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HISTORIC SURVEY REPORT A Reconnaissance Survey of the Old Hailey Town Site Prepared for: The City of Hailey and the Hailey Historic Preservation Commission 115 South Main Street Hailey, Idaho 83333 Prepared by: Claudia Taylor Walsworth, M.A. Walsworth and Associates Cultural Resource Consultants P.O. Box 1248 Ketchum, Idaho 83340 June 15, 2006 Table of Contents 1.0 INTRODUCTION.................................................................................................................................................1 2.0 PROJECT LOCATION .........................................................................................................................................1 3.0 PROJECT DESCRIPTION....................................................................................................................................1 4.0 PROJECT SETTING..............................................................................................................................................4 5.0 GENERAL CULTURAL SETTING.....................................................................................................................6 6.0 RESEARCH DESIGN ...........................................................................................................................................9 6.1 PRE-FIELD RESEARCH.......................................................................................................................................10 6.2 SUMMARY OF PREVIOUS STUDIES ....................................................................................................................11 6.3 POST-FIELD RESEARCH.....................................................................................................................................11 6.4 RECONNAISSANCE SURVEY METHODS...........................................................................................................18 7.0 RESULTS..............................................................................................................................................................20 8.0 GENERAL DISCUSSION OF BUILDING PATTERNS .................................................................................21 10.0 RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FUTURE SURVEY WORK ..........................................................................29 11.0 LIST OF ATTACHMENTS ..............................................................................................................................31 12.0 REPOSITORY ....................................................................................................................................................31 13.0 CERTIFICATION OF RESULTS .....................................................................................................................31 14.0 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS .............................................................................................................................31 15.0 REFERENCES....................................................................................................................................................32 List of Figures FIGURE 1. GENERAL PROJECT VICINITY MAP. ..................................................................................................2 FIGURE 2. PROJECT LOCATION MAP....................................................................................................................3 FIGURE 3. RECONNAISSANCE SURVEY LOCATION MAP .............................................................................19 List of Tables TABLE 1. PREVIOUS INVESTIGATIONS AND RESULTS FOR CURRENT STUDY AREA...........................12 TABLE 2. PREVIOUSLY RECORDED HISTORIC SITES WITHIN STUDY AREA...........................................15 TABLE 3A. 2006 RECONNAISSANCE SURVEY RESULTS................................................................................22 TABLE 3B. 2006 RECONNAISSANCE SURVEY RESULTS.................................................................................23 TABLE 3C. 2006 RECONNAISSANCE SURVEY RESULTS.................................................................................24 A Reconnaissance Survey of Old Hailey Town Site iii Walsworth and Associates June 15, 2006 1.0 Introduction In February 2006, the City of Hailey (herein referred to as City) sent out a Request for Proposals (RFP) for a reconnaissance survey within the Old Hailey Town site which includes portions of the city’s commercial core, transitional areas, and residential neighborhoods. The reconnaissance survey is administered under a Certified Local Government Grant from the Idaho State Historic Preservation Office and the National Park Service (NPS). As part of the Hailey Historic Preservation Commission (HPC), the City applied for federal funds that were matched with cash, donated time, and materials from the City. 2.0 Project Location Hailey is located in northern Blaine County which is situated in south central Idaho. Hailey’s Main Street is State Highway 75 (SH 75) which is a nationally designated scenic corridor known as the Sawtooth Scenic Byway (Figure 1). The legal description for the project area is portions of sections 9 and 10 of Township 2 North, Range 18 East of the Boise Base Meridian (Figure 2). The study area covers the city’s commercial core along Main Street between River Street on the west, Myrtle Street on the north, First Avenue on the east, and Cedar Street on the south. In addition, the transitional and residential areas extending east to Fifth Avenue of the commercial area just described, as well as that part of the Old Hailey Townsite lying between Fifth Avenue on the west, Carbonate Street on the north, Eighth Avenue on the east, and Croy Street on the south, will be included in the residential survey area (cf. Figure 3 in Section 6.4). 3.0 Project Description The purpose of the reconnaissance survey is to complete a basic inventory of the original town site that was platted between 1881 and 1882. The goal of the survey is to identify approximately thirty historic properties eligible to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) using criteria established by the NPS (1991 U. S. Department of the Interior). Information gathered from the survey will also be used to assist the City of Hailey with future preservation planning and to identify areas for additional survey work. Historic sites that are individually eligible; historic sites that may contribute to a potential historic district or neighborhood conservation area; and multiple properties that relate to a particular time period or theme will be identified through this investigation. A Reconnaissance Survey of Old Hailey Town Site 1 Walsworth and Associates June 15, 2006 Figure 1. General Project Vicinity Map. Map Courtesy Idaho Travel and Tourism Guide (visitidaho.org) A Reconnaissance Survey of Old Hailey Town Site 2 Walsworth and Associates June 15, 2006 Figure 2. Project Location Map A Reconnaissance Survey of Old Hailey Town Site 3 Walsworth and Associates June 15, 2006 Products produced from the survey will include a data cover sheet, a listing of all inventoried properties, black and white photographs in archival sleeves, maps showing project and site locations, Idaho Historic Site Inventory Forms, and a final survey report. All products will be delivered to the City in duplicate hard copy and on CD-R diskettes. Survey products will meet the Secretary of Interior’s standards for identification, evaluation, and historical documentation and adhere to requirements of the Idaho State Historic Preservation Office including guidelines for documenting historic properties (SHPO 2005). 4.0 Project Setting Hailey, which is the county seat of Blaine, is a small rural community that consists of approximately 6,200 people today. The number of households in Hailey is 2,389 with about 50.1% men and 49.9% women. A majority of Hailey’s population is 88% non Hispanic and 12 % Latino and ranges in age from 25 to 44 years of age with the median age at 33.3 years (City of Hailey 2006). Located in the upper Big Wood River Valley situated in south central Idaho, the drainage is a major tributary of the Snake River which is part of the Columbia Basin watershed. Situated at 5,330 feet above sea level Hailey is set within a narrow high elevation river valley that measures about 1.5 miles wide. The Big Wood River Valley is one of many north/south trending canyons or valleys in the region that form the divide between the Northern Great Basin and Northern Rocky Mountain physiographic provinces. Geologic deposits in the general study area which include rich veins of silver, lead, gold, and other precious metals, spurred mining developments near Hailey during the 1800’s. Geologic formations near Hailey are mainly associated with the Milligan (Mississippian) and Dollarhide (Permian) formations, which include several thousand feet of slate, black shale, and limestone. Several Cretaceous-Period igneous intrusions associated with the formation of the Northern Rocky Mountains are located within the project vicinity. Soils in the study area belong to the Little Wood-Balaam-Adamson Group and the Picabo-Harpur-Bickett group. The Little Wood Balaam-Adamson soils are typically very deep, well drained, and somewhat excessively drained soils that form in alluvium on slopes that range from 0% to 4%. The Picabo-Harpur-Bickett soils are very deep, somewhat poorly drained to very poorly drained soils that formed in alluvium on slopes that range from 0% to 2% (USDA 1991). The climate of Hailey is