Near Black Canyon Highway (State Highway 52 at milepost 38), 0.2 miles east of Old Dam Road.
Constructed in 1924, this $1,500,000 concrete gravity dam has a 1,039 foot crest and a 183 foot structural height.
A 29 mile canal, along with lesser ditches, serves 58,250 acres of Boise and Payette valley farms. A power plant at Black Canyon . . . — — Map (db m23237) HM
On State Highway 16 at milepost 111 near Old Freezeout/Jackass Gulch Road, on the right when traveling south.
In 1862 Tim Goodale opened an Oregon Trail Cutoff which descended a steep ridge just west of here into the valley below.
Later that year a gold rush to Boise Basin came up Payette Valley, and the next summer farmers along the river started . . . — — Map (db m119238) HM
On State Highway 16 at milepost 111 near Old Freezeout/Jackass Gulch Road, on the right when traveling south.
Gold mines high on a ridge above here maintained an industrial community at Pearl from 1894 to 1910 when ore ran out.
Now a silent reminder of Gem County's major gold rush, Pearl once boasted of 3 mercantile stores, a butcher shop, 4 . . . — — Map (db m119237) HM
