- Bannock County, County Site
- History of Bannock County (many names here)
- Bannock County
- Bannock County, Census Bureau
- 1895 Bannock County Map, Mardos Memorial Library
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
- History of Pocatello (many names here)
- Bannock County Historical Museum
- Idaho State University
Chubbuck City
Downey City
- City of Downey
- History of Bannock County, use search for Downey
Lava Hot Springs
McCammon City
- History of Bannock County, use search for McCammon
Cambridge
Arimo
Robin
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