AVARBON VALLEYIDAHO · OUR SHARED HISTORY
FAMILY ALBUM · CRYSTAL AREA

The Johnston family.

The Johnston 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.

Land patents

Federal patents to the family’s land, from the General Land Office records, in date order.

Homestead patent to John O. Johnston, 1910View photograph ↗
7 February 1910

Homestead patent to John O. Johnston, 1910

Federal land patent signed 7 February 1910 (BLM serial IDBL 0001975). Shown: the top of the first page.

Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records (public domain)
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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.