Rattlesnake Station

At the junction of the Rocky Bar Road with the Oregon Trail, Rattlesnake Station was a major stage line stop for 20 years. Stage service commenced in 1864, and a road to the Rocky Bar mines was opened 2 months later. In 1878 the station owners renamed their place Mountain Home instead of Rattlesnake. When the Union Pacific was built out in the valley in 1883, it replaced the freight wagons and stage lines that came through here, and Mountain Home was moved down Rattlesnake Creek to its present location on the railroad.

Mountain Home, Idaho · United States