The House
by Roxie Crouch
Title
The House
Artist
Roxie Crouch
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Photograph - Photograph
Description
Chesterfield is a ghost town in Caribou County, Idaho, United States. The community includes a cemetery and former buildings of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) such as a former meeting house, amusement hall and tithing house.
Located along a route of the Oregon Trail, Chesterfield was founded by Mormon settlers in 1881. After a railroad line was built through Bancroft to the south, the community lost some of its momentum, and agricultural difficulties led to its desertion by the end of the 1930s. Today, the community is operated as a tourist attraction, with guided tours and a museum.
In 1980, the community was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district and is also on the Mormon Historic Sites Foundation's Mormon Historic Sites Registry.
The historic district includes 41 buildings and eight sites, spread out over an area of 2,160 acres . The buildings of the Chesterfield town site were mostly deserted before 1941 when the school closed. The general store closed in 1958. By 1970, less than 200 people lived in the area and only 20 people lived in historic Chesterfield. In the late 1970s, the nonprofit Chesterfield Foundation was formally organized to help restore and preserve the community.
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