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150 Boise icons to celebrate the city's sesquicentennial: Cyrus Jacobs/ Uberuaga House

Did you know? About 1,000 people came to watch the 2012 excavation of the houses old well. The items uncovered will be used in archeology lab courses at the University of Idaho. The community beyond Idaho also took note of the Boise dig. Archaeology Magazine included it in the World Roundup of significant digs.

Grove Street has changed through the years. The Cyrus Jacobs/Uberuaga House is a time capsule that details many of them.

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150 Boise icons to celebrate the city's sesquicentennial: Cabana Inn's red hat

A list of the distinctive - some would say quirky - oversized objects that make up the Boise skyline includes the washer woman and giant diamond ring on Vista Avenue; the prancing white horse at Main and 6th; and the Spanish red bolero that for decades has floated over the Cabana Inn - boasting...
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150 Boise icons to celebrate the city's sesquicentennial: Spaulding Ranch

The Spaulding Ranch, 20 acres of farmland surrounded by houses on all four sides, is the last land of its kind left in Boise.
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150 Boise icons to celebrate the city's sesquicentennial: Ten Commandments monument

A simple stone monument set off a fire storm in 2003.
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150 Boise icons to celebrate the city's sesquicentennial: Smoky Davis

Smoky Davis, home to all things smoked, is a longtime Boise icon.
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150 Boise Icons: Boise River

With the Greenbelt and the Foothills, the Boise River is one of the natural features that distinguishes the capitol city from all others.
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150 Boise icons: The Bench

The Bench, made of sediment left behind when ancient rivers cut through the Valley, was home to many of Boise's first "suburbs."
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150 Boise icons: Rainbow trout

The population of rainbow trout in the Boise River is healthy today, more than twice what it was a decade ago, said Andy Brunelle, an officer in the local Ted Trueblood chapter of Trout Unlimited. That's thanks to higher winter water flows, protection of riparian areas, habitat restoration and fishing...
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150 Boise icons: City Hall Fountain

This fountain once stood in front of Boise's original City Hall on the southeast corner of 8th and Idaho. You can make out the fountain in old photos.
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150 Boise icons: The Flicks

The Flicks is Boise's first "art house" cinema.
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150 Boise icons: Boise High School

Boise High's predecessor, Central School, opened in 1882. It stood on what's now the Capitol Mall. As one indicator of Boise's growing population in that era, enrollment at Central was 700 students in just a few years. The crowds inspired the school district to buy land on Washington Street for ...

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