Summit.
Pictures of Summit: its buildings and homesteads, the families who lived there, and the land patents that made the homesteads theirs. On the valley map: Cattle claims 1885 (probable); water claims 1893–94 (unverified); first homestead entries July 2, 1901; homesteads mainly 1909–19. 2 photographs · 4 land patents · 2 newspaper clippings.
From the history of Summit
The pictures in the original account of Summit. Read it ↗
View photograph ↗A Summit homestead cabin
From the Summit area history; people and place not identified.
From: Summit ↗
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 ↗Land patents
Federal patents to homesteads in Summit, in date order.
View photograph ↗Homestead patent to Peter Larsen, 1907
Federal land patent signed April 19, 1907 (BLM serial IDIDAA 005268). Shown: the top of the first page.
Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records (public domain)
View photograph ↗Homestead patent to Joseph C. Jenson, 1915
Federal land patent signed February 18, 1915 (BLM serial IDBL 0005691). Shown: the top of the first page.
Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records (public domain)
View photograph ↗Homestead patent to Charles H. Orison, 1915
Federal land patent signed June 9, 1915 (BLM serial IDBL 0006165). Shown: the top of the first page.
Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records (public domain)
View photograph ↗Homestead patent to Mamie Nunnelley, 1915
Federal land patent signed July 7, 1915 (BLM serial IDBL 0005799). 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 about Summit, in the order they were printed. All the clippings ↗
View photograph ↗Four sisters from Summit answer the call as nurses
One after another, four daughters of W. A. Nunnelley of Summit trained as nurses, and the papers traced them through a Navy enlistment, the influenza of 1918–19 and a Logan diploma in 1920.
From: Four sisters from Summit answer the call as nurses ↗
View photograph ↗A Summit homestead harvest, and a farm that lasted a century
In 1922 J. Parley Sorensen ran two headers on the Summit homestead he had proved up in 1914, land his descendants the Thompsons still farm and that Idaho named a Century Farm in 2024.
From: A Summit homestead harvest, and a farm that lasted a century ↗Family albums from Summit
The families the valley map places in Summit.
Jenson family
Joseph Christensen Jenson, Alice Girdlestone Smith Jenson, Clyde Jenson and 1 more
Larsen family
Peter Magnus Larsen
Nunnelley family
Mamie A. Nunnelley, Walter Albert Nunnelley
Orison family
Charles Henry Orison Sr.
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.