Kooskia, Idaho County, Idaho Genealogy

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City Hall
http://www.kooskia.com/area_services.htm Kooskia City Hall P.O.Box 126/26 S.Main St Kooskia, Idaho 83539 (208) 926-4684

Presbyterian
Kooskia First Presbyterian Church Clearwater Valley ‎ 501 Idaho Kooskia, ID 83539

(208) 926-0007

Other
Valley Bible Church‎ 305 Front Street Kooskia, ID 83539

(208) 926-0182

Eternal Hope Wesleyan Church‎ Kooskia, ID 83539

(208) 926-8819

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

Funeral Homes
Trenary Funeral Home 018 1st Ave Kooskia, Idaho 83539 (208) 926-0011

History
The town was first named for James Stuart, a Nez Perce surveyor and merchant. The town was named and called Stuart, and was surveyed in 1897; the government in 1895 had set aside 104 areas for a township. Lewis and Clark, passes through the rugged Lochsa Canyon. Kooskia was named for what is now the Clearwater River. The Nez Perce Indians called it Koos-Koos-Kia for the river's transparent quality. The Post Office was established as on May 25, 1896. The first newspaper, called the Alta Idaho Area Paper, was printed January 1, 1898. On April 16, 1902, the first issue of the Kooskia Mountaineer was off the press. There was a tram from Kooskia's flour mill to the Camas Prairie grain fields from 1903 to 1939. The tramway had two cables running the entire length of a mile and a quarter which carried thirty buckets.

Newspapers
Copies of issues of many newspapers are in the collections of the Idaho State Archives in Boise.