Owyhee County GenWeb Wickahoney


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History of Wickahoney, Owyhee County, Idaho

Wickahoney

Wickahoney (also spelled Wickahony) was a stage stop. It was also once the home of the Dunning family, who established a ranch there in 1887, near Wickahoney Springs. It had a functioning post office and had ranches nearby. It provided a welcome rest along the stage route from Mountain City, Nevada to Mountain Home, Idaho

The stage stop was built in the late 1890s and fell into disrepair and disuse when a change in the route was made in the 1930s.

City Directory, 1898

Directory of Residents and Businesses

Residents

Ben Buncel, rancher
C.L. Buncel, rancher
Lafayette Clark, ranchere
Dow Dunning, postoffice and rancher
Joseph Harvey, rancher
Fred Heller, rancher
John Job, rancher
Joe Marchbanks, rancher
Frank Riddle, rancher
George Riddle, rancher
Grant Riddle, rancher

U.D. Riddle, rancher
George Roberts, rancher
William Ryan, rancher
A.W. Stone, rancher
Dick Stone, rancher
William J. Tindall, rancher
Hobart Wilson, rancher

Cemetery

From the website http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=688187 of pictures taken in 2006.

The final picture shows a more recent and permanent grave marker. It says, Joshua Dunning, 1842-1909. Margaret Dunning, 1868-1913. Baby Dunning, 1894, Unknown Miner, 1910.

Findagrave.com http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gsr&GScid=2308424 (does not include the unknown miner.)

1900 U.S. Federal Census

The residents of the ranching areas of Wayland and Wickahony are enumerated in the Bruneau precinct in the 1900 census.

Cited Works:

Wickahoney Stage Stop, Desert Hideaways (http://idahoptv.org/outdoors/shows/deserthideaways/wickahoney.cfm)

A Historical, Descriptive and Commercial Directory of Owyhee County, Idaho, January 1898. Silver City, Idaho: Press of the Owyhee Avalanche, 1898.