Northwest Nazarene University

The school began smaller than its name. Classes opened on September 13, 1913, as the Idaho Holiness School, a grade school and Bible school meeting in a Mennonite church in Nampa, organized by Eugene Emerson, a rancher and lumberman who had underwritten the town's first Church of the Nazarene. It took the names Northwest Holiness College and then Northwest Nazarene College in 1916, when the theologian H. Orton Wiley became president, and gave its first four degrees in 1917. Emerson was elected mayor of Nampa in 1923. The college became a university on September 1, 1999.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• World Center for Birds of Prey — 15 mi
  The hilltop where the peregrine falcon was bred back from DDT, and where condors for the Grand Canyon country still hatch.
• Basque Block — 17 mi
  A merchant's 1864 brick house became the boardinghouse where herders from the Basque Country found beds, meals and their own language.
• Idaho State Capitol — 17 mi
  Walls hauled from the prison quarry, heat pumped from 3,000 feet down, and its newest rooms built underground.
• Old Idaho Penitentiary — 19 mi
  A territorial prison that ran for 101 years on conditions that barely changed, and closed the year its prisoners burned it.

More markers nearby

• The Ward Massacre — 7.1 mi
• Initial Point — 7.8 mi
• The College of Idaho — 8.2 mi
• Emigrant Crossing — 10 mi