Buhl (Idaho)

Twin Falls County

16-10810

History

The oldest traces of human settlement in the region around Buhl found in the Wilson Butte Cave. They count with more than 10,000 and up to 15,000 years, the oldest in North America. The cave was still used in 1500. The older tracks may belong to the Fremont culture, further south, which focused in the states of Utah, Idaho, Colorado and Nevada, and which existed at 700-1300. Residents operated farming (corn, beans, squash, nuts, berries, onions ), were semi-nomadic, made ​​pottery and baskets. Also, they left behind small sculptures, petroglyphs and pictographs. Perhaps the findings came as well from the barter with the southern neighbors.

The oldest human remains date from the directory named after the place Buhl woman who lived around 10,700 years ago.

Before the arrival of white settlers lived in the region, the tribes of the Northern Shoshone, the northern Paiute and the Bannock, the latter may constitute the most northerly group of Paiute.

Before 1853 a smallpox epidemic decimated the Bannock. They were defeated by the U.S. Army. Other American Indian groups had to submit the resettlement policy and were forced into the Fort Hall Reservation.

The place Buhl was founded on April 17, 1906 and named after Frank H. Buhl of Sharon, Pennsylvania. He was the main investor in the Twin Falls South Side project, an irrigation project for the Magic Valley. Since 1906 and again in 1947, the state invested in 14 fish farms, which made the southern Idaho become the largest producer of trout.

Economy

Buhl is known as " Trout Capital of the World" ( Trout capital of the world ), because there the most fish farms are for rainbow trout. Clear Springs Foods, immediately north of Buhl, and its competitors, processing more than 76 % of American trout needs. This production began in the late 1940s.