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=== History === | === History === | ||
When the Oregon Short Line Railroad was built through Idaho, a station known as Squaw Creek Station was established on a small stream know as Squaw Creek, where a water tank was built, and also a saw mill owned by Joseph Tolman a Latter-day Saint, who lived in Chesterfield. John Ashton took up a ranch about one and a half miles southwest of the station and burned line. Other settlers came in later and Ira Call opened the first store in the station. The community was named for William H. Bancroft, railroad executive. The total population of the Bancroft Precinct was 587 in 1930. | |||
Additional history of Bancroft, Idaho and the early Mormon settlers there can be found in: <br>Andrew Jenson. Encyclopedic History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Salt Lake City: Deseret News Publishing Company, 1941, p. 40.<br> | |||
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