Seneacquoteen

The name is older than the town: in the Kalispel language Seneacquoteen means crossing, and these meadows were a camping place and river crossing for Kalispel and Kootenai people long before traders followed their trail. Kootenai County's seat was here on paper; one county history says no official county business was ever conducted at Seneacquoteen, and Rathdrum took the seat in 1881. The Markhams ran the ferry: Lyman built it in 1864 and his brother Francis bought it in 1885, after he and Elmina had come down from Sandpoint in 1883 by leaky rowboat, eighteen miles with seven children.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Farragut State Park — 16 mi
  The Navy built its second-largest boot camp 375 miles from the ocean, and still tests submarines on the lake.

More markers nearby

• Long Bridges — 12 mi
• Pen d'Oreille City — 15 mi
• Gladys Buroker (1914-2002) — 15 mi
• Bayview Limekilns — 16 mi