Lemhi County, ID              1870 Federal Census              DISTRICT INFORMATION

The files on-line for this census can be found in the following directory:
http://www.us-census.org/pub/usgenweb/census/id/lemhi/1870/

ABOUT LEMHI COUNTY:

Lemh County was named after Fort Lemhi (or Limhi), a remote Mormon missionary 
settlement from 1855 to 1858 in Bannock and Shoshone territory.  The Idaho 
territorial legislature actually created the county twice.  The first occasion 
was on December 21, 1866.  A county government was organized at Salmon City, 
yet the bill approving the county was misplaced and never published in session 
laws. The following session, the legislature passed the bill again, officially 
creating Lemhi County on January 9, 1869.

The Lewis and Clark Expedition entered Idaho on August 12, 1805, at Lemhi Pass 
in present-day Lemhi County.  Meriwether Lewis and three other members of the 
expedition were the first Americans of European descent to enter what is now 
Idaho.  For Sacajawea, their guide and interpreter, the Lemhi Valley was her 
birthplace and her brother was the Chief of the Lemhi band. 


Microfilm #M593-185
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STATUS     DISTRICT               PAGES       TRANSCRIBER       PROOFREADER
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On-Line    Fort Lemhi           110A          Robert E. Lane    Linda Talbott
On-Line    Salmon River         110B-122B     Robert E. Lane    Linda Talbott
On-Line    Leesburg             111B-113B     Robert E. Lane    Linda Talbott
On-Line    Loon Creek           114A-119B     Robert E. Lane    Linda Talbott
On-Line    Stanley Basin        122B          Robert E. Lane    Linda Talbott


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This Census was transcribed by Robert E. Lane and proofread by Linda Talbott
for the USGenWeb Census Project® http://www.us-census.org/
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