Bannock County Towns
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Bannock County
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Pocatello
The city of
Pocatello, so named in memory of an Indian chief, stands
at the western entrance to the Portneuf canyon, and for
that reason is appropriately known as the "Gate City."
The city is the metropolis and county seat of Bannock
County, and the second largest place in the state of
Idaho.
Pocatello is pre-eminently a railroad town, and to the
railroad she owes her birth as well as her growth. When
the westward course of the Oregon Short Line crossed the
tracks of the Utah & Northern railroad, some fifty miles
south of Idaho Falls, then called Eagle Rock, a hamlet
naturally sprang up at the junction.
United States government purchased two thousand acres of
reservation land from the Indians, to be used as a
town-site. This was surveyed in 1889, and the following
year lots were sold at auction at prices ranging from
ten to fifty dollars. At that sale the foundation of
many comfortable fortunes of today were made.
The community was organized into a village during this
year, with H. L. Becraft as chairman of the board of
trustees, and D. K. Williams, A. F. Caldwell, L. A. West
and Doctor Davis members. Another tract of reservation
land was opened for settlement in 1905. See History of
Bannock County Idaho
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Chubbuck City
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Downey City
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Lava Hot
Springs
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McCammon City
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Cambridge
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Robin
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Arimo
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Swan Lake, Wikipedia
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Virginia
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Inkom, Wikipedia
Bannock County
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