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ID HCR002
Concurrent Resolution
Status
2/5/2015
Primary Sponsor
State Affairs Committee
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AI Summary
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Matt Taylor, a Montana Trail freighter, built a toll bridge across the Snake River in 1865, becoming the first bridge to cross the river and succeeding a ferry operated by Harry Rickets.
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The bridge facilitated westward migration and travel to gold fields in Idaho and Montana, leading to settlement of the area known as Eagle Rock by 1866.
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The town was renamed Idaho Falls in 1891 in reference to rapids below the bridge, and developed into a major agricultural center with the construction of the Great Feeder irrigation canal in 1895.
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The Atomic Energy Commission opened the National Reactor Testing Station west of Idaho Falls in 1949, and a nuclear reactor first produced useful electricity on December 20, 1951; the facility now employs more than 8,000 people as the Idaho National Laboratory.
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The legislature honors and recognizes the 150th anniversary of the Eagle Rock bridge's construction in 1865, with a copy of the resolution to be forwarded to the Mayor of Idaho Falls.
Legislative Description
Stating findings of the Legislature and recognizing the 150th anniversary of the building of the first bridge to span the Snake River which started the settlement that became Idaho Falls.
EAGLE ROCK BRIDGE
Last Action
Delivered to Secretary of State at 10:40 a.m. on February 25, 2015
2/26/2015