Main Street

Original Vintage Card
  
 Price: $4.00

Stock #:627604
Type: Postcard
Era: Chrome
City: Elk City
State: Idaho (ID)
County: Idaho
Publisher: Ross Hall Scenics
Postmark: 1976 Aug-6
Postmark City: Grangeville
Postmark State: ID
Stamp: 9c
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

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Lumber and recreation town, with a colorful history, is situated 60 miles east of Grangeville, Idaho. Twenty-two prospectors from Pierce discovered the Elk City Mines in May 1861, and a Gold Rush followed that summer. Permanent log buildings were begun August 6 and within a month about 40 stores, saloons, and cabins were ready for winter use. Most of the miners rushed off to other new bonanzas that fall, but Elk City still became one of the important Idaho Gold Camps.

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