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Eagle Rock Ferry
Location
of sign - Interstate 15 Exit 118 in Idaho
Photo
taken- June 2008
Text
of sign:
Eagle Rock Ferry
On
June 20, 1863, Bill Hickman started a ferry 9 miles up Snake River
for thousands of gold hunters headed for mines that now
are
in Montana.
Named
for an eagle that had a nest on a rock there, this ferry flourished
until James Madison Taylor replaced it two years later with
a
bridge across a narrow lava gorge here. Idaho Falls eventually grew
up around Taylor’s bridge.
Text
prepared by the Idaho Historical Society Marker made &
installed by Idaho Transportation Department.
Graphics
on the sign - In addition to the text there is a map of Idaho
with the signs location marked and the notation that this is
sign
number 224.
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