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In 1910, the Idaho State School and Hospital was built northwest of Nampa for the state's developmentally challenged population. It opened in 1918.…
William Bryan was an attorney from Salem Illinois. He won the election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1890 and served until 1895. He was a…
The first Sunny Ridge School was built in 1917 as a two-room building. One room held grades 1-4, the other, grades 5-8.
Sunny Ridge joined the…
Nampa school's enrollment began to exceed capacity. In December 1918, the burgeoning enrollment reached 1,881. The board inaugurated a bungalow…
In 1913, Eugene Emerson of Nampa attended a general meeting of the Idaho-Oregon District of the Nazarene Church where an education committee…
The early Nampa Schools held all grades. The first Nampa High graduation was held on May 28, l903, at the beautiful Dewey Palace Hotel.
The high…
A two-story brick building completed in 1912 with approximately 100 students enrolled.
The name is said to have come from the sole cottonwood tree…
An L-shaped brick building completed in 1950. Lincoln School had 13 rooms and was the only grade-school with a full-sized gymnasium in Nampa, that…
Lakeview School, located near Lake Ethel, opened in 1892.
In 2015, Idaho Arts Charter School added 2 additional wings to the building and updated…
A 1901 bond election allowed for the construction of an $8,000 brick school named Kenwood. The structure was expanded several times, including 1905…
Named for J. F. Bow, who cut the site out of a 160-acre plot he had carved from the sagebrush in 1911, Bowmont was along the Boise Nampa Owyhee ( BNO)…
In 1913, Nampans began hosting a Harvest Festival in September each year which included rodeo events. This continued for a couple dozen years until…
In 1913, Nampans began hosting a Harvest Festival in September each year which included rodeo events. This continued for a couple dozen years until…
The United States Bureau of Reclamation began working on the Deer Flat Reservoir in 1906. The project was completed in 1909. Initially, the water…