Wallace, Idaho Wallace, Idaho Buildings in Wallace's historic precinct Buildings in Wallace's historic precinct Location of Wallace, Idaho Location of Wallace, Idaho Wallace, Idaho is positioned in the US Wallace, Idaho - Wallace, Idaho Wallace is a historic town/city in the Panhandle region of the U.S.
State of Idaho and the governmental center of county of Shoshone County in the Silver Valley quarrying district.
Wallace sits alongside the South Fork of the Coeur d'Alene River (and Interstate 90) and the town's populace was 784 at the 2010 census.
Wallace is the principal town of the Coeur d'Alene silver-mining district, which produced more silver than any other quarrying precinct in the United States.
East of Wallace, the Route of the Hiawatha (rails-to-trails) and the Lookout Pass ski region are prominent with locals and tourists.
1.3 Wallace Grows Wallace came into being on a river plain where four streams and five canyons converge onto the course of the South Fork.
After a several years of searching, he finally found pay-dirt on a stream about twelve miles north of the future Wallace in the spring of 1882.
Wallace assembled a cabin at a site he called "Placer Center." A Civil War veteran, Wallace was heavily involved in quarrying ventures after the war. The spot's central locale in the quarrying precinct clearly offered promise as a town site.
Wallace believed in his new venture and invested cash to build access roads, put up lot fences and make other improvements.
Wallace and Richard Lockey bought "Sioux half-breed scrip" from a bank in Spokane, Washington to purchase an 80-acre (32 ha) town site that would turn into the town of Wallace. Such scrip entitled the holder to "locate" (claim) unoccupied and unsurveyed enhance lands.
Wallace's application for a territory patent to secure title to the townsite was submitted to the General Land Office (GLO) in Coeur d'Alene on June 5, 1886. For this reason, the GLO denied Wallace's application, in a letter dated February 3, 1887.
Wallace and his Wallace Townsite Company continued to sell properties (lots) because the Coeur d'Alene territory officer had advised them that they could do so.
In fact, the officer said he would act as Wallace's attorney if a dispute arose. Neither the Company nor Col.
Wallace informed potential or actual buyers that their patent on the townsite was uncertain. On September 10, 1887, a narrow gauge rail line reached Wallace, dominant to further growth.
Wallace was appointed one of the five trustees of the new town. But by February 19, 1889, reports had appeared in Wallace of a case involving disputed Sioux half-breed scrip.
In Wallace, the news of the case led many townspeople--on the evening of Tuesday, February 19, 1889--to participate in "lot jumping," that is, peremptorily marking the space as their own.
Wallace reacted to the jumping with an angry letter, partially quoted above to describe what the business considered improper action by the GLO.
The letter closed, "The higher courts will ere long decide the validity of the claimants." With this letter and a several others, Wallace took the stance of an aggrieved party in relation to the GLO's handling of the Sioux scrip.
It has been documented that the under-staffed and poorly-run GLO was indeed involved in corrupt dealings at that time. Continuing their aggressive stance, the Wallace Townsite Company filed 13 legal suits, demanding $1,000 from people it claimed had illegally jumped their properties.
Wallace had opened an office in Spokane to pursue quarrying ventures in the West. The pressure finally sparked the Coeur d'Alene, Idaho workforce strike of 1892, which ended in a union victory.
The immediate costs were three men dead on each side and the total destruction of the Frisco ore mill, about four miles northeast of Wallace.
An armed mob attacked the replacement workers as they waited for river transport out to Coeur d'Alene City. No evidence was found that the union leadership sanctioned this brutality, but reports to Idaho Governor Willey said that a dozen bullet-riddled bodies had been found. Martial law was declared and lasted about four months, but none of the charges brought by authorities were upheld.
It again began among the miners working northeast of Wallace.
During the Coeur d'Alene, Idaho workforce tumultuous of 1899 attackers murdered a non-union miner and killed one of their own by "friendly fire." Wallace Grows In 1893, Wallace went from governance by a Board of Trustees to a town/city charter.
Haskins, who would shortly after that be appointed as Idaho's first State Mining Inspector. Haskins was succeeded by Oscar Wallace, son of Colonel Wallace. By that year, Wallace could also boast of the Providence Hospital, "an institution which has no equal of its kind in the state of Idaho, and no superior of its size in the United States." A similar attempt six years earlier had left Wallace a distant third to Murray.
This time around, Wallace garnered about three-quarters of the votes cast.
The year 1900 saw Wallace inhabitants looking forward to even more expansion from its populace of over two thousand.
Wallace after the Great Fire of 1910 However, one third of the town of Wallace was finished by the Great Fire of 1910, which burned about 3,000,000 acres (12,141 km2; 4,688 sq mi) in Washington, Idaho, and Montana. Although set back by the devastation, the town/city soon resumed its growth, aided by strong demand for lead amid World War I. After a post-war lull, the trade resumed its expansion in the 1920s. When the Bunker Hill smelter in Kellogg shut down in 1981, the Silver Valley lost a vast number of jobs, three-quarters of all the county-wide quarrying employment by some estimates. Wallace suffered huge cutbacks just like all the other suburbs in the area.
Only the Lucky Friday mine, positioned about seven miles east of Wallace, near Mullan, remains in operation at this time.
Through the reconstructionof mine closures, Wallace had troubles of its own.
Then town/city leaders in Wallace learned that plans for Interstate 90 in Idaho would virtually wipe out the entire downtown.
But the key event occurred in 1979, when a several blocks of downtown Wallace were listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district, the Wallace Historic District. The Wallace Chamber of Commerce lists over a dozen attractions in Wallace itself or inside easy driving distance.
Wallace is positioned at 47 28 23 N 115 55 30 W (47.472923, 115.924935). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 0.84 square miles (2.18 km2), all of it land. Wallace has a continental Mediterranean climate (Koppen Dsb) with warm summers and cold, snowy winters.
The coldest month since records began in 1941 has been January 1949 with an average of 10.5 F or 11.9 C; the hottest has been July 2007 with a daily mean of 73.2 F or 22.9 C and a mean maximum of 91.1 F or 32.8 C.
Climate data for Wallace Woodland Park (1971 2000) In the city, the populace was spread out with 22.9% under the age of 18, 6.8% from 18 to 24, 28.4% from 25 to 44, 25.8% from 45 to 64, and 16.0% who were 65 years of age or older.
Downtown Wallace around 1956, old postcard Downtown Wallace with I-90 visible on the bridge at the back Wallace is accessible via Interstate 90, State Highway 4.
In its prime, two barns s served Wallace.
(Union Pacific) reached Wallace from the west, offering passenger service to Spokane and Portland until about 1958, and freight service to Spokane as late as 1992.
The Northern Pacific Railway approached Wallace from the east with its branch over Lookout Pass to the NP mainline at St.
This trail runs from east of Mullan, through Wallace, to the Washington-Idaho state line west of Plummer. At its nearest point, this trail is at least 15 miles distant from Wallace.
However, Wallace is its nearest large community, and as such advertises itself as the major jumping off point for trail users.
Interstate 90 passes through Wallace on an elevated freeway viaduct assembled in 1991.
Wallace had the last traffic light on a coast-to-coast Interstate highway, a fact that is displayed on signage in downtown Wallace proclaiming it to be "The Last Stoplight".
Prior to this the interstate turned into arterial streets on the outskirts of town and followed the chief road through town before becoming a highway again on Wallace's east side.
A several days later it was to be put back into operation. The section of US 10 through Wallace is now designated Interstate 90 Business.
This plan would have completed most of downtown Wallace.
In the 1970s, town/city leaders undertook an accomplishment to list downtown on the National Register of Historic Places with the result that now every building in downtown Wallace is on the National Register of Historic Places.
The 1997 film Dante's Peak was shot on locale in Wallace, which was portrayed as the fictional town "Dante's Peak" in Washington state, with a large hill just southeast of the town digitally altered to look like a volcano.
Many scenes involving townspeople, including the initial award ceremony, the pioneer days festival, and the gymnasium scene were shot using the actual people of Wallace as extras.
Many of the disaster evacuation scenes that did not involve stunts and other dangerous moments also featured people of Wallace; dangerous stunts were filmed using Hollywood extras. On September 25, 2004, Mayor Ron Garitone proclaimed Wallace to be the center of the Universe.
Wallace, Idaho." This prompted British comedian and writer Danny Wallace to visit Wallace.
He wrote about his visit in the book Danny Wallace and the Centre of the Universe, presented in 2006.
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