2012 JKHF "Leland History" Publication:  Available at our LOCUST BLOSSOM booths (see below)

   Leland is six miles up a grade from the North-Central Idaho valley community of Kendrick resting atop Potlatch Ridge.   It is nearly a ghost town today with a claim to six dwellings, one church, and one business.  JKHF's 400 plus page historical publication merges past history with present realities.  Numerous documenting pictures and revealing stories paint a vivid picture of the characters, families, decisions, and events that shaped this Idaho territorial footprint called Leland.

    Homestead records indicate 1879 conditions enchanted people to set down roots in the rich, fertile area that became the community of Leland.  Optimistic settlers opened a post office in 1888 and the town, named for Alonzo Leland, was born.  Dances, roller-skating, saloons, barbershops, doctors, schools, farm and ranch support businesses, as well as churches were also a draw to this community’s development. Leland was the site of Nez Perce County’s first homicide.

    Its heyday, lasting from 1890 to 1930, the town contributed a significant population base to the county.   The Methodist’s established a church in 1890 holding their services in the town’s schoolhouse.  Their last church, built in 1930, is the only church these days that offers religious services in Leland.  The sole business, currently in town, survives by providing chemicals to the surrounding farmers.  

To Order send $33.00/book ($36.00 if mailed) to JKHF Postal address:  P.O. Box 37 Kendrick, ID 83537.  For additional details contact: Sharon Harris  sugie@dishmail.net  (208) 289-4622.  View and purchase it beginning in May at Kendrick Hardware, Red Cross Pharmacy and at our display in the Kendrick Grange at the Kendrick Locust Blossom Festival on Saturday May 26th.

We are APPRECIATIVE of our 2012 PROJECT Financial Contributors!

In addition to shopping locally, we urge you to support the sources that fund our community enriching projects.

2012 Historic Walking Tour Project Overview: JKHF recently accepted the comprehensive care of the 15-year-old Juliaetta and Kendrick Walking Tour.  As a spring 2012 rejuvenation project, our first priority is to replace each of the site signs (beginning with the business district signs and progress to the historic home signs) and to enhance the Walking Tour booklet.  A Walking Tour CD production will then follow.  The CD will elaborate on tour booklet details using local pioneers as storytellers, music of the times and additional photos.  Walking Tour items will be available at Kendrick Hardware and other business supporting partners during the summer of 2012.

J-K Historical Tour Committee Accomplishments:

•   March 2012: Site history research began

•   April 2012: Sign design determined and sent to sign maker

•   May 2012:  Completed Kendrick business district sign delivered

2012 "HOME" Preparations Overview: JKHF looks forward to our new home being located on the second floor of the 108 year old Kendrick Fraternal Temple Building. The floor plan points to allocating a 28 ft. x 48 ft. room for public historical meetings/events, research, and museum displays.  Our archival storage area is attached to this room. 2012 plans include Grand Room insulating then painting. Our entire area requires an electrical wiring update, lighting, heating and restroom restoration. An energy audit will help with energy efficient heating and insulation determinations. Attention to a handicapped access is also required.

JKHF WWII Publications: “Letters From the Front” is publication of the letters written home by soldiers who called the area in and around Kendrick and Juliaetta Idaho home.  Volume I includes 1945 WWII communications home with Volume II containing letters written in the early WWII years.  For additional information: "Letters From the Front".  The biographical surname index of soldiers listed in Volume I is at the link: Vol. I Surname Index and the soldiers provided in Volume II is listed on the link: Vol. II Table of Contents .  Both books are available for purchase at Kendrick Hardware (701 E. Main) and Red Cross Pharmacy (509 E. Main in Kendrick).

A  "Letters From the Front-- Volume II" Reader's Comment:

OH MY GOSH,

The book arrived today, and I can barely put it down. Thank you so much to you and your committee for putting together this very important piece of our history from the small town of Kendrick, Idaho and surrounding area that provided so much man/woman power in World War II. But for the lives of these very very brave people, we would be speaking Japanese or German, or worse, never have been born.

Thank you for the book and more importantly, thank you to those brave souls and families for putting their lives on the line that we may live in this great land of freedom. May it ever be so.

Caroline

Other PROMINENT JKHF PROJECTS:  Find additional project details: About JKHF

•  SOUTHWICK: Stories, Pictures, & family histories are NOW being collected for our 2013 publication.  Contact Sharon Harris (contact details at the bottom of this page) to share. 

• NEWSLETTER: 2011 Year in Review & 2012 Plans -(View with Adobe software installed on your computer)

•  Pictures & Stories of KENDRICK & Brands: "A Complete History of Kendrick" is being worked on. Contact Sharon Harris (contact details at the bottom of this page) to share what you have.  Additionally a historical pamphlet of brands used by area local cattlemen is being prepared for printing.

•  LELAND, SOUTHWICK, WILD ROSE and CAMERON CEMETERIES:  On-line cemetery researchers now have enhanced data on many of our local cemetery residents thanks to JKHF members.  Matching tombstone photos, providing specific grave locations and resident's obituaries link: Find A Grave . For more information: Cemetery Links .  Leland Cemetery data is now up to date with Cameron Cemetery having only a few details to be researched. Attention is now being given to Wild Rose Cemetery and Southwick Cemetery.

•  Local PHOTO Web VIEWING: A selection of JKHF's photo archives can be viewed and purchased at the link we share with Milt Patterson's Photograph.  It is continually being added to from over 3,000 photo's currently collected.  You are encouraged to view it often! 

•  PHOTO Viewing BUSINESS LOCATIONS: Our digital photo units display local historical pictures at:

  •  Simple Joys Antiques & Gifts (609 E. Main in Kendrick)--Selling antiques, collectibles, Vintage, Glassware, Jewelry, Local art.

  •  Red Cross Pharmacy (509 E. Main in Kendrick)--A Drug Store that sells gifts as well as our JKHF publications. 

MEETING DETAILS:

Day/Time: 3rd Thursday of each Month, 7:00 p.m. is the summer meeting start time and often at 3:30 p.m. in the winter.

Location:  Kendrick Fraternal Temple (Grange) Building street level space (614 East Main Street) in Kendrick Idaho.

How to SHARE & FIND KEEPSAKES:

Milt at Kendrick Hardware (701 East Main Street) can scan any photo, negative or slides you wish to share with the JKHF for present and future generations. The shared item will then be returned to you.  Cross references will be made so others can easily enjoy what has been provided to our archives.  This site's Research Links link provides diverse research possibilities.  Some JKHF photo archives can be viewed at the link we share with Milt Patterson's Photograph.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Telephone:  Sharon Harris, President  (208) 289-4622

JKHF Postal address:  P.O. Box 37 Kendrick, ID 83537

JKHF Web Site Address:  jkhf.info

 E-mail:

    Product Purchases/Archives: Sharon Harris, President  sugie@dishmail.net

          General JKHF Information:  jkheritagefoundation@jkhf.info

    Webmaster: waider@tds.net

History shows us Who we Were, Who we Are, and Who we may Become.