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McCalla Branch

26 Friday Apr 2024

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McCalla Branch

On 26 September 1937. the McCalla Branch of The Church Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints was organized under the direction of Elder Theron W. Borup at the James Wesley Brackner Home on this site. Approximately fifty people were present at this meeting. Twenty years prior to the organization of the McCalla Branch, Home Sunday School was held in this and other homes in this area. Near this site in the Hicks Spring Creek. baptisms were performed beginning in 1920.

The organization of this McCalla Branch of the Southern States Mission was the beginning of the rapid growth of the church In this area.

This monument stands as a reminder of the great faith and sacrifice of those early Saints and as an endearing symbol of the rich heritage that has blessed the lives of their posterity and which will continue for generations to come.

Marker placed in 1987 by the Bessemer First Ward of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in McCalla, Alabama.

“Annie’s Place” Annis

22 Wednesday Mar 2023

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“Annie’s Place” Annis

March 1879, the first of many hardy, courageous pioneers to settle here were Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Fisher and son Will, Mr. and Mrs Albert Richardson and Joseph Fisher and family. First white child born, H. J. Fisher 16 December 1879. First public building was a combined log post office and home of James and Anna Kearney. They forded “Dry Bed Channel” of Snake River to bring mail to their central place which became known as “Annie’s Place.” Kearneys applied for postal service in 1886 which was granted 1896 but with the name of Annis. Little Butte Cemetery’s first recorded burial, 1879. Brush Canal combined with Island Irrigation Co., 1886. C. A. Casper built a store, 1886 which included the millinery shop of Nancy Casper. Other firsts were: Little Butte School, 1894; Utah Idaho Sugar Co., 1908; Beet Dump by rail- road spur from Menan to Hawkins Grove, 1917.

This large bell hung in the belfry of Annis brick school building for sixty years, 1908-1968, calling children to school for many generations, season after season.

This is Daughters of Utah Pioneers historic marker #230 located at the Annis Little Butte Cemetery in Menan, Idaho.

These photos were provided by Marshall Hurst.


Lewisville

22 Wednesday Mar 2023

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Lewisville

In 1882 Richard F. Jardine, Edmund, Brigham, and John Ellsworth with their families founded Lewisville. It was named in honor of Lewis and Clark expedition and was one of the first settlements in the Snake River Valley. They cleared sagebrush, dug canals, fought mosquitoes and built humble homes. A log room served for church, school and recreation. A branch of the L.D.S. Church was established in 1883 and a ward organized Aug. 17, 1884. Richard F. Jardine Bishop, Don C. Walker Sunday School Supt., Charles Shurtliff first school teacher and Olive Goody first Postmistress.

This is Daughters of Utah Pioneers historic marker #230 located at 474 North 3450 East in Lewisville, Idaho.

These photos were provided by Marshall Hurst.

Rigby

22 Wednesday Mar 2023

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Rigby

In 1884 a group of Utah Mormons settled and pioneered this locality. They cleared sagebrush land, dug canals and erected humble log homes. They built a log room which was used for church, school and recreation. Daniel S. Robbins, a Veteran, was made Presiding Elder, and in his home, located two hundred yards from here, the town of Rigby was named in honor of William F. Rigby of the Latter-day Saints Stake Presidency. In the year 1886, George A. Cordon taught the first school.

This is Daughters of Utah Pioneers historic marker #106 located at Veterans Memorial Park at 305 South Veteran Memorial Drive in Rigby, Idaho.

These photos were provided by Marshall Hurst.

Bybee – Centerville

22 Wednesday Mar 2023

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Bybee – Centerville

Bybee-Centerville, also known as Sayer, was located between Lewisville and Rigby, the Drybed Channel of the Snake River (Great Feeder Canal) and the Burgess Canal. It was settled 1883-84 by John A. Cuthbert, Alexander Kinghorn, Dan Adams, William Briggs, Neil Gilchrist, Owen Sayer, Joseph W. Jones, Henry M. Harmon, Arthur Goody and their families. Wagon boxes and tents were their first homes. John Cuthbert’s well was dug May 1884. Center School built 1895 on land donated by Eli Campbell. 1900, post office established in cabin of Owen Sayer, first postmaster. Other firsts were: Mary Boram’s general store and millinery shop, Kinghorn Brothers brick kilns, Oregon Short Line Railroad Spur, Parks and Lewisville Irrigation System. A branch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints formed in 1900, Erastus Walker Presiding Elder; organized into Bybee Ward in 1908.

This is Daughters of Utah Pioneers historic marker #427 located at the LDS Church at 401 West 1st Street in Rigby, Idaho.

These photos were provided by Marshall Hurst.

Pooles Island – Menan

22 Wednesday Mar 2023

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Pooles Island – Menan

Pooles Island, first settled 1879 by members of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, John R. Poole, Presiding Elder. Cedar Butte Ward organized 1884, Robert L. Bybee, Bishop. Long Island Canal water right decreed 1880; school began 1881; Susie P. Lawson, Teacher; Townsite surveyed 1883; Grist Mill 1894; Pioneer merchant, C. A. Smith, Sr. Postoffice established 1885, changed Cedar Butte name to Menan, Indian word for Island. Francis M. Bybee, Postmaster.

This is Daughters of Utah Pioneers historic marker #378 located at the Menan Idaho Red Brick Church at 3547 East Menan Lorenzo Highway in Menan, Idaho.

These photos were provided by Marshall Hurst.

The Great Feeder

21 Tuesday Mar 2023

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The Great Feeder

The Snake River shifted to the north bypassing the South Channel or Dry Bed and left canals along this route without water during most of the summer of 1894. The Great Feeder Headgate and Canal were built in the years 1894 and 1895 to supply water to the Upper Snake River Valley. The system included twenty major canals and ditches delivering irrigation water for one hundred thousand acres of farmland. The Great Feeder was dug, and other channels closed off, by men using teams of horses. An entire small mountain, known as Kelley Rock and located east of Heise Hot Springs, was used in the construction of this huge dam. The Great Feeder, located five miles northeast of Ririe, was dedicated June 22, 1895.

The Dry Bed supplies many irrigation ditches between the Great Feeder and the town of Roberts where it again joins the Snake River. Because of the Great Feeder, the city of Ririe has become an important grain and potato center.

This is Daughters of Utah Pioneers historic marker #453 located at the Ririe City Hall at 464 Main Street in Ririe, Idaho.

These photos were provided by Marshall Hurst.