East Hope, Idaho

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City Hall
East Hope City Hall 146 W Main Street Hope, ID 83836 (208) 264-5314

Directories
The Idaho State Archives in Boise has a collection of city, county, regional and state directories.

Funeral Homes
Coffelt Funeral Service 109 N Division Avenue Sandpoint, Idaho 83864 (208) 263-3133 Lakeview Funeral Home 301 S Olive Avenue Sandpoint, Idaho 83864 (208) 263-3180 Sherman &amp; Knapp Funeral Home Incorporated 118 Wakena Lane Priest River, Idaho 83856 (208) 448-1012

History
In 1882 the Northern Pacific Railroad built its transcontinental rail line along the east bench of Lake Pend Oreille. A veterinarian railroad employee with the last name of Hope is where the name came from. In 1901 the Hope Lumber Company built a sawmill near the lakeshore, the community was built around the sawmill and was call East Hope after the City of Hope.

Historical
There are no copies of East Hope newspapers found in the collections of the Idaho State Archives in Boise, Idaho, but papers of nearby towns/cities that are in the Archives could be of interest to East Hope residents.