Moscow's History
Created on: December 7th, 2006
Photo: Moscow in 1883
On a large plateau north of the Snake River Valley is the land known as The Palouse, a land famous for its deep, rich top soil and rolling hills. The first settlers to arrive in 1869 named the shallow valley where they built their
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Photo: Moscow in 1883
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On a large plateau north of the Snake River Valley is the land known as The Palouse, a land famous for its deep, rich top soil and rolling hills. The first settlers to arrive in 1869 named the shallow valley where they built their homes Paradise Valley.
Almon Ashbury Lieuallen established a "shoebox post office" under the name Paradise Valley as part of his general store in 1872. In 1875 the post office name was changed to Moscow. Allegedly Lieuallen chose the name Moscow because he believed that the isolation of the community was creating problems comparable to those of Moscow, Russia, during the "time of troubles" under Ivan the Terrible.
A visitor in 1880 described Moscow as "just a lane between two farms with a flax field on one side and a post office on the other." During the next five years the town grew to a population of 300 and a branch of the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Co. (Unio
Union Pacific) linked Moscow to the rest of the country.
By 1888 Moscow had become the largest city in Nez Perce County and made an effort to obtain the county seat. This attempted failed, but Representative Fred Dubois succeeded in pushing a bill through the US Congress carving Latah County out of northern Nez Perce County. Moreover, Moscow was made Latah County seat and in 1889 Moscow became the site for Idaho's land grant college, the University of Idaho. In exchange, Moscow had to agree to drop its support for the movement to join Washington in statehood. Latah County may be the only county ever formed by an act of Congress.
The University of Idaho and farming remain the area's primary industries.
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