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The first new settlers carved out homesteads to the north at Egin (near present-day Parker) and at Pooles Island (near present-day Menan). The camp-town moved on, but Eagle Rock now had regular train service and several U&NR buildings, shops, and facilities which expanded and transformed the town.Īs soon as the railroad came through, settlers began homesteading the upper Snake River Valley in earnest.

The bridge was 800 feet (240 m) long and had two spans, with an island in the center.

A new iron railroad bridge was fabricated in Athens, Pennsylvania at a cost of $30,000 and shipped by rail to the site, where it was erected in April and May 1879. The railroad company had 16 locomotives and 300 train cars working between Logan, Utah and the once-quiet stage stop. Grading crews reached Eagle Rock in late 1878, and by early 1879, a wild camp-town with dozens of tents and shanties had moved to Eagle Rock with a collection of saloons, dance halls, and gambling halls. The U&NR had the backing of robber baron Jay Gould, as Union Pacific Railroad had purchased it a few years prior. The railway would eventually connect to the large new copper mines at Butte, Montana. Soon, the Utah and Northern Railway (U&NR) was built, stretching north from Utah through Eagle Rock and crossing the Snake River at the same narrow gorge as Taylor's bridge. 1880, looking north, or upriver, with railroad shops in background The first child of European descent was born at Eagle Rock in 1874. Settlement was sparse, and consisted of only a couple of families and small irrigation ditches. In 1874, water rights were established on nearby Willow Creek and the first grain was harvested. The name was derived from an isolated basalt island in the river near the ferry, where approximately twenty eagles nested. The settlement was initially known as Taylor's Crossing, but postmarks indicate that by 1866, the emerging town had become known as Eagle Rock. The bridge improved travel for settlers moving north and west, and for miners, freighters, and others seeking riches in the gold fields of Idaho and Montana-especially the boom towns of Bannack and Virginia City.īy the end of 1865, a private bank, small hotel, livery stable, eating house, post office, and stage station had sprung up near the bridge. The present-day site of Idaho Falls became a permanent settlement when freighter Matt Taylor built a timber-frame toll bridge across a narrow black basaltic gorge of the river 7 miles (11 km) downstream from the ferry. The ferry served a new tide of westward migration and travel on the Montana Trail following the Bear River Massacre of Shoshone Indians in 1863. The area around Idaho Falls was first sparsely settled by cattle and sheep ranchers. JSTOR ( August 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.įind sources: "Idaho Falls, Idaho" – news Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section.

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