Fort Lemhi

In 1855 a group of Mormon missionaries came north from Utah to found a remote colony just below the bench east of here. It was a religious settlement rather than a military fort. Salmon River Mission grew to more than 100 settlers before Indian trouble forced them to abandon the valley in 1858. By that time the missionaries had baptised (sic) 100 Indians and had begun irrigating farming in spite of ruinous summer frost and plagues of grasshoppers. Some of the old mission ditches still are used, and part of an old adobe mission wall still stands at Fort Lemhi.

Idaho · United States