Idaho City Historic District Walking Tour

As you roam the wooden boardwalks and explore the historic buildings, of the Idaho City Historic District, your guide will take you back in time to the 1860's, when Idaho City was the "Queen of the Gold Camps and the biggest city in the Pacific Northwest. Visit the Courthouse and see where Herman St. Clair was sentence to be hung, for shooting his mining partner in the back. Explore the Vaults in the Miners Exchange and sit in Saloon, where county commissioners still have their meetings, Today, sitting behind the bar. Learn about the dramatic history of fires and how that influenced the architecture. Walk through the first Idaho Territorial Penitentiary and see the writing on the walls, left by prisoners in the 1800's. Peek in the windows of the houses in the Historic Village and learn about mining techniques that were used to extract more gold from the area, than anywhere else in the country. In short, Relive the days of yesteryear, and make memories For Today!