The Allard family.
The Allard family is documented on the valley map from land and family records. The original archive has no family history for them, so their pictures are kept together here. 1 land patent · 2 newspaper clippings.
Land patents
Federal patents to the family’s land, from the General Land Office records, in date order.
View photograph ↗Homestead patent to William Allard, 1914
Federal land patent signed March 7, 1914 (BLM serial IDBL 0005507). Shown: the top of the first page.
Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records (public domain)In the old papers
Clippings of newspaper articles that name the family, in the order they were printed. Each opens the story retold from it. All the clippings ↗
View photograph ↗An Arbon homesteader becomes Power County’s first legislator
In 1914 William Allard, a homesteader from Arbon, won the Republican primary and the November election to become the first man Power County sent to the Idaho House.
From: An Arbon homesteader becomes Power County’s first legislator ↗
View photograph ↗A wreck mars Arbon’s first fair, and Allard answers a critic
Arbon’s first community fair, held at the Central school on May 10, 1916, had a band, exhibits and speeches until a borrowed car overturned, and a few weeks later William Allard answered an unsigned critic of the day.
From: A wreck mars Arbon’s first fair, and Allard answers a critic ↗Help put names to these pictures.
Many of these photographs still need names, places and dates. If you know who is in one, open it and choose “Help identify this photograph”. If your family keeps photographs of the valley, the archive would love to see them.