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The United States Bureau of Reclamation began working on the Deer Flat Reservoir in 1906. The project was completed in 1909. Initially, the water…
November 6, 1885, J. M. Stewart and James A. McGee (both original members of Nampa's Townsite Company) obtained water rights to build a canal for the…
In 1891, coinciding the year Nampa was incorporated, Lake Ethel was the first reservoir formed to provide Nampa residents with irrigation water. The…
James McGee who moved from Pennsylvania to Caldwell, Idaho in the early 1880s, encouraged Alexander Duffes to establish a new town nearby. November…
Nampa's northside
Clyde was a lifelong farmer in Nampa. He discusses the various crops he grew over the years, challenges including droughts and coyotes, and how…
Ridenbaugh inherited the Morris Ditch in 1877. Water reached Nampa in Ridenbaugh Ditch in 1892.
Robert J. Brown discusses growing up in Nampa in the 1930s and onward. As well as a number of businesses in Nampa at the time, including the Majestic…
Two men operating a steam weighed tractor pulling a concrete roller, used to compact material placed in the Deer Flat Reservoir Embankment.
The…
John Brandt, born in Nampa in 1904, recalls his childhood and what life was like in early Nampa.