rebranded as the Capital City Development Corp. — planned to level most of the buildings within ...
In the 1870s, Boise (to which Idaho's capital was moved in 1866) expanded rapidly as growth slowed in Lewiston. Gold drew more than 25,000 prospectors to the Boise Valley, and a new city quickly grew around the U.S. Army post at Fort Boise. [127] [128] With Hells Canyon impractical for river navigation, interest grew in connecting the area by rail.