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Fort Lemhi Salmon River Mormon mission
Ghost town Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Trade beads
Buttons and bucklesAlso reported: 1850s large cents, musket balls and percussion caps, ox shoes, wagon hardware, hand-forged nails.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), Unknown (CC BY 4.0), Unknown (Public domain).
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Why this spot
1855-1858 Mormon mission fort
Mormon mission settlement founded in June 1855 to preach to the Bannock, Shoshone and Nez Perce, which grew to over 200 people and brought irrigated farming to the valley. A raid in February 1858 killed two settlers and ran off most of the stock, and the colonists abandoned the fort in March 1858 during the Utah War.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
rattlesnakes, ditches
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