Originally Posted by Idaho_Shooter
Around here, you have to look hard to find anything man made which is over 100 years old. This part of the country pretty much belonged to the Indians until nearly 1880. There is not much left to show they were here but a few arrow heads.

The College of Idaho in Caldwell Id was founded in 1909. The train depot in town is not much older.

Completed 1910, photo 1918, Sterry Hall College of Idaho
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Construction for Owyhee Dam was started in 1928. It is a concrete arch-gravity dam on the Owyhee River in Eastern Oregon near Adrian, Oregon. At 417 feet, it was the tallest dam in the world at that time. As memory serves.

This dam was constructed in the same manner as was used to build Hoover Dam later. Owyhee Dam was actually "proof of concept" for the construction technique.

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It's fun to walk parts of the Oregon Trail in Twin Falls county and follow the wagon ruts that are still there. There's a few pieces of trail, here and there, here in Caribou county as well, but not near as well defined.

As far as castles, I went to college in an actual, factual, honest to goodness, castle. It's not what it's cracked up to be after a while, but the double 1,000 liter bulk beer tanks in the student bar in the cellars were handy to have around......

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Sic Semper Tyrannis