Fort Hall Bingham County, Idaho

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  • Feature Type: Place

 

Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for Fort Hall

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Fort Hall Official

 

Origin Notes and History of Fort Hall

References to Fort Hall that document the origin of its place name

Title Cover Image: Idaho Chronology, Nomenclature, Bibliography

FORT HALL, Bingham County.—The Columbia Fishing and Trading Company was formed in 1834, by several individuals in New York and Boston. Nathaniel Wyeth, having an interest in the enterprise, collected a party of men to cross the continent to the Pacific, with the purpose chiefly of establishing trading posts beyond the Rocky Mountains and on the coast. The site selected for the first fort was on the east bank of the Snake River, nine miles above the mouth of the Portneuf River (q. v.). It was named for Henry Hall, senior member of the firm furnishing Wyeth financial backing. Competition in trade soon forced Wyeth to sell this fort, which he did in 1836, to the Hudson Bay Company. It was abandoned by the latter company in 1856, since which time the erosive power of the Snake River has washed it away. In 1870, the Government erected a post on Lincoln Creek, a tributary of the Blackfoot River, garrisoned it with soldiers, and called it Fort Hall ; however, it was forty miles northeast of the old fort. This latter post is also entirely abandoned. A postofiice by this name is on Ross Creek, about midway between the two former forts.—TOWNSEND, Narrative.

John E. Rees, B. Sc. in Idaho Chronology, Nomenclature, Bibliography
Rees, John E., Idaho Chronology, Nomenclature, Bibliography, 1918 W.B. Conkey Company, pp. 72  |  Idaho Chronology, Nomenclature, Bibliography

 

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