ROCKY BAR
Ghost Town — Rocky Bar, Elmore County, Idaho
Status: Historic site · Access: Access unknown
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/rocky-bar-rocky-bar-idaho/

Former mining camp with preserved community architecture.

A ghost town in Rocky Bar, Idaho, Rocky Bar is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Former mining camp with preserved community architecture. It sits in the archive under ghost towns. The dossier holds 1 documented fact — a documented spine with no haunting reports attached. Visitor status is unverified; confirm before making the trip.

Rocky Bar is the camp that was almost Idaho's capital — the South Boise strike of 1863 that stamped fifteen hundred miners over the ridges to the Feather River diggings, the town founded that December that ran Alturas County for eighteen years and sat as Elmore's first seat. Two thousand five hundred at the peak, the arastras of the Spanishtown miners still on the ground, the Boise Basin's restless prospectors having finally found their ledge.
The county seat went to Hailey in 1882 and the fire took the rest — the town burned more than once, the Masonic Hall George Golden rebuilt in 1892 still standing with the post office interior saved to Boise's museum. The legend of the old Spanish mine before the gold rush is folklore the records don't support — the Spaniards were 1866 arrivals, not conquistadors — but the camp that was nearly a territorial capital is a real ghost town eight miles off the pavement.
The file keeps Rocky Bar: the 1863 stampede, the county-seat years, the fires, and the Masonic Hall that remains.
Rocky Bar is the archive's South Boise file — the camp that ran two counties and burned down to its Masonic hall.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Rocky Bar is the archive's South Boise file — the 1863 gold camp and the near-capital that burned.
A county seat that lost keeps its hall — the file's suggestion being that Rocky Bar's hold is the almost: eighteen years a county seat, once considered for the territorial capital, now a ghost town where the Masonic lodge and the saved post office are what's left of the ambition.

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· Gold was found in 1863; George Golden rebuilt the Masonic Hall after an 1892 fire. Rocky Bar's history is documented — boom, bust, and desertion all on record, the lore layered on top. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. Sources including 'Rocky Bar Masonic Hall' carry the record. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Rocky Bar Masonic Hall — Idaho Heritage Trust
  https://mail.idahoheritage.org/assets/popups/sw/sw_rocky.html

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