Wallace

Wallace is an Idaho historical marker in Shoshone County, dedicated 2025.

I-90B (Near Exit 61), milepost 61

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In 1884, William R. Wallace built a cabin at a site he called Placer Center. A community grew, took the name Wallace, and became the commercial hub of the nation’s richest silver-mining district. Wallace has retained a large number of historic buildings reflecting its mining past. As engineers designed the Interstate 90 expansion, the original plan took the highway through town, requiring the removal of much of the pristine architecture. The community successfully argued for an alternative. In 1991, Wallace ceremonially retired the last stoplight on the 3,000-mile Interstate 90—as the new freeway bypassed the town.

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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1880 · Idaho. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1884 · Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1901 · Coeur D'Alene District, Idaho (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1903 · Coeur D'Alene District, Idaho (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1906 · Coeur D'Alene District, Idaho (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, 1884, covering the location of Wallace, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, 1884, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Wallace

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