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Malad City (also commonly known as Malad) is the only city in Oneida County, Idaho, United States.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 Its population was 2,095 at the 2010 census, down from 2,158 in 2000.〔(Spokesman-Review ) - 2010 census - Malad City, Idaho - accessed 2011-12-27〕 The city is named after the nearby Malad River, the name being French for "sickly".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Profile for Malad City, Idaho, ID )〕 Malad City is located along Interstate 15 on the east side of the Malad Valley from the Utah/Idaho border. ==History== Established in 1864, Malad is one of the oldest communities in the state of Idaho. The community received its name from Donald Mackenzie, a Scottish-Canadian trapper, who passed through the valley between 1818 and 1821 with a party of trappers. Some of his men became sick while camped here and, believing that the illness was caused by drinking water from the valley's principal stream, he named it "Malade" meaning sick or bad in the French language. Actually, the water had nothing to do with the men's illness, as it was later learned by the second party led by Jim Bridger between 1832 and 1835. The men had most likely eaten some beaver that fed on the poisonous roots of "Water Hemlock" trees that put a naturally occurring "cicutoxin" into the animals' flesh. The beaver would have likely been immune to the poison because of long-term adaptation, but the trappers suffered from their feast. Native tribes avoided this outcome by altering food preparation methods to include boiling, which apparently deactivated the poison.〔〔McDevitt, T. (2001). Idaho's Malad Valley: A History. Little Red Hen, Inc. ISBN 093304609X)〕 Malad began largely as a Welsh Mormon settlement whose settlers brought their Welsh traditions with them. In addition to the Mormon majority, some of the leading families in the community belonged to either the Presbyterian Church or the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. These two denominations each built a place of worship in the town. Some of the minutes from early town meetings were taken down in both English and Welsh. The city is very proud of its Welsh heritage. Malad lays claim to having more people of Welsh descent per capita than anywhere outside of Wales (). Malad celebrated its Welsh heritage by holding an annual “eisteddfod”, patterned after the music and poetry contests held in Wales for over 900 years. The eisteddfod was an all-day event with people coming from all over southeastern Idaho. The event featured music, songs and storytelling of Wales. The custom continued until 1916 and the outbreak of World War I. With the goal of renewing the old eisteddfod tradition in Malad, in 2004, the annual (Malad Valley Welsh Festival ) was established. In the summer of 1843 John C. Fremont and his party of 39 men passed the spot where Malad City now stands. Mormon prophet Brigham Young came through the Malad Valley in 1855. In 1856, at his request, Utahn members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints migrated to the region. This party of 15 families led by Ezra Barnard traveled to the Malad Valley and established a community by the name of Fort Stuart. The following year in 1857, Fort Stuart was renamed Malad City. A post office was later set up in 1865. By 1886 Malad City was the fastest growing village in eastern Idaho. The city was an important commercial center between Salt Lake and Butte, Montana. In 1906, the railroad reached Malad City, allowing travel to Salt Lake City in only a four hour ride by rail. The population of the city would double over the next 15 years as a result. Malad City experienced a flood when the earthen Deep Creek Dam, northeast of the city, broke June 19, 1910. Malad City, as the county seat of Oneida County, developed into a thriving and self-sufficient small town during the second through the fifth decades of the 20th century. LaGrande Hall was a dance hall where live music was played when ballroom dancing was a popular activity. Young people, not just Malad residents, but those from surrounding communities, met there on Saturday nights to enjoy dancing to the popular music of the 1920s through the 1940s (the community swimming pool is now located in that building). Malad also became home to the #5 J. C. Penney Store. Malad had two movie theaters: the Star and the Aldea. The Star featured first run films, and had a bank night weekly, where a winning ticket (name) was drawn for $100 in the 1950s. The Aldea catered to the younger set with Friday night and Saturday matinee cowboy movies, horror movies and comedies such as the Three Stooges and Abbott and Costello. The two locally established banking institutions were the J. N. Ireland Bank and the First National Bank. In addition to several grocery stores and service stations, there were bars, cafes, hardware stores, appliance stores, Dives Furniture Store and the Great Northern Hotel which included a cafe and the local Greyhound bus stop. The Hotel was lost in a fire in 1948, which required fire engines from the Tremonton, Logan and Brigham City fire departments to bring it under control. The Hotel Thomas was built to replace it during the early 1950s. The Reynolds family ran a pick-up and delivery dry cleaning business. Malad had a bowling alley with about eight lanes and manual pin setting. The old post office was located east of the First National Bank and the Idaho Enterprise (weekly) Newspaper presses and office were housed in the basement of the post office building. The bank/post office building was a beautiful example of period architecture from the early 20th century, but has sadly been torn down. In the 1950s Malad had two drug stores, each with its own soda fountain for made-to-order soft drinks and a variety of ice cream treats. There was the Peck Building next to the Chevron service station which had medical offices for two physicians on the main floor and apartments on the upper floor. There were separate GM, Ford and Chrysler dealerships. As a farming community, farm machinery could be purchased locally. Malad had three barber shops, the Christoffersons, Ernest Williams and Edwin Jones. In the late 1950s a drive-in restaurant with car hops was established and continues (but under new ownership). There was a ladies dress shop called "Hazels," next to the Star Theater. There was even a store which sold bicycles and bicycle supplies and parts. A favorite business, B's, was the place to go for candy, soft drinks, snacks, beer, movie magazines, comics, sheet music and to play pin ball machines. A magnitude 6.1 earthquake shook the Pocatello Valley near the Idaho-Utah border March 27, 1975. The epicenter was only southwest of Malad City which was hit hardest by the quake. Nearly 2/3 of its homes and businesses had some sort of damage. Malad City received national news coverage when a corporate jet carrying eight people including four Coca-Cola executives crashed January 15, 1996 killing all onboard (). The large twin-engine turbo-prop was flying from Salt Lake City, Utah to Pocatello, Idaho for a Coca- Cola sales meeting. The Mitsubishi MU-2 aircraft crashed and burned at the base of a canyon northwest of Malad. According to the National Transportation Safety Board in its published (SEA96MA043 Accident Report ), the cause of the accident was listed as ice on the wings. Towards the end of 2003, a nationwide influenza outbreak occurred. Malad was likely the hardest hit community in the nation. So many people became ill during the first part of December, 2003 that the city was virtually shut down. The entire school district in Malad was closed for three days in an effort to keep students from spreading the ailment. Roughly a third of the students became ill. Church services and Christmas festivities were also cancelled. Malad City has the oldest department store in the state of Idaho. Evans Co-op opened in 1865 and is still in business today. Malad City also has the longest running weekly newspaper in Idaho, called "The Idaho Enterprise" which published its first issue on June 6, 1879.〔''Idaho Enterprise'' front page banner〕 Because of its proximity to Utah, which has no state lottery, Malad has become a major retail site for the Idaho Lottery. The Top Stop Gasoline and Convenience store in Malad is responsible for 3 percent of Idaho's lottery sales, and the town as a whole accounts for over 19 percent of state sales. Only Boise, the state's largest city, has higher lotto sales. Over the 22-year history of the Idaho Lottery, it is estimated that Utahns have provided $54.1 million in lottery profits, which Idaho then uses for its own capital works and school funding. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Malad City, Idaho」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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