Idahome

The town was named off a flour sack. A surveying party found a bag of the Twin Falls mill's Idahome flour, the railroad made the stop official under that name, and the settlement took it. The line it was built to end was meant to reach the Raft River Valley, but in 1912 the federal government stopped it over settlers' water rights, and Idahome stayed a terminus with a train twice a week in summer. It had an airstrip and its own paper, the Inland Empire, and was gone by the end of World War II.

What the plaque says

Idahome After wheat crops flourished in this dry farm area, Idahome sprang up here in 1916 as a railroad terminal. Irrigation projects boosted its economy. When wheat farms disappeared and highway traffic replaced rail service here, Idahome became a ghost town. Its grain elevators, lumber yards, stores, airport, oil company, school, newspaper, and people are only past memories. An elevator and a few building foundations mark its site. 449 Text prepared by the Idaho Historical Society Marker made & installed by Idaho Transportation Department

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Massacre Rocks State Park — 28 mi
  Named for emigrant deaths that happened somewhere else, five months before a massacre that was called a battle.
• City of Rocks National Reserve — 28 mi
  Two granite spires the emigrants steered by. They look like twins and formed about 2.5 billion years apart.

More markers nearby

• Hudspeth's Cutoff — 8.6 mi
• Diamondfield Jack — 9.1 mi
• Albion State Normal School — 9.4 mi
• Emigrant Trails — 19 mi