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Bernard's Ferry is a historic site located on the Snake River north of Murphy off State Highway 78 in Owyhee County, Idaho. J.C. Bernard began operating a ferry at the site in 1884. He opened a road, utilizing the ferry, between mining town of Silver City and the Oregon Short Line railhead at Caldwell. A hotel and horse barn at this site were ...
Location of Boundary County in Idaho. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Boundary County, Idaho. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Boundary County, Idaho, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many ...
Crews worked to remove rock and debris from one of nine hillsides along the Idaho 55 highway project north of Smiths Ferry. Construction began in fall 2020 to widen and straighten the mile-long ...
Tetons and Snake River, Ansel Adams, 1942 This is a list of bridges and other crossings of the Snake River, from the Columbia River upstream to its sources. Headwaters of the North Fork are at Big Springs near Island Park, Idaho, while Jackson Lake is at the head of the South Fork.
The site was used as a river crossing until 1869 when Gus Glenn built a ferry across the river about 2 miles (3.2 km) upstream. [1] The land was deeded from the city of Glenns Ferry to the Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation in 1968 and was formally opened to the public as a state park in 1971.
The basic route of today's SH-78 from Marsing to Bruneau was in place as early as the mid-1930s, mostly as unimproved roads with a few all-weather gravel segments near Bruneau, Grand View and north of Murphy (a segment originally part of SH-45), and some paved segments near Marsing as of the 1937 map.
The reaction ferry uses the power of the river to tack across the current; the powered cable ferry uses engines or electric motors (e.g., the Canby Ferry in the U.S. State of Oregon) to wind itself across; or is hand-operated, such as the Stratford-upon-Avon chain ferry in the UK and the Saugatuck Chain Ferry in Saugatuck, Michigan, United States.