City of Rocks
Posted by: brwhiz
N 42° 15.274 W 113° 52.923
12T E 262259 N 4682063
This historic marker is located on Idaho Highway 27 (Center Street) just north of Oakley.
Waymark Code: WMJN5X
Location: Idaho, United States
Date Posted: 12/07/2013
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City of Rocks
A vast display of towering granite rocks (16 miles southeast of here) attracted emigrants who were on their way to California.
A gold rush visitor, July 14, 1849, reported that "you can imagine among these massive piles, church domes, spires, pyramids...with a little fancying you can see anything from the Capitol at Washington to a lowly thatched cottage." Emigrants who never had seen anything like that before were impressed by so many "rocks of the most singular shapes." City of Rocks is a National Historic Landmark as well as a National Natural Landmark.