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On June 20, 1863, Bill Hickman started a ferry 9 miles up the Snake River for thousands of gold hunters headed for mines that now are in Montana. Named for an eagle that had a nest on a rock there, the ferry flourished until James Madison Taylor replaced it two years later with a bridge across a narrow lava gorge here. Idaho Falls eventually grew up around Taylor’s bridge.
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Idaho Falls, Idaho · United States
