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On the afternoon of July 3, 1909, an unknown man entered Arnold's Cigar Store (located on Front Street, across from the Nampa Depot.) The shop had…
Four men operating a 24-horse-powered combine.
Preparation for 4th of July festivities.
Founded Ponderosa Paints and, 1946, also Nampa Paint and Glass.
The first Gowen home was next to Gowen Blacksmith. Arthur Gowen moved with his parents (Rev. Lewis and Mrs. Emma Gowen) from Maine to Boise in 1887…
Agnes was born in Nampa in 1895. Her father worked on the Nampa railroad and her husband worked as a janitor in a school, where she would occasionally…
A. C. Lillard purchased a homestead on the north side of Nampa in 1885, while working in the railroad shop in Shoshone. He took the train to work the…
Sara Elizabeth (mother), Victor (on lap), Vivian, Earl, Ruth (in back), Harry E. (father) and Kenneth
Nampa's town founder. In 1885 he took out a homestead on land where Nampa is now located.
We have little information about this early Nampa clothing store.
Ed Ware initially came to Idaho to be a school teacher, but later transitioned to working in general insurance, which would lead him to settle in…
S.B. Shellabarger established Nampa's first funeral chapel in 1907. April 8, 1911, F.K. Robinson bought the Funeral Chapel from Shellabarger, naming…