The St. Maries 1910 Fire Memorial, at St. Maries Cemetery in St. Maries, Idaho, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.[1]
St. Maries 1910 Fire Memorial | |
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Location | St. Maries Cemetery, St. Maries, Idaho |
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Coordinates | 47°18′56″N 116°35′12″W / 47.31556°N 116.58667°W |
Area | 2.5 acres (1.0 ha) |
Built | 1910 |
MPS | North Idaho 1910 Fire Sites TR |
NRHP reference No. | 84001010[1] |
Added to NRHP | September 20, 1984 |
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Description
editA six-foot granite slab memorial, with a 19 by 13 inches (0.48 m × 0.33 m) United States Forest Service bronze plate, was erected in 1924. The site includes graves of 54 fire fighters lost on August 20, 1910. Also 28 fire victims at Big Creek and 26 at Setzer Creek, killed in 1912, were reburied to the memorial.[2]
References
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
- ^ "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: St. Maries 1910 Fire Memorial / Site No. 6". National Park Service. Retrieved October 9, 2018. With accompanying two photos from 1986
External links
edit- Media related to St. Maries 1910 Fire Memorial at Wikimedia Commons