1901 Map of Sandpoint

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Pend Oreille Lake dominates the eastern landscape of this Northern Idaho region, where the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railroads began to shape early settlement patterns. This 1901 survey documents the area before modern bridges, when river travel relied on the Hamill Ferry, Markham Ferry, and Baldwin Ferry to cross the Great Northern Clark Fork. The rugged topography of the Cabinet Mountains and the Priest River Forest Reserve hem in small villages like Laclede, Algoma, and Seneaquoteen. From the southern Hoodoo Valley up to Coolin at the base of Priest Lake, the map traces the intersection of glacial water bodies and the early transport network that defined Kootenai County at the dawn of the twentieth century.