This is an addendum to an ED 574 qualitative research paper providing visual background information about what life was like in Valley County during the early pioneer days through the 1940's. The primary paper is a phenomenology research report exploring what it was like to attend and/or teach in early pioneer one-room schools in Valley County.
7. Long Valley Settlements
By early 1890‟s several towns developed in the
southern Long Valley
Among the first was
Crawford
Thunder City
Van Wyck
Arling
Roseberry
8. Southern Long Valley
Settlements
Each was a center of local commerce, a
source of community pride, and each
provided a network of social and
familial relationships.
A number of local mills supplied lumber
for the growing communities.
9. Settlements
Outside these small communities,
schools would double as community
centers and the rise of the Grange
afforded rural families with social
connections.
Land, water and timber from the
wilderness provided the raw material
for these rural communities.
10. Settlements - Van Wyck
Established in 1884 by Levi Kimball Family--Underwater by 1948
11. Settlements - Crawford
Crawford - on the Warm Lake Road
Existed until 1914 when it was all moved to Cascade
because of the railroad.
32. Transportation - Early Route to
Southern Long Valley
Prior to 1905 (No Google Maps) travel by wagon:
•East along the Payette River
•North through Sweet and Ola
•Up through High Valley
•Cross the Payette River at Smith‟s Ferry
•Over the hill to Round Valley or further north
to Long Valley on the east side of the river
33. Transportation - 1914
Railroad Route
to Southern Long Valley
As the Pacific and Idaho Northern tracks worked
their way up the Payette River Canyon in 1913 and
1914, businesses in Thunder City, Crawford,
VanWyck and Roseberry moved to the new towns of
Cascade and Donnelly which were located on the
rail line.
34. Transportation - Mail
Mail delivered to central distribution points like Cascade
had be delivered by dogsled in the winter to outlying
mining and timber camps.
Ultimately bush-flying services would carry the mail and
provide delivery services to the backcountry.
51. John Hasbrouck - Haying
Combines
“Only one person
would own a
combine, and
they would go to
the different
farms to cut the
grain. When they
came to your
place, you were
to feed the crew.”
~Marilyn Whitson
68. Indigenous
People
Centuries before Lewis and
Clark crossed northern Idaho,
what we now know as Long
Valley was once the summer
home of several tribal groups.
Long Valley was a point of
overlap for the traditional
territories of the Nez Perce to
the north, the Shoshone to the
southeast and the Paiute to the
southwest.
105. Photo Slide Credits
Photographs used by permission from the
following Valley County pioneer women:
Marilyn Kerby Callendar Whitson
Frances Kerby Coski
Eileen Scott Evans
Eleanor Morgan Manning
Donna Morgan Peterson