Taken with an Olympus StylusEpic Zoom 80
This is the stagecoach stop, Halfway from St.Maries Idaho to either Santa or Emida Idaho.
I remember as having then a long shake roof on both the barn and the station house. The passengers would dismount the stage near the station,after that the stagecoach driver would drive into the round barn and change teams or if the weather was bad the driver and passengers would stay in the station house overnight. In the mid 20s they improved the road to gravel for automobiles.The horses hooves could not handle the gravel so the stagecoach was replaced with a bus.
In the 1940s they would have music and dancing some Saturday nights {no drinking} A lady and her husband lived there and had a small store. They also what they had call today, a bed & breakfast. The lady used to make candy for sale and more than once I would walk a couple of miles for a nickles worth of candy.
