List of National Historic Landmarks in Idaho

This complete list of Idaho National Historic Landmarks names the 10 sites that are listed as National Historic Landmarks (NHL) in the state of Idaho and are under the supervision of the National Park Service . These document events from the Lewis and Clark expedition to the beginnings of nuclear power . The sites are listed by their official designations on the National Register of Historic Places .

Legend

NHL	National Historic Landmark
NHP	National Historical Park
NHS	National Historic Site

Overview

	Name of the site	image	year	place	county	description
1	Assay Office		0May 5, 1961	Boise	Ada	The Assay Office was built by the federal government in 1870/71 and was in operation from 1872 to 1933. It symbolizes the importance of mining in the history of Idaho and the American West.
2	Bear River Massacre Site		June 21, 1990	Preston	Franklin	Site where volunteers from California attacked a group of Shoshone on January 29, 1863 . The Bear River Massacre claimed the lives of 300 Shoshone and 14 soldiers.
3	Camas Meadows Battle Sites		April 11, 1989	Kilgore	Clark	Locations of the Battle of Camas Creek where the Nez Percé were able to further evade capture.
4th	Cataldo Mission		04th July 1961	Cataldo 47 ° 32 ′ 55.1 ″  N , 116 ° 21 ′ 30 ″  W.	Kootenai	This Jesuit mission from the 1850s is the oldest surviving mission church in the Pacific Northwest . It served the efforts to convert the Coeur d'Alene .
5	City of Rocks		July 19, 1964	Almo 42 ° 4 ′ 33 ″  N , 113 ° 42 ′ 52 ″  W.	Cassia	Thousands of emigrants on the California Trail made this a popular rest stop, leaving wagon tracks that are still visible today. The landscape, consisting of free-standing rocks that towered up like city buildings, forests and mountains was a pleasant change to them from the flat plains of the Great Basin .
6th	Experimental Breeder Reactor No. 1		December 21, 1965	Arco 43 ° 30 '34.2 "  N , 113 ° 0' 20.3"  W.	Butte	This research reactor was the world's first nuclear reactor with electrical power generation on December 20, 1951, as well as the first functioning breeder reactor .
7th	Fort Hall		January 20, 1961	Fort Hall	Bannock	Outpost where the Oregon Trail branches off from the California Trail .
8th	Lemhi Pass		0October 9, 1960	Tendoy 44 ° 58 ′ 29 "  N , 113 ° 26 ′ 41"  W.	Lemhi, ID and Beaverhead, MT	A pass over which the Lolo Trail leads.
9	Lolo Trail		0October 9, 1960	Lolo Hot Springs 46 ° 38 ′ 7 "  N , 114 ° 34 ′ 47"  W.	Clearwater (ID) and Missoula, MT	A difficult trail used by the Lewis and Clark Expedition in 1805 and 1806 .
10	Weippe Prairie		May 23, 1966	Weippe	Clearwater	Prairie landscape with prairie lilies whose roots were the basic food of the Nez Percé . At the same time the end point of the Lolo Trail for the Lewis and Clark expedition .

Other sites under the supervision of the National Park Service

National Historic Sites National Historic Parks , National Memorials, and a few other sites are also under the control of the United States National Park Service , but like the NHLs, enjoy greater protection than those generally listed on the National Register of Historic Places , without being considered National Historic Landmarks. There are two such areas in Idaho.

	Name of the site	image	year	place	county	description
1	Nez Perce National Historical Park		May 15, 1965
2	Minidoka National Historic Site		2001	Twin Falls	Jerome	One of ten internment camps for Americans of Japanese origin from 1942 to 1945

See also

Commons : National Historic Landmarks of Idaho  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} List of National Historic Landmarks in Idaho . National Park Service , accessed October 26, 2017.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} National Park Service: National Historic Landmark Program: NHL Database . Archived from the original on June 6, 2004. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 27, 2009. 

Web links

• National Historic Landmark Program on the website of the National Park Service (English)