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Portfours cabin and claim, possible false homestead claim, Marble Creek Item Info
- Title:
- Portfours cabin and claim, possible false homestead claim, Marble Creek
- Date Created (ISO Standard):
- 1905
- Description:
- Photo text: 'Cabin on claim of Chas. O. portfours. Settlement alleged July 11, 1901. Residence 1902-1903-1904, 2 months each year. A cruiser by profession, and in employ of Clearwater Timber Company, a subsidiary of the Weyerhauser interests. Sold September 27, 1913 to Rutledge Timber Company, also a Weyerhauser concern. He lived at Orofino, Idaho, for a number of years, and previously resided at Troy, Idaho. Photo taken October 19, 1905, shortly after he offered filing.' Note: Marble Creek region homesteads at this time were often part of a homesteads fraud being documented by the US Forest Service.
- Subjects:
- cabin claim pioneer settlers homesteads homesteaders false fake USFS lawsuit
- Location:
- Marble Creek;Idaho;United States; St. Joseph National Forest;Idaho;United States
- Latitude:
- 47.25075
- Longitude:
- -116.02043
- Source:
- NARA College Park RG 95; Box 51
- Source Identifier:
- NARA0815DC24
- Type:
- image;stillimage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Portfours cabin and claim, possible false homestead claim, Marble Creek", Archival Idaho Photograph Collection, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/archivalidaho/items/archivalidaho971.html
Rights
- Rights:
- Material determined to be in Public Domain based on date of publication. Material made available by the University of Idaho Library. For more information; please contact University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives Department at libspec@uidaho.edu.
- Standardized Rights:
- https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/