Stricker Store - Oregon Trail - 1865

First settlement on the Oregon Trail near Twin Falls, Idaho - 1865 is when this store was built. A major Stage Stop before heading on to Oregon.. Behind the store is a cellar - held goods, liquor, a temp Jail, as well as protection from Indians....

I would love to go back 150 years and just take a glimpse of what that life held for those folks back then.. BTW - standing at some signs, you can still see the tracks from the wagons that traveled on the Oregon Trail - still clear and visible - and you just have to wonder .... just how was it back then ??

Nice photo.

There's like the oldest ghost town in Oregon near Applegate Valley where we lived 2005, but the name escapes me. Just 3 or 4 buildings.

Pretty sure its east of Upper Applegate Rd., north of Hy 238.