What's New?
February
2011 Ladies Social, Events Scrapbook
January 2011
Veterans buried at Bramwell Cemetery
Photos of my family's veterans sent to Janie & added to Veterans buried in Riverside
November
Newspaper Articles to History Section
The Fourth at Emmett, July 1902
Emmett Red Birds Cover Themselves with Glory, Other News, Dissolution Notice, July 10, 1902
W. C. Emke Mines at Pearl Sold for $25,000, January 13, 1903
Farmers' Co-Operative Irrigation Co. Plans, January 13, 1903
Liberty Mine Sold, October 1929
September
Known Gem County Civil War Veterans
August 2011
New Stock in StoreJuly 2011
June 2011
added to history
Sweet
Sweet Methodist Church (on historical register)
Ola
May 2011
added to History - Veterans
Veterans buried in Emmett's Riverside Cemetery
Veterans buried in Sweet-Montour and Ola Cemeteries
added to History - Places
April 2011
added to Photos
"Looking West Down Main Street, 1922" (museum's "big art" sign)
Emmettsville plat
Sweet plat
Letha plat
Pearl map 1902 reconstructed - to accompany 1902 Pearl photo
March 2011
added to History - People
Emmett Newell (1919 - 1987), Civilian POW
Jay Sisler (1926 - 1995), Dog Trainer for Disney
added to Photos
Historic Sweet
Black Canyon Dam
Pearl (last buildings razed in the spring of 2004 - a poignant reminder of the need for active historical preservation)
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