From the Archives - July 23, 2020
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Photo courtesy BOUNDARY COUNTY MUSEUM The Boundary County Museum shared this photograph of George Irving with his 1954 pig.
George Irving enjoyed raising several pigs for 4-H. Here he is with his 1954 pig. What a ‘big pig!”
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From the Archives - Aug. 27, 2020
The Kutenai Indians (Kootenai Tribe of Idaho) settled in the Kootenai Valley. The people moved about, to different encampments, depending on the level of the Kootenai River. When leaving a camp, large stone tools were left at the site for use when the people returned. Many men and women carried with them the smaller tools they needed for daily activities.
From the Archives - Aug. 6, 2020
This very large, heavy, leather hardcover book titled “An Illustrated History of North Idaho Embracing Nez Perces, Idaho, Latah, Kootenai, and Shoshone Counties in State of Idaho” was published by Western Historical Publishing Company in 1903.
From the Archives - July 30, 2020
Holger George Thuesen and Gerald A. Hale (engineering professors at Oklahoma State University) designed the first working parking meter, the Black Maria, in 1935. They began working on the parking meter in 1933 at the request Carl C. Magee, a lawyer and newspaper publisher in Oklahoma City, Okla. Magee wanted to “instill some order to the chaos of street parking.”