Burke, Idaho Historical Sign
Lead-silver discoveries in 1884 attracted a railroad to Burke by 1887. Hundreds of miners lived there in a canyon so narrow that they scarcely had room for streets.
So in 1888, S.S. Glidden's Tiger Hotel had to be built over, rather than beside, Canyon Creek. Railroad tracks and Burke's only highway also had to run through this hotel. When a second railroad arrived in 1890, its tracks has to be laid in Burke's only street. No other hotel had two railroads, a street and a stream running through its lobby.

Hecla-Star Mine

Gorge Gulch/Burke Canyon, Burke, ID 1998

Gorge Gulch/Burke Canyon, Burke, ID 1998

Frisco Mill Historical Sign
During a gun war that broke out between company and union miners here, several boxes of dynamite were exploded shattering a four-story mill, July 11 1892
Overwhelmed by union miners, company managers surrendered. Six fatalities -- half from each side, preceded four months of martial law and military occupation by a thousand soldiers. A long series of battle followed. Resumed in North Idaho in 1899, this conflict continued in Colorado, Montana, Nevada and Arizona.

Frisco Mill mine tailings

Frisco Mill and Mine located between Wallace and Burke, Idaho in the Coeur d'Alene mining region, circa 1890

"Hercules Mill, Wallace (Idaho) 1912-1917", Barnard-Stockbridge Photograph Collection, Digital Initiatives, University of Idaho Library

Northern Pacific Railroad Station
downtown Wallace, Idaho
Northern Pacific Depot was constructed in 1901

Wallace Pioneer Nine Mile High Cemetery