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The history of Rexburg’s Tabernacle connects three different subjects: a building originally used for worship, the damage caused by the 1976 Teton Dam flood, and a museum established to preserve local experience. Keeping those subjects distinct makes the story easier to follow. The flood is not the building’s beginning, and the museum’s original address should not be mistaken for its current location. History Spotlight Three dates organize the building’s story: construc …

Heyburn’s early history brings together two different kinds of planning. Engineers designed a regional irrigation system; town planners laid out places where people would live and trade. Neither plan by itself determined how the community developed. Local recollections and the county’s retrospective history preserve a more complicated account of rail construction, business locations and choices about land. The regional project behind the town The National Park Service’s histor …

Ketchum's great ore wagons are impressive objects, but their size is only the beginning of the story. Freight had to move between mines, supply points and mountain communities. Animals and people needed water along the way. Looking beyond the parade's largest vehicles reveals the supporting work that made an extractive economy possible. A supply town, not just a mining backdrop The city's historical introduction describes Ketchum as a supply base for the upper Wood River mines during the late n …

A beaded retainer ring listing can give you a pole diameter, an assembly length and a bead diameter in the same description. Those measurements are related to one product, but they are not interchangeable. Reading an “11-inch ring” as an 11-inch-long assembly would lead to a very different purchase from the one the listing describes. Start with the equipment identification and the measurement definitions. The FORTISVEX beaded retainer ring selection provides product-specific configur …

Flagpole halyard listings often put a fraction, a length and a material in one title. Add a spool quantity or a set of snaps, and it becomes easy to compare unlike items. A 50-foot rope and a 1,000-foot spool may share a diameter, but they represent very different purchases. Before choosing a replacement, separate the equipment specification from the amount sold. This guide explains how to read those fields and build an order record. It does not prescribe a rope for an unidentified pole, calcula …