Frontier Life

Life in Dixie was typical frontier life. The most common medium of exchange was meat, grains, and vegtables. In 1866 the Dixie Slough School District #6 had 18 pupils with Miss Kate Flournay as a teacher.

The Reverand B.F. Morrow has not been here long until the Good Hope Baptist Church was organized and held services at the 12x14-foot log Dixie school.

Settlers all along the river had a ready market for hay, fresh vegetables, and meat with the great number of miners in the Boise Basin.

The thought of the Ward Massacre just a few years previous was hard to forget

Mrs. Emma McKenzie, whose cabin is also in the Caldwell Park...

...has several occasions to use her loaded shotgun when her husband was away freighting.

Their home in 1865 was in the river canyon in the area of Curtis Park, names for her brother.