Montpelier, Idaho (Hope: loan, home, camping)

[NCN]

I am interested in the area between Montpelier, Idaho and the Montana border. I noticed a highway 30 and roads going off from it. I would appreciate any information you can give me about this area and it history.

[NCN]

Originally Posted by NCN

I am interested in the area between Montpelier, Idaho and the Montana border. I noticed a highway 30 and roads going off from it. I would appreciate any information you can give me about this area and it history.

Forgive me, that is Wyoming near Montpelier. I am trying to figure out how to get some particular information without giving away my identity. I googled my husband's last name and cemetery and came up with a cemetery in the Bear Lake Area with his family name. Futher work on google showed a road by that name and an unincorporated town leading from Montpelier all the way to the border.

My interest is in the topography and how the family ended up there. We are interested in maybe touring the area some time next year. Just a tourist thing, we have a home and don't want to move there. If there is someone who lives in that area, I would appreciate a direct message so I can give individual information.

I have found the family connection on our family genealogy website and am planning to study that more today. Williamsburg is a long way from Idaho, so I am hoping to trace the journey.

[twinprism]

I live about 90 miles away, but I have visted that area many times and enjoy camping and driving through this area.

Most of the area was explored by fur trappers, and was founded by Mormon settlers on the route of the Oregon Trail. First permanent settlers were mostly Mormon settlers coming up from the Salt Lake Valley. Aside from the Cataldo mission in North Idaho, it is one of the first permanent non-native settlements in Idaho.

If you want specific info about families in the area, I'm afraid I'm not much help, though I vistit there for work twice a year or so.

[NCN]

I went to the family website today and spent a couple of hours tracing the Idaho entries. I was wondering how the person with the town and road name came to be there. I think he was with the railroad, maybe helped build the railroad. I was just curious. I don't think there are any Mormons in our family, but there could be. Someone else on another thread had mentioned that the Mormons had settled there a lot. My husband's family are all over the US and other countries. We have a family saying that if someone in his family moves to a town and finds another person with that name, they have to keep going. Wandering is part of the meaning of their name.

[hometown gal]

I am from this area and may be able to answer some of your questions. You might also try picking up a copy of the book "Treasured Tidbits of Time" on amazon. It as lots of antedotal stories about the area, and I think includes how various towns got thier names.

[NCN]

Originally Posted by hometown gal

I am from this area and may be able to answer some of your questions. You might also try picking up a copy of the book "Treasured Tidbits of Time" on amazon. It as lots of antedotal stories about the area, and I think includes how various towns got thier names.

Thank you for that. I will certainly try to get hold of that book. I just ordered it on interlibrary loan. Hopefully some library will have it.

[twinprism]

ISU library has it and it's across the street. I'll grab it and see if says anything about the small town you were interested in. Not too much trouble for me and it could save you some time and expense. Thanks for the lead hometown gal.

[twinprism]

NCN

Got the book and some info for you.. coming to you in PM.. If you PM me your email back I'll scan the relevant pages and send them your way..

[NCN]

I want to thank each and every poster especially twinprism and hometown gal. Your response has been overwhelming with its kindness. I am passing this information on to the people who manage the family website. You may have given several generations of my dh's family information they did not have. I am so glad I did my "google" just for fun. Twinprism, the picture website is incredible.