McCall City Jail was built for $650 in June, 1930, directly behind City Hall at the corner of Lenora and Third Streets, and after City Hall was moved 12 miles to Roseberry, Idaho, the jail remained as the sole reminder of earlier times. Meagerly furnished with a parlor stove, a washbasin, an iron bunk for each of two cells, and a few blankets, it mostly housed drunkards. When a new jail was built in Cascade in the early 1970s, the McCall jail was abandoned. Forty years earlier, Tom and Louisa McCall and family had settled on the south shore of Payette Lake, soon joined by Elba York, Lewis Heacock, John Cox, Mark Cole, and Albert Gaekel as a community began to take shape. In those early days Tom McCall appropriated the abandoned Lardo U.S. Post Office, originally located 10 miles south near Roseberry, and the south shore area was briefly known as Lardo. In 1903 the Lardo P.O. was moved across the river to Boydstun's store. Two years later Tom McCall had a four-block section from his homestead surveyed for a town site and began selling lots, setting aside two lots for a school and the Congregational Church, still located at the corner of First and Park Streets. Honoring Tom as the father of the town, citizens changed the name to McCall, and the town was officially incorporated on July 19, 1911. Recreation, mining, forestry, and commerce shaped McCall's development into the economic hub for central Idaho, while for over sixty years Carl Brown's lumber mill was the center and economic life force for its citizens. The presence of the Civilian Conservation Corps and the filming of the MGM movie Northwest Passage were highlights of the Depression and pre-war years, and the original village of McCall lay in a natural amphitheater with Payette Lake, alpine valleys, and mountains, where generations of residents and visitors found solace and inspiration.