In the early 1900’s, Sir Hugh Bovill of England, his wife Lady Charlotte, and their daughters Gwendolyn and Dorothy settled in Warren Meadows, now the center of Bovill, seeking a better life in a pristine wooded basin known for abundant hunting, fishing, and recreation. By 1905, Hugh Bovill had opened Hotel Bovill, a stately hunting lodge that became a welcoming place for sportsmen, travelers, loggers, and early homesteaders during harsh winters as they built homes and improved the land. This wilderness paradise changed with the arrival of the railroad, when train cars carrying Balkan and Italian immigrant loggers known as “Bohunks” came to Bovill Basin to harvest some of Idaho’s finest white pine stands. Extensive logging and numerous noisy logging camps eventually forced Bovill to sell his homestead and land, and by 1911 he and his family left their wilderness home. One hundred years later, the wooded basin paradise had returned, and Bovill was once again well known for abundant hunting, fishing, and recreation in a rugged backcountry setting.