Franklin Idaho - An Interactive Introduction to the Relic Hall Museum

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WILLIAM J. DUNKLEYANNIE LAURA LOWE

Photo GalleryPhotos from the Franklin Relic Hall

Imagesfrom the

In the early 900s Franklin na-

tive, Elliot Butterworth, realizedthat the towns original settlers

were passing away and saw an

opportunity. He began attendinglocal estate sales and buying his

neighbors old things. In 98 he

opened the areas first museum

in the old stone Mercantile Co-op building and called it the Relic

Hall. In 937 the Relic Hall was

moved into a new, much larger

bulding next door. When yourein the area, stop in an enjoy theRelic Hall for yourself.

HOLD your mouse cursor on the doorway in the photo

above to read a story about a hummingbird

DUNK LE Y HI STORI ES LOWE HIS TOR IES FR ANK LI N & WHI TNE Y, I DAHO PHOTO GALLERY CHART S & MAPS


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Franklin Co-op Fireplace, stone First LDS chapel First LDS chapel First schoolhouse First schoolhouse 2 First schoolhouse 3

Flour mill Glass dipper, detail Glass dipper Grinding stone Horseshoes Jail, interior Jail

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Anvil Ball of twine Bear trap, front Bear trap, top Bench, wooden 1 Bench, wooden 2 Butter churn

Butter churn Butter ladle Cabin, stone, detail Cabin, stone Candle molds Chair Clock, detail

Clock Cloth, Ann Doney 1 Cloth, Ann Doney 2 Cloth, Ann Doney 3 Cloth, Ann Doney 4 Cast iron skillet Cast iron pot

DU NK LE Y HI STOR IE S LOWE H IS TOR IE S F RAN KL IN & WHI TN EY, IDAHO CHARTS & MAPSPHOTO GALLERY


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Lath Loom shuttle Mallet head Mallet Mill gear, card Mill gear Mill stone

Mill wheel, angle Mill wheel, front Mill wheel, Laurie Molasses guage Nails Pitchforks Plane, bottom

Plane,top Plow Pocketwatch,back Pocketwatch,front Postofce Railroaditems Railroadphoto

Relic hall, front Relic Hall, angle Ribbon, envelope Ribbon, Pioneer Day Roadometer Roadometer, detail Roadometer story


Saw, large Saw, small Scales, orange Scales, pink, detail Scales, pink Scales, red Shingles

DUNKLEY HISTORIES LOWE HISTORIES FRANKLIN & WHITNEY, IDAHO CHARTS & MAPS

PHOTO GALLERY


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Shoe forms Child shoes, bottom Shoes, side Skull message, detail Skull message Spindles, woolen mill Spindles 2

Spindles 3 Spinning wheel 1 Spinning wheel, side Spinning wheel 2 SW2 Head assembly Splitting shingles Steam engine

Store in Frankin Stove, detail Stove, cast iron Sythe English teapot 1 English teapot 2 Telegraph display

Ticket, SL temple Toy, front Toy, angle Weaving, spinning tools Wool cards, detail Wool cards Woolen mill


Writing slate Wall, Relic Hall 1 Wall, Relic Hall 2 Wall, Relic Hall 3 Wall, Relic Hall 4 Wall, Relic Hall 5Wall, Relic Hall 6

DU NK LE Y HI STOR IE S LOWE H IS TOR IE S F RAN KL IN & WHI TN EY, IDAHO CHARTS & MAPS

PHOTO GALLERY


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A blacksmith anvil brought toFranklin in 860 by Peter Lowe.Complex metal devices such

as a large steam engine to runthe saw mill in 87werepurchased back East.

A ball of linen twine spunby Ann Doney. Citizens inFranklin bringing advancedskills such as cloth making

and shingle making from theirhomelands in Europe helpedthe settlement get on its feetand go on to prosper.


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A bear trap owned byHarold Baker.

The trap was hid-den under leavesand twigs and an-chored to a nearbytree. When the bearstepped on the trig-

ger release peddle,the jaws snappedshut, in effect chain-ing the animal to thetree until the trap-per came back andshot it. There are

stories of trappedanimals chewing offthe trapped foot toescape.


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Home-made benches. In the early days of Franklin, the settlers brought their

own chairs and benches to Sunday worship services.


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A butter churn. Selling eggs and butter was one of the ways the

womens Relief Society in early Franklin had of raising money for

charitable projects.


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A butter ladle made by Elliot Butterworth.Homemade butter is whitish in color andfairly bland tasting until salt is added.


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The remains ofa stone cabin inWhitney, Idaho builtby John Doney'sfriend, WhilliamWhitehead.

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Candle molds A chair owned by John Doney. Like thechair, its owner had fairly short legs.



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A clock owned by Robert Lowe



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Cloth made by Ann G.Doney. Up until 878when a water-pow-ered woolen mill wascompleted in Frank-lin, cloth was eitherproduced at home orbrought in from theoutside.



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Cloth made by Ann G.Doney



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A cast iron cooking pot A cast iron cooking pan



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The Franklin Mercantile Co-op. Eventually theco-op was used as the first relic hall, or mu-seum, in the area. It stands next to a muchlarger relic hall built in the 930s.

A stone f ireplace madefrom stones used in the firstschoolhouse in Franklin



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The first Mormonchapel constructedin Idaho was built inFranklin. Heavy snowscaused the roof to col-lapse before the proj-

ect was completed. Tothe great dissapoint-ment of the local con-gregation, the structuresat unfinished for nineyears until it could berepaired.



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The first schoolhousebuilt in Franklin. Whilelocal tradition liked tocall this the first school

built in Idaho, it wasactually the first schoolbuilt for white childrenin Idaho. The Spaldingsbuilt a school for theNez Perce Indians atLapwai in 837.

Spring rains wouldcause the sod roofon the school to leak,prompting a vacation.

Top: a drawing of theschool; Bottom: a mod-

el of the school after ithad been expanded.



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L: Another view of the schoohouse model. R: Hannah Comish, Franklins first

school teacher, began by inviting the children of the settlement into her home.

The settlers placed great emphasis on seeing that their children received an

education.



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The C.U. Bradford flourmill in Franklin is be-lieved to have been built

in 888 by John Nufferand Joseph Chatterton.

The structure was dam-aged by fire in 924 andfurther destroyed in942.

A glass water dipper. Aseam across the bottom

of the glass cup suggeststhat it was fabricated in amold.


DUNKLEY HISTORIES LOWE HISTORIES FRANKLIN & WHITNEY IDAHO CHARTS & MAPSPHOTO GALLERY


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Glass dipper

A grinding stone madefrom rock at RattlesnakePoint. A shaft would havefit through the squarehole in the center of the

stone. The shaft wouldhave been connected toa source of power suchas a water wheel.




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Horse shoes

A jail cell was con-structed in the base-ment of the Franklintown hall early in

the 20th Century. Awell-behaved man-nequin is the onlyrecent inmate.




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The entrance to theold Franklin jail

Lath, made in theThomas Lowe Shin-gle and Lath Mill,located just east ofFranklin. This wasthe first mill of itskind in Idaho




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A shuttle used in a handloom by Ann Doney. Theweaver strung yarn ver-tically in the loom, then

ran yarn attached to theshuttle back and forthhorizontally between thefibers.

The head of a woodenmaul used to split shin-ges. This maul camefrom the Wells Fargo

Blacksmith shop.




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Wooden maul used to split shinges.This maul came from the Wells FargoBlacksmith shop.

A cast iron gear from a shin-gle mill. Local creeks wereharnessed to power the firstmechanized industries inFranklin.




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Close-up of the cast iron

gear from a shingle mill.Construction of a mill wasdirected by a specialistcalled a mill wright.

A mill stone used for grind-ing flournow gracingthe old Franklin Mercan-tile building. A second mill

stone would have beenmounted on top of this oneand rotated against it. Chan-nels cut in the surface of thestone allowed flour to traveloutwards to be collected.




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The main gear wheel from one of Franklins water-powered mills. A shaft

connected to the water wheel ran through the middle of this wheel and

transfered the power of the falling water to the rest of the device through

gears and belts.




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The gear wheel from the mill.Wheel inspector: Laurie Dunkley.

Molasses guage. In the early days ofFranklin, molasses was used for almosteverything we use refined sugar fortoday.




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Square style nails

Hay forks. George Leeof Franklin discovered

the three-tined fork onhis property.




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A molding planeowned by ThomasLowetop and bottomviews. Two separateblades set at differentheights in the plane cuta decorative pattern inthe thin strip of wood

used for trim molding.Nowadays, molding is

cut by feeding strips

of wood through a

machine with high

speed rotary blades

cut in the profile ofthe desired pattern.




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An iron bladed plow.

The farmer stood

behind the plow andgrasped the handles.

A horse harnessed to

the plow pulled it for-

ward through the soil.

In the first days of the

Franklin settlement,plows were fashionedfrom boards or thick,sharpened sticks. Thesingle, horse-drawnplow eventually gaveway to horse-drawn

plows with mulipleblades and finally toplows drawn by motor-ized tractors.




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The case of a pocket watch owned by Robert G. Lowes grandfather in Scot-land, 80

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Ellen Nash worked at the Franklin post officein 94. Ellens sister, Laura Nash, served as thepostmaster at the time.

Railroad items. The pear-shaped plate is one of thefirst fish plates used on theUtah Northern Railroad,Franklin, 874.

,



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Utah and Northern Rail-road. This was an early nar-row guage line. The photo

probably was taken eitherat the engine house at Lo-gan, Utah, or the engineterminal at Battle Creek,Idaho. Circa 885

The Franklin Relic Hall. In98 Elliot Butterworthstarted buying his neigh-bors old keepsakes attheir estate sales. He

organized the growingcollection into the areasfirst museum in the oldco-op building. The cur-rent relic hall was con-structed in the 930s.



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A ribbon from the Idaho Pio-neer Day Celebration, 92.

The ribbon is stored in a stringclasp envelope. Eliza Lowe re-ceived a ribbon at the first Ida-ho Day in 90.

Thanks to Elliot Butterworth and his family,the Franklin Relic Hall contains a collectionof items chronicling the history of Franklin,Idaho. The Relic Hall is run by the Idaho StateHistorical Society and is open to the public.



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A model of a roadometerinvented by Laura Lowesuncle, Thomas G. Lowe.

The device connected toa wagon wheel and ac-curately kept track of thedistance covered in miles.

Over time a beliefemerged in some circlesthat the device had been

invented by Orson Pratt.Searching back issues ofthe Deseret News, Lowelocated a newspaper arti-cle dated August 6, 876that backed up his claimas the inventor and settled

the matter.

To read the text of thearticle, Hold your mousecursor HERE .



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A newspaper article reporting thatThomas G. Lowe had proved his claimas the inventor of a roadometer, a de-vice for measuring distance.

A large saw aboutfive feet long



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A hand saw

A scales



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Weights for the scales

below

A scale from the Com-puting Scales Companyof Dayton, Ohio.



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A scale from the Fair-banks company

Shingles from ThomasLowes shingle mill. Theshingle mill was a wel-come addition to the

community for it meantthat the citizens couldreplace the sod roofson their homes withshingled roofs.



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Forms used for makingshoes. The three in thefront are made of woodand the one in the backis made of iron.

Shoes for a child. Whatappears to be greentrim are rows of cop-

per tacks that haveoxidized. The soles arereinforced with smallstrips of metal like tinyhorse shoes.



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Shoes for a child, side view Close up of a tribute to the Ida-ho pioneers, penciled on a cowskull by John Doney and WilliamWhitehead



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IN MEMORY OF IDAHO PIONEERS

We crossed the plains in Hand Cart Com-pany in 856 came north and camped onthe banks of Spring Creek in Cache Valleynow Franklin, in 860.

Signed, John Doney & William Whitehead

Spools for yarn from the Frank-

lin woolen mill. The mill was setup and run by Edmund Buckley, awoolen mill expert from Great Brit-ain who set up several other millsin Cache Valley prior to the one inFranklin.



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Spools for yarn from the Franklin woolen mill. The settlers would bring theirwool to the mill to be made into yarn, cloth, woolen goods and flannel. Theywould pay for the service by leaving a portion of their wool at the mill. Someof the settlers would take the woolen goods out into the community to sellto others.



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Two views of a spinning wheel owned by Thomas G. Lowe and used for spin-ning flax. The settlers made rough linen towels and shirts out of the spun flax.



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A spinning wheel owned by Danish immigrant, Kusen Margarethe ValentinsenKeller. Kusen and her husband, James, settled first in Brigham City, Utah, andlater were among the f irst settlers in Mink Creek, Idaho.



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Splitting lath by hand.When Thomas Lowebuilt a water-powered

shingle and lath millin Franklin the settlersmoved en masse fromhaving sod roofs ontheir houses to shingledroofs.

Steam engine broughtto Franklin to power asawmill. 300,000 feet oflumber were cut at themill for the ZCMI storein Salt Lake City as wellas railroad ties that thathelped to bring the rail-road to Franklin.



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A building in Franklinlocated at the corner ofHighway 9 and Main.

Mayor Joshua Hawkesdeeded block toThomas Smart on June6, 880. For a num-ber of years, Robert G.Lowe ran a furniturestore in the building.

Close up of a cast ironstove



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A cast iron stove A cradle sythe. Modeled by LaurieDunkley



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English teapot brought byWilliam Whitehead

Tin teapot which WilliamWhitehead brought acrossthe plains in a handcart in

856



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Deseret Telegraph extend-ed lines to Franklin in 868.While the telegraph officewas initially set up in the

Co-op, it was later movedto the home of L. L. Hatchwhere one of the mostdramatic stories of thetime was relayed to therest of the world: GeneralGeorge Custers fatal at-

tack on the Sioux Indians.

A ticket to the dedicationof the Mormon temple inSalt Lake City. After fortyyears of obstaclesnot

the least of which was theUS governmentthe re-markable granite structurewas completed in 893.



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Two views of a toy swing that saws wood. Belonged to Thomas G. Lowe.Thomas was Laura Lowe Dunkleys uncle. Given Thomas ingenuity andcraftsmanship, Uncle Thomas may have created the toy himself.



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Weaving and spinningitems

Wool cards. Carding thewool aligned the fiberswhich was important step

in getting the wool readyfor spinning it into yarn.



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Wool cards

The North Star Woolen Millwas one of the first water-powered industries in inFranklin. Everything from

making the soap to washthe wool to making thedye to color the wool wasdone in the mill. The millreceived many prizes forits work.



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A writing slate. Before paper came into use at the school, the chil-dren practiced writing and and doing arithmetic on slates.



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Portraits of the founding fathers and mothers of Franklin, Idaho line the wallsof the Franklin Relic Hall. These views of the walls start by looking at the frontwindow of the building, above left, and pivot around over the next two pag-es to the back windw of the building.



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Portraits of the founding fathers and mothers of Franklin displayed at theFranklin Relic Hall. In the photo on the left, Will Dunkleys parents, Joseph andMargaret, are on the second row up, on the right. His maternal grandmother,Deborah Ann Wright, is on the top row, far right. His wifes parents, Robert andMary Jane Lowe are just to the left of Deborah Ann.



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