Quality Store Fire on Main Street in Rigby, March 26, 1926 | Jefferson County Historical Society Main Street in Rigby looking east, circa 1916. | Jefferson County Historical Societ…
RIGBY — It was a cold and windy Sunday morning nearly 100 years ago when one of Rigby’s most popular businesses was destroyed in a massive fire. It was 1926, the height…
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IONA — Cool fall air rustling the leaves on the tree-lined streets in this community is a stark contrast to when settlers arrived in 1883. Dense sagebrush rumored to be as ta…
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REXBURG — At the heart of Rexburg is Brigham Young University-Idaho, a seemingly ever-growing university that has defined and pushed the boundaries of growth in the Upper Val…
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ISLAND PARK — The official population of Island Park is around 300, but every year, tens of thousands of people drive through and visit the longest Main Street in America. Me…
SODA SPRINGS — The area where present-day Soda Springs is located has had many names. But its first name, the name the native Shoshone and Bannock tribes gave it, was Tosoiba…
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Early photo of Driggs | Teton Valley Museum Outlaw Ed Trafton, left, with his wife and kids | Teton Valley Museum Railroad day in Driggs | Teton Valley Museum RELATED | We are East…
DRIGGS — It was a sunny afternoon in July of 1914 when a caravan of 19 stagecoaches carrying 147 tourists entered Yellowstone National Park. The group consisted of wealthy ba…
