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Wallace is a historic city in the Panhandle region of the U.S. state of Idaho and the county seat of Shoshone County〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 in the Silver Valley mining district. Wallace sits alongside the South Fork Coeur d'Alene River (and Interstate 90) and the town's population was 784 at the 2010 census. Wallace is the principal town of the Coeur d'Alene silver-mining district, which produced more silver than any other mining district in the United States. Burke-Canyon Road runs through historic mining communities – many of them now deserted – north and eastward toward the Montana state line. East of Wallace, the ''Route of the Hiawatha'' (rails-to-trails) and the Lookout Pass ski area are popular with locals and tourists. The elevation is above sea level. ==History== The city was named for Colonel W.R. Wallace, a landowner.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Profile for Wallace, Idaho )〕 In 1890, Shoshone County was the most populated county in the new state of Idaho, and Wallace was its largest city and the third largest in the state, with 2000 residents. The area periodically experienced open warfare between miners and mine owners. Hard rock miners in Shoshone County protested wage cuts with a strike in 1892. After several lost their lives in a shooting war provoked by discovery of a company spy, the U.S. Army forced an end to the strike. Hostilities erupted once again in 1899 when, in response to the company firing seventeen men for joining the union, the miners dynamited the Bunker Hill & Sullivan mill. Again, lives were lost, and the Army intervened. One third of the town of Wallace was destroyed by the Great Fire of 1910, which burned about in Washington, Idaho, and Montana. In 1979, several blocks of downtown Wallace were listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district, the Wallace Historic District.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NRHP/Photos/83000289.pdf )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NRHP/Text/83000289.pdf )〕 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「Wallace, Idaho」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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