PLACE ALBUM

Buildings and homesteads.

Schools, churches, homes and cabins across the valley, and the farm work that made the homesteads. In date order within each kind; undated ones last. 17 photographs.

Schools

Circa 1980
Arbon school, circa 1980
Arbon school circa 1980
From: School memories ↗

Memorial Day 2010
An iris in the forgotten cemetery
The purple iris on the grave of Lucille Danken Fredrickson, laid to rest November 19, 1914, in the small cemetery about a mile west of the Arbon School.
From: The Forgotten Cemetery ↗

Date unknown
Arbon Elementary School
The photograph on the archive’s Arbon Elementary School page (posted February 2010).
From: Arbon Elementary School ↗

Churches and meetinghouses

October 19, 2022
The Arbon LDS meetinghouse, 2022
Photograph by Tony Webster, October 19, 2022, from Wikimedia Commons. Licensed CC BY 2.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0).
Tony Webster, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Date unknown
Meadow Ward (West Fork)
Meadow Ward (West Fork)
From: Pauline and West Fork ↗

Date unknown
Arbon Bible Church
The photograph on the archive’s Bible Church page (there by February 2010). The congregation dates from 1997; its building, the former Charles Allard home, from 2000.
From: Bible Church ↗

Homes, cabins and homesteads

1895
First home of George Arbon in Arbon Valley, 1895
Printed caption beside the photograph on a scanned page of a published local history; the archive does not name the book. Shown here cropped to the photograph.
From: Ezra Taft Andersen & Sarah Eveline “Eva” Arbon ↗

Date unknown
A Summit homestead cabin
From the Summit area history; people and place not identified.
From: Summit ↗

Date unknown
Julian Maes in front of his cabin
Printed caption in the image: after proving up on the homestead requirements, Julian Maes received his patent on June 5, 1913.
From: Buist ↗

Date unknown
The Lusk ranch at Arbon
FamilySearch memory titled “Lusk Ranch at Arbon, Idaho”, on David Thomas Lusk’s person page. The men are not named; undated (an automobile suggests the 1920s or later).
FamilySearch (uploaded by a relative)

Date unknown
Joseph C. Jenson’s first homestead house, Arbon
FamilySearch memory titled “Joseph Christensen Jenson Homestead First House Arbon, Idaho”. A recent photograph of the log house.
FamilySearch (uploaded by a relative)

Farm work

Memorial Day 2010
The forgotten cemetery’s hill
The lonely hill, surrounded by fields, where 24 known people are buried.
From: The Forgotten Cemetery ↗

Date unknown
A long horse hitch in the field
Farm scene on the David Thomas Lusk biography; the figures are too small to identify.
From: David Thomas Lusk & Susannah Bailey ↗

Date unknown
An advertisement for the Fresno scraper
A printed advertisement of the Fresno Agricultural Works, Fresno, California, shown with the Summit history.
From: Summit ↗

Date unknown
Plowing with a horse team
From the Arbon area history; people and place not identified.
From: Arbon ↗

Date unknown
A 1928 combine at harvest
Posted by the Power County Historical Preservation Committee, gathering family stories and pictures for a book on the county.
From: Historical Preservation ↗

Around the valley

Memorial Day 2010
A wooden grave marker in the forgotten cemetery
One of the cemetery’s wooden grave markers, washed clean by sun and weather. The last burial there was in 1939.
From: The Forgotten Cemetery ↗

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