Seneacquoteen

Bonner County · dedicated 2025 · Parking area at end of Laclede Ferry Rd (off SH-2), milepost 14.55

For thousands of years, Kalispel Indians forded ntxwe (Pend Oreille River) near here. They called it Seneacquoteen, “the crossing.” In 1811, Canadian fur trader David Thompson crossed ntxwe here, and in 1860-61, international boundary survey teams established base camps on the river’s banks. Gold rushes in Montana and Canada later brought thousands of miners. Starting in 1864, a ferry provided transport. By then, Seneacquoteen had a couple saloons and stores. For a time, it was the seat of Kootenai County government. When the Northern Pacific Railroad bypassed Seneacquoteen, its brief boom faded, but the ferry operated until 1957.

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