The Jim Moore Place in

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dates from 1898, when Jim Moore and C. E. Churchill built the first house there. The house and eight other buildings which followed in the next 15 years were log buildings, with logs hewn by broad axe. There was also a root cellar, an orchard, and agricultural fields. Jim Moore did not homestead the property, but rather obtained a placer mining claim on it, naming it Slide Creek Placer. It was deemed significant as "the only remaining relatively unaltered example of a lifestyle that is rapidly disappearing in the Salmon River country." The Jim Moore Place https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5409147.pdf is located on one of the major routes to the Thunder Mountain Mining area called the

Three Blaze Trail The Three Blaze Trail is an Historic Trail constructed in 1902 in Idaho, United States. The trail was located and constructed by William Stonebreaker, William Campbell, Harry Donohue, and August Hotzel as a "shortcut" route from Dixie, Idaho, to t ...

Campbell's Ferry Campbell's Ferry was a ferry crossing on the Salmon River, located at Mile 148 of the river in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness. The ferry was part of the Three Blaze Trail, which connected Grangeville to Dixie, Idaho, to the Monum ...

is located across the Salmon River from the Jim Moore Place and was instrumental in providing a crossing of the Salmon River, Idaho for the miners traveling to the Thunder Mountain Mining area. The listed area is in size and included nine

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Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Idaho Buildings and structures completed in 1898 Idaho County, Idaho National Register of Historic Places in Idaho County, Idaho {{Idaho-NRHP-stub