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"Pacific Coast Business Directory for 1876-78," Compiled By Henry G. Langley, Editor of the California State Register, Pacific Coast Almanac, San Francisco, 1875. Gazetteer and Business Directory of Idaho Territory
Towns in Owyhee County Boonville, P. 0. address. Silver City
Fairview
Silver City
South Mountain
Wagontown, P. 0. address, Silver City
Bruneau
Castle Creek
De Lamar
Givens Springs1, (formerly Enterprise) Highway Marker
Guffey
Homedale Oregon Trail Marker in Homedale
Marsing Froman Ferry Highway Marker (see also Froman's Ferry at Historical Marker Database)
MURPHY2 (county seat)
Oreana
Reynolds Creek
Rockville
RUBY CITY (renamed SILVER CITY) (Historic County Seat, 1863)
SILVER CITY (Historic County Seat, 1867)
1876 Directory
Three Creek
WALTERS FERRY3 (Lower Ferry)
Wayland
Wickahoney
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1Givens Springs: "Givens Hot Springs was used by emigrants on the Oregon Trail for baths and washing clothes. Two such emigrants, Milford and Martha Givens, had seen the springs on their trip west and came back to settle here in 1881. In 1902 a concrete pool was built." - Idaho-Highway-Historical-Marker-Guide
2Murphy: ". .became the seat of Owyhee County by four votes, in 1934, at the expense of Silver City.
"Murphy acquired its name through Col. William Dewey, who chose to honor his friend Con Murphy. The townsite was the terminal for the Boise, Nampa and Owyhee Railroad, Dewey's line intended for the Silver city lines." - Cort Conley, "Idaho for the Curious.", Backeddy Books, 1982.
3Walters Ferry: ". .became a viaduct on the most direct route between the Boise Basin mines to the north and the Owyhee mines to the south. The overland route in the 1860s from San Francisco to Boise ran from Virginia City, Nevada, through DeLamar and Silver City, down Reynolds Creek, across Walters Ferry, north through present day Kuna.
"In 1863 John Fruit and a partner made the first oar-powered log ferry and began to shuttle customers here. . ." - Cort Conley, "Idaho for the Curious."
"Pacific Coast Business Directory for 1876-78," Compiled By Henry G. Langley, Editor of the California State Register, Pacific Coast Almanac, San Francisco, 1875. Gazetteer and Business Directory of Idaho Territory
A historical, descriptive and commercial directory of Owyhee County, Idaho, January 1898
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