The Bloomington Historical Committee’s Bloomington, Idaho: A History of the Town and Its People records the founding, spatial arrangement, and family histories of one of the earliest Mormon settlements in the Bear Lake Valley. Settled in the spring of 1864 along Bloomington Creek, the text documents the communal surveying of farm plots, the construction of log meetinghouses, and the establishment of water rights that supported grain cultivation and cattle husbandry. The narrative chronicles the operation of early shingle mills and limestone quarries in Bloomington Canyon, recording community cultural activities, brass bands, and cooperative livestock herds. Comprehensive genealogical sections and property registers preserve the social and economic fabric linking Bloomington to its neighboring settlements in Paris and St. Charles.

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Includes family genealogies, municipal rolls, and land grant maps.

Includes family genealogies, municipal rolls, and land grant maps.