Falk's Store
(Payette County)




The Idaho Encyclopedia
By Vardis Fisher, State Director
Compiled by the Federal Writer's Project of the Works Progress Administration, 1938
Page 103-104



Falk's Store (Payette County). 16 miles northwest of Emmett, on State 16 and the Payette-Emmett branch of the UPRR (Union Pacific Railroad), in the eastern part of the county. This was one of the oldest settlements in southern Idaho. It was a station for the Utah, Idaho, and Oregon Stage Line, and an outfitting and trading post. The first store was established in 1867 by James Toombs. Later, Nathan Falk bought the old store and established a store and stage station. The settlement had a hotel, a saloon, a blacksmith shop, a boot and shoeshop, and one of the best schoolhouses in the valley.





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