Idaho City Idaho

If you drive North on highway 21 through Boise and out of town, you drive straight into Idaho City. The areas outside of Idaho City gave more gold during the Gold Rush, even more than Alaska. The estimates are about 100 million dollars. Besides supplying all this gold, the city had very nice and elegant theatres for the people living there. They also had surreys that you could rent for Sunday afternoon rides around the town. Surreys are like a bike that have 4 seats in them. They would rent these and ride around for the afternoon. Idaho City also had many breweries. They actually had 4 breweries and 41 saloons. The very first Territorial Jail in Idaho was in Idaho City. It was made of rickety logs and planks. There wasn’t much room and it was lacking comfort and sanitation. Usually there was only one guard on duty and the prisoners would usually learn that they could over take him. The first Catholic church in Idaho was also in Idaho City. It still stands there today. Fires throughout the years have destroyed many of the original framed buildings. But there have been many of the buildings rebuilt with brick. It gives a great sense of what the town was like during its peak years. There are still occupants living in Idaho City.