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. 13 photographs.
Schools
View photograph ↗Arbon school, circa 1980
Arbon school circa 1980
From: School memories ↗
View photograph ↗Arbon Elementary School
The photograph on the archive's Arbon Elementary School page (posted February 2010).
From: Arbon Elementary School ↗Churches and meetinghouses
View photograph ↗The Arbon LDS meetinghouse, 2022
Photograph by Tony Webster, 19 October 2022, from Wikimedia Commons. Licensed CC BY 2.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0).
Tony Webster, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
View photograph ↗Meadow Ward (West Fork)
Meadow Ward (West Fork)
From: Pauline and West Fork ↗
View photograph ↗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
View photograph ↗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 ↗
View photograph ↗A Summit homestead cabin
From the Summit area history; people and place not identified.
From: Summit ↗
View photograph ↗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 ↗
View photograph ↗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)
View photograph ↗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
View photograph ↗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 ↗
View photograph ↗An advertisement for the Fresno scraper
A printed advertisement of the Fresno Agricultural Works, Fresno, California, shown with the Summit history.
From: Summit ↗
View photograph ↗Plowing with a horse team
From the Arbon area history; people and place not identified.
From: Arbon ↗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.