Everything Wallace is known for
Wallace is the only city in America whose entire downtown is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Founded in 1884 as a silver mining camp, it has produced over 1.2 billion ounces of silver and survived the largest wildfire in American history.
Once produced more silver than anywhere on earth; became one of the largest Superfund sites in U.S. history.
Built by Coeur d'Alene tribal members and Jesuit priests in 1850-53 without nails, using woven grass and mud.
Lieutenant John Mullan built the first engineered road across the northern Rockies from Fort Benton to Walla Walla between 1858 and 1862, a 624-mile military wagon road that opened Montana to settlement.
9 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.
Wallace is the only city in America whose entire downtown is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Founded in 1884 as a silver mining camp, it has produced over 1.2 billion ounces of silver and survived…
Hold on tight, because you're about to enter a place that stood its ground against progress itself! This is the Wallace Historic District. Back in the 1970s, when Interstate 90 was planned, it was supposed to cut right…
Once produced more silver than anywhere on earth; became one of the largest Superfund sites in U.S. history.
This unassuming tunnel is a monument to survival: it saved the lives of roughly 50 firefighters during the Great Fire of 1910. That fire, also known as the Big Burn, remains one of the largest wildfires in recorded…
Imagine a bustling railway town, now just a memory, completely wiped out by the Great Fire of 1910. Grand Forks was a railway town in Shoshone County. It was located east of Avery, Idaho. The Great Fire of 1910…
You're driving along a route once dominated by the ambitious Milwaukee Road, a railroad that dared to challenge established giants. In the early 1900s, the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company,…
This depot was a vital stop on the Milwaukee Road's Pacific Extension, connecting the Midwest to the Pacific Northwest. The Avery Depot was built in 1909 by the Chicago, Milwaukee and Puget Sound Railway, also known as…
Lieutenant John Mullan built the first engineered road across the northern Rockies from Fort Benton to Walla Walla between 1858 and 1862, a 624-mile military wagon road that opened Montana to settlement.
Built by Coeur d'Alene tribal members and Jesuit priests in 1850-53 without nails, using woven grass and mud.