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real estate: More Idaho Tidbits...
- 08/12/08 05:44 AM
*The Treasure Valley area around Nampa is known as Idaho's Banana Belt. *During the 1860s an Oregon Shoreline Railroad base camp called Boomerang was constructed in Payette. *Pocatello is home to Idaho State University. *Post Falls is known as Idaho's River City. *Saint Stanislaus Church, in Rathdrum, is the oldest brick church in the state of Idaho. *Rigby is known as the birthplace of television since it is Philo T. Farnsworth's hometown. Farnsworth pioneered television technology. *Under Idaho law only two forms of city government are allowed: a mayor/councilor or a council/manager form. *Shelley has been the home of the Idaho (1 comments)
real estate: 10 things you may not know about Idaho.
- 08/05/08 04:13 PM
1*The "Idaho Enterprise" published its first issue on June 6, 1879 and is one of the oldest weekly publications in Idaho. 2*President Theodore Roosevelt established the Caribou National Forest in 1907. The area now covers more than 1 million acres in southeast Idaho. 3*In 1924 local McCall resident and Olympic ski champion, Cory Engen, started the celebration known as the Winter Carnival to help curb the boredom of the long McCall winters. 4*Meridian is named for the Boise Meridian, the Idaho land surveyor's north-south line running through Initial Point, located 16 miles due south of the city. 5*Annually Mountain Home Air (0 comments)
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