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Tag Archives: Idaho Falls

Idaho Falls, Idaho

06 Friday Jan 2017

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Bonneville County, Idaho, Idaho Falls

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  • Snake River Bridge

What became Idaho Falls was the site of Taylor’s Crossing on the Montana Trail which was a timber frame bridge built across the Snake River. The 1865 bridge was built by Matt Taylor who was a Montana Trail freighter who built a toll bridge across a narrow black basaltic gorge of the river that succeeded a ferry seven miles upstream by several years. Taylor’s bridge served the new tide of westward migration and travel in the region that followed the military suppression of Shoshone resistance at the Bear River Massacre near Preston, Idaho in 1863. The bridge improved travel for settlers moving north and west and also for miners, freighters, and others seeking riches in the gold fields of Idaho and Montana and especially the boom towns of Bannack and Virginia City in western Montana.

Snake River Bridge

29 Thursday May 2014

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Bonneville County, DUP, historic, Idaho, Idaho Falls

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Snake River Bridge

Erected May, 1953

On December 10, 1864 a franchise was granted to Edward M. Morgan, James M. ( Matt ) Taylor, and William F. Bartlett to operate a ferry one and one-half miles below Cedar Island and build a bridge over Snake River at Black Canyon. Mr. Taylor selected the bridge and in 1864-65 erected an 83 foot wooden span with solid rock anchorage on both sides. It was a modified Queens Truss type. This first bridge to cross Snake River was located 1320 feet south of this spot. A replica of the bridge tops this monument.
Bonneville County, Idaho

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