Bonners Ferry, Idaho

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City Hall
Bonners Ferry City Hall Bonners Ferry, Idaho 83805 Phone: (208) 267-3105

Cemeteries
Grandview Cemetery Find-a-Grave has made 4584 interments available online.

Other cemetery records in Bonners Ferry or near by are available on Boundary County Cemeteries.

Baptist
First Baptist Church‎ 6711 El Paso Street Bonners Ferry, ID 83805-8639

(208) 267-3215 fbcbonnersferry.org‎

Historical
Many of the original records of church units are in the Church History Library in Salt Lake City. Many of the membership records covering these units from the date of their creation to about 1948 have been microfilmed and are available at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City or at its Family History Centers. A record of the Bonners Ferry Branch (1947-48) is available.

Current
St. Mary's Episcopal Church‎ 6850 Denver Street Bonners Ferry, ID 83805

(208) 267-3202

Lutheran
Trinity Lutheran Church‎ 6784 Cody Street Bonners Ferry, ID 83805-8504

(208) 267-2894 lutheransonline.com‎

Methodist
The United Methodist Church‎ 6568 Lincoln Bonners Ferry, ID 83805

(208) 267-2343 umc.org‎

Current
St. Ann Catholic Church‎ 6712 El Paso Street Bonners Ferry, ID 83805-8639

(208) 267-2852

Historical
St Ann's Catholic church records (1922-1965) have been microfilmed by the Family History Library in Salt Lake City and are available for viewing at their facility or at any of their affiliate Family History Centers.

Other
Some of the churches of Bonners Ferry are listed at this website with their contact information.

This is another online listing of Bonners Ferry churches with contact information.

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

Funeral Homes
Bonners Ferry Funeral Home. They also have obituaries on their site.

History
One of the first was explorer David Thompson (explorer)David Thompson, a cartographer for the Northwest Trading Company. Thompson and four fellow fur traders arrived in 1808 to trade with the Lower Kootenais. He was followed in 1846 by Society of JesusJesuit Priest Pierre-Jean De SmetFather DeSmet, a missionary to the Kootenai Tribe. Government surveyors of the Boundary Commission came in 1858 to establish the border between the United States and Canada.

When gold was discovered in the East Kootenays of British Columbia in 1863, thousands of prospectors from all over the West surged northward over a route that became known as the Wildhorse Trail. Edwin Bonner, an enterprising merchant from Walla Walla, Washington, established a ferry in 1864 where the trail crossed the broad Kootenai River. In 1875 Richard Fry leased the business, but the location retained the name of the original founder and later became the town of Bonners Ferry.

The Norwegian-built Steamboatsteamer "Midge" launched into service in 1883 and operated for the next 25 years carrying passengers and freight between Bonners Ferry and British Columbia. The Great Northern Railroad was built here in 1892, followed quickly by the Spokane International and the Kootenai Valley lines.

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Current
Bonners Ferry Herald P.O. Box 539 Bonners Ferry, ID 83805 Ph. 208-267-5521 email - screnshaw@bonnersferryherald.com Weekly

Historical
Copies of issues of Bonners Ferry newspapers are in the collections of the Idaho State Archives in Boise.

Websites
Boundary County Historical Society located in Bonners Ferry.

Boundary County Library also located in Bonners Ferry.