Mount Idaho - Idaho Ghost Town

MOUNT IDAHO

NAME: Mount Idaho
COUNTY: Idaho
ROADS: 2WD
GRID: 2
CLIMATE: Cool winter and summer.
BEST TIME TO VISIT: Anytime.

COMMENTS: Just off the highway, see the cemetery.
REMAINS: Many original buildings and the cemetery.

Mount Idaho may have been the first in the State, or in the Country for that matter, to have a toll road. If so, it was built around 1860 by a Mose Milner and a partner. It was forty-five miles of pack train trail and collected tolls for its use. Because of permanent injuries suffered in a fight with a mountain lion, Milner was forced to sell his cabin, small hotel and the toll road. The purchaser was a Loyal P. Brown, the founder of the town of Mount Idaho. In fact, Brown owned the land upon which the town built. A post office was opened in 1862. A larger hotel was built in 1873 and a stage line was opened between Lewiston and Mount Idaho. The Nez Perce war started about 1875, a war between the settlers in the region and an Indian Chief known as Chief Joseph. Mount Idaho's hotel became the hospital and a doctor from Lewiston came along with several nurses. The dead were buried in Mount Idaho Cemetery which today is one of the town's most interesting sites. Submitted by Henry Chenowith.	Winter in Mount Idaho Courtesy George Hastings

Mount Idaho may have been the first in the State, or in the Country for that matter, to have a toll road. If so, it was built around 1860 by a Mose Milner and a partner. It was forty-five miles of pack train trail and collected tolls for its use. Because of permanent injuries suffered in a fight with a mountain lion, Milner was forced to sell his cabin, small hotel and the toll road. The purchaser was a Loyal P. Brown, the founder of the town of Mount Idaho. In fact, Brown owned the land upon which the town built. A post office was opened in 1862. A larger hotel was built in 1873 and a stage line was opened between Lewiston and Mount Idaho. The Nez Perce war started about 1875, a war between the settlers in the region and an Indian Chief known as Chief Joseph. Mount Idaho's hotel became the hospital and a doctor from Lewiston came along with several nurses. The dead were buried in Mount Idaho Cemetery which today is one of the town's most interesting sites. Submitted by Henry Chenowith.

Winter in Mount Idaho
Courtesy George Hastings

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