Talley Store & Woody Hotel

Talley Store and Woody Hotel

The Woody Hotel was built in 1909, in anticipation of the Thunder Mountain traffic through Sweet. Jamie Chilcott, daughter of early-day Pinehurst (Boise County) postmistress and Sweet historian, told of continuous day-and-night travel on this route during the Thunder Mountain Rush. But Thunder Mountain did not live up to expectations. Woody sold the hotel in the spring 1913 to a Mr. Kvoko and purchased land in Hagerman Valley. The old Woody Hotel stands to this day and the ground floor, which survived earlier fires, houses the Sweet Syringa Club.



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Ballantine Wool Wagons in Sweet


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