From the 1850s to the 1950s, Latter-day Saints built about 100 tabernacles in communities across the western United States. They were primarily places of worship but also served as a gathering place for the community. While more than half of the 100-plus-year-old...
Oakley Main Street on a busy day Oakley Main Street from Tabernacle...
(Kay Badger shares some memories of Oakley High School) All of William Alvin’s and Parley’s children attended Oakley high school. Aunt Hattie (Hattie Tolman Stinger), the youngest was in high school when William Alvin and Hattie Naomi moved to Pocatello in 1939. My...
John Adams served on the Board of Directors of this Oakley Bank. John Adams was the father of Opal Adams who married William Odell...
The Oakley Academy was a high school operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) located in Oakley, Idaho. It was founded in 1901. By 1906, it had 130 students and six teachers, and its building and grounds were valued at $12,000 dollars....
(Kay Badger shares his childhood memories of going to his Grandpa Parley Lambert Tolman’s farm in Oakley, Idaho). I remember going to Grandpa Tolman’s Farm in Oakley during the summers and staying for weeks to help Grandpa on his farm. He had dairy cows,...
(From short history of Alice Bracken written by her daughter Minnie Elizabeth Tolman Pickett. She describes her family’s arrival to the Oakley Valley.) I well remember the day we drove down into the Oakley valley. The weather was hot and dry, the dust five or...
(Dolores Allred shares her memories of visiting her Grandmother Mary Alice Tolman’s house.) It was a dirt road that passed in front of Grandma’s property. A rickety bridge over the small irrigation ditch led through a swinging iron gate into the grassy...
Picture: Cyrus and his children around 1901 (Standing from left to right: John Albert, Joshua Alvin, Alvaretta Jane, Aaron Alexander, and Judson Isaac; Sitting from left to right: William Augustus, Cyrus Ammon, Minnie Elizabeth, Cyrus, Alice Ann) “Having done a...
