Timeline of Boise, Idaho
19th century
- 1863 – Fort Boise established by United States Army.[1]
- 1864 – December 7: Boise designated capital of Idaho Territory.[2]
- Idaho Tri-Weekly Statesman newspaper begins publication.[3]
Christ Chapel was constructed in 1866 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
- 1866 – Christ Chapel built.
- 1867 – Henry E. Prickett becomes mayor.
- 1870 – Territorial Prison built.[4]
- 1871 – Assay Office (Boise, Idaho) built.
- 1881 – Historical Society of Idaho Pioneers organized.
- 1890 – Boise becomes capital of new State of Idaho.
- 1892 – Woman's Columbian Club organized.[5][6]
- Boise Sentinel newspaper begins publication.[3]
- 1896 – Ahavath Beth Israel synagogue built.
- 1897 – Idaho Intermountain Fair begins.
20th century
- 1900 – Population: 5,957
- 1901 – Idanha Hotel opens
- 1905 – Carnegie Public Library opens [7][8]
- 1906 – Boise Commercial Club organized [9]
Main Street in 1911
- 1907 – Julia Davis Park established
- 1908 – Pinney Theatre opens [10]
- Swedish Lutheran Church built
- 1909 – College Women's Club organized [11]
- 1910 – YWCA organized [11]
- Population: 17,358
- 1912 – Idaho State Capitol opens (first phase)
- 1913 – Idaho Labor Herald and New Freedom newspapers begin publication.[3]
- Boise-Payette Lumber Company in business
Map of Boise in 1917
- 1920 – Population: 21,393
- 1921 – St. John's Cathedral completed
- 1925 – Union Pacific Depot opens
- Idaho Country Club founded, became Hillcrest in 1940
- 1926 – Airfield in operation, at present site of Boise State University [12]
- 1927 – Egyptian Theatre opens
- 1928 – Bandshell built in Julia Davis Park
- 1932 – Boise Junior College opens
- Idaho Legionnaire newspaper begins publication[3]
- 1938 – Boise Airport moves to present site
- 1939 – Rose Garden dedicated in Julia Davis Park
- First Albertsons supermarket opens
- 1940 – Hillcrest Country Club opens at former Idaho Country Club
- State Funeral of U.S. Senator William Borah; 23,000 pass bier in state capitol [13]
Boise's Carnegie Public Library opened in 1905 on Washington St. and remained at that site until the library moved in 1973.
- 1955 – Boise homosexuality scandal begins
- 1957 – Boise Cascade headquartered in Boise
- 1958 – Second public high school, Borah, opens
- 1960 – Population: 34,481
- 1964 – Bishop Kelly High School opens
- 1965 – Third public high school, Capital, opens
- 1968 – Boise Greenbelt plan adopted
- 1969 – Boise College becomes Boise State College
- 1970 – New Bronco Stadium opens, constructed in less than a year.
- Population: 74,990
- 1972 – St. Alphonsus Hospital moves to present site from downtown[14]
- 1973 – Boise Co-op founded.[15][16]
- State Penitentiary closes[4]
- 1974 – Boise State College becomes Boise State University and Boise Bible College established.
- 1975 – One Capital Center opens
- 1976 – Old St. Alphonsus Hospital arson,[19] later razed.[20]
- 1977 – Idaho Shakespeare Festival begins.[21]
US Bank Plaza, constructed as "Idaho First Plaza," opened in 1978.
- 1978 – U.S. Bank Plaza opens, as "Idaho First Plaza"[22][23]
- Micron Technology begins operations
- Boise Buckskins minor league baseball team begins play (sole season)[24][25]
- 1979 – Mountain West Airlines-Idaho headquartered in Boise
- 1980 – Population: 102,249
- 1982 – Taco Bell Arena opens as "BSU Pavilion"
- 1984 – World Center for Birds of Prey established
- Boise, Idaho Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opens
- Funeral of U.S. Senator Frank Church [26][27]
- 1986 – Bronco Stadium installs first blue AstroTurf field
- 1987 – Boise Hawks minor league baseball team's first season, relocated from Tri-Cities[28]
- 1988 – Boise Towne Square Mall opens
- Discovery Center of Idaho constructed.
- 1989 – Memorial Stadium opens for baseball
- 1990 – Boise Open golf tournament begins
- Boise Centre (convention center) opens
- Population: 125,738
- 1992 – Boise Weekly begins publication
- Foothills School of Arts and Sciences established
- 1995 – Idaho Black History Museum built
- 1997
- City website online (approximate date).[32]
- Boise Contemporary Theater group founded
- CenturyLink Arena opens
- Famous Idaho Potato Bowl (college football) game begins as "Humanitarian Bowl"[33]
- 1998 – Fourth public high school, Timberline, opens
- 1999 – Boise Hare Krishna Temple built
21st century
Aerial view of Boise in 2007
- 2000 – Riverstone Community School relocates to Boise.
- Population: 181,711 [34]
- 2002 – Islamic Center founded.[35]
- 2003 – Boise Dharma Center founded.[35]
- 2004 – David H. Bieter becomes mayor.[36]
- 2005 – Caldwell-Boise Express bus begins operating.[37]
- Boise Guardian begins publication.[38]
- 2006 – Treasure Valley Rollergirls founded.
- Albertsons LLC headquartered in Boise.
Butch Otter and Lori Otter, Governor and First Lady of Idaho, open the 2009 Special Olympics World Winter Games
- 2007 – College of Western Idaho founded.
- 2008 – Trey McIntyre dance troupe relocates to Boise.[39]
- Frank Church High School opens.
- 2009 – February: 2009 Special Olympics World Winter Games held.
- 2010 – Population: 205,671.
- 2011 – Idaho Aquarium opens.
- 2012 – Treefort Music Fest begins.
- 2013 – City sesquicentennial.[40]
See also
- Boise history
- Boise metropolitan area
- Media in Boise, Idaho
- List of mayors of Boise
References
- Automobile Blue Book 1919.
- John Hailey (1910), The History of Idaho, Boise, Id: Syms-York Company, OCLC 5793481, OL 7093749M
- "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved March 31, 2013.
- "Come and Explore Over a Century of Prison History!". Idaho.gov. Retrieved March 31, 2013.
- Mary Osborn Douthit, ed. (1905). "Women's Club Work in Idaho". . Portland, Oregon.
- "Collection Descriptions". Idaho State Historical Society. Retrieved March 31, 2013.
- "History of Boise's Library". Boise Public Library. Archived from the original on 25 July 2011.
- American Library Annual, 1917–1918. New York: R.R. Bowker Co. 1918.
- Boise, Boise Commercial Club, 1907
- The Billboard, October 3, 1908
- "Idaho Branch". Journal of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae. Chicago: Association of Collegiate Alumnae. January 1911.
- “Large Sales,Pilot Training Upswing Marked by Aviation,” Idaho Statesman, Boise. January 2, 1947. p. 13.
- Bottcher, Walter R. (January 26, 1940). "Senator Borah rests in mountain's shadow". Lewiston Morning Tribune. Associated Press. p. 1.
- "Building urged". Spokane Daily Chronicle. Associated Press. October 4, 1972. p. 3.
- "NCGA Co-ops: Idaho". Iowa: National Cooperative Grocers Association.
- "Boise-Co-op".
- "Pro ball returns to Boise after absence of 11 years". Lewiston Morning Tribune. June 18, 1975. p. B1.
- "Boise drops opener before 1,814 fans". Lewiston Morning Tribune. Associated Press. June 19, 1975. p. B1.
- "Historic hospital damaged by fire". Spokesman-Review. Associated Press. November 16, 1976. p. 8.
- "Old building to be razed". Spokane Daily Chronicle. Associated Press. November 23, 1976. p. 22.
- "Past Plays". Idaho Shakespeare Festival. Retrieved March 31, 2013.
- "Idaho bank plans rites". Deseret News. August 1, 1978. p. B3.
- "Bank will dedicate new office building". Lewiston Morning Tribune. July 23, 1978. p. 3D.
- "Boise board tables 'Buckskins'". Lewiston Morning Tribune. Associated Press. September 14, 1977. p. B3.
- "Buckskins continue sans pay". Spokesman-Review. Associated Press. August 22, 1978. p. 15.
- "Church's body comes home to Idaho". Spokesman-Review. Associated Press. April 12, 1984. p. 1.
- "Hundreds of Idahoans mourn". Spokane Chronicle. Associated Press. April 12, 1984. p. 1.
- Stalwick, Howie (June 16, 1987). "Indians open season tonight". Spokesman-Review. p. B1.
- "Stubbon fire guts old Boise building". Bend (OR) Bulletin. UPI. January 25, 1987. p. A-6.
- "Downtown Boise fire under control". (Moscow) Idahonian. Associated Press. January 26, 1987. p. 5.
- Collias, Nicholas (November 23, 2005). "The Hole Truth And Nothing But". Boise Weekly.
- "Welcome to the City of Boise". Archived from the original on April 1997 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
- "Cincinnati takes inaugural Humanitarian Bowl". The Item. Sumter, SC. Associated Press. December 30, 1997. p. 3B.
- "About Boise". City of Boise. Archived from the original on June 4, 2003.
- Pluralism Project. "Boise, Idaho". Directory of Religious Centers. Harvard University. Retrieved October 14, 2013.
- "Meet the Mayors". Washington, DC: United States Conference of Mayors. Archived from the original on June 27, 2008. Retrieved March 31, 2013.
- "Boise Region Grapples With Smog", New York Times, January 23, 2009
- "Idaho". CJR's Guide to Online News Startups. New York: Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved October 19, 2013.
- "Dancers Adopt a City and Vice Versa", New York Times, August 13, 2010
- "Boise 150". Retrieved March 31, 2013.
Bibliography
- "Boise", An Illustrated history of the state of Idaho, Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1899
- Sunset Magazine Homeseekers' Bureau (1908), Boise, Idaho, Boise: Boise Commercial Club, OL 7220896M
- "Boise", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
- Boise, Idaho, Boise: Boise Commercial Club, 1913, OL 25397669M
- Hiram T. French (1914), "(Boise)", History of Idaho, Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., OCLC 2739177
- "Boise". Automobile Blue Book. New York: Automobile Blue Book Publishing Co. 1919.
- Federal Writers’ Project (1937). "Boise". Idaho: A Guide in Word and Pictures. American Guide Series. Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers. p. 253+.
- Ory Mazar Nergal, ed. (1980), "Boise", Encyclopedia of American Cities, New York: E.P. Dutton, OL 4120668M
- "Rocky Mountains: Idaho: Boise", USA, Let's Go, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999, OL 24937240M
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