Arbon Valley wins its freeway interchange, 1969
When the state moved a planned freeway interchange away from Bannock Creek in 1969, Arbon Valley ranchers and their neighbors asked for it back, and in September they got it.
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When the state moved a planned freeway interchange away from Bannock Creek in 1969, Arbon Valley ranchers and their neighbors asked for it back, and in September they got it.
In 1969 a Pocatello paper profiled first-grade teacher Lettie Allard as she prepared to retire, and in one paragraph described her husband, the Arbon homesteader William Allard, then 93.