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This is intended to be a complete list of the properties on the National Register of Historic Places in Gem County, Idaho, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map. [1]
Joan Rice (3 February 1930 – 1 January 1997) was an English film actress. [ 1 ] Rice is best known for her role as Dalabo in the film His Majesty O'Keefe (1954) which co-starred Burt Lancaster .
Emmett is a city in Gem County, Idaho, United States. The population was 6,557 at the 2010 census , up from 5,490 in 2000. [ 4 ] It is the county seat [ 5 ] and the only city in the county.
The Gem County Courthouse, located at the intersection of Main St. and McKinley Ave. in Emmett, serves Gem County, Idaho.The courthouse was built in 1938 to give the small county a government building, as it had been without one since the previous courthouse burned in 1920.
Letha was founded by W.W. Wilton and a Colonel Barnard and named for Wilton's daughter, Letha Wilton. It was built approximately midway along the railway running from Emmett to New Plymouth, Idaho, with anticipation that it would become a major rail center; although this never occurred, Letha today remains a service center for the adjacent farms and ranches.
Gem County is a county in the U.S. state of Idaho. As of the 2020 census, the population was 19,123. [1] The county seat and largest city is Emmett. [2] Gem County is part of the Boise, ID Metropolitan Statistical Area. Gem County is home to the Idaho ground squirrel.
The Idaho side of the railroad started out as the Idaho Northern Railway which was built starting in 1900 from Nampa, Idaho to Emmett, Idaho with the line later being extended in 1912 to 1914 to Smiths Ferry, Idaho and eventually McCall, Idaho. Separately from the Idaho Northern, in 1902 the Payette valley railroad built a 30-mile-long (48 km ...
The John C. Rice House is a 2-story, Queen Anne style house constructed in 1896 in the Washington Heights neighborhood, afterwards relocated to 2121 College Ave> of Caldwell, Idaho. [2] The house features an octagonal turret at the south end of a wraparound porch, a gable roof, and (originally) a lava rock foundation. [ 3 ]