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Spalding is an unincorporated community in the northwest United States, located in northern Nez Perce County, Idaho. Description. The community is located ten miles (16 km) east and upstream of Lewiston, on the Clearwater River, at the mouth of the Lapwai Valley.
Nez Perce National Historical Park was established in 1965, and a museum was opened at the park headquarters in Spalding, Idaho, in 1983. The 38 discontiguous sites span three main ecoregions , covering a wide range of elevations and climate.
In 1935, the site of the mission was preserved by the State of Idaho. Thirty years later, in 1965, Nez Perce National Historical Park was created by an act of Congress and what was known as Spalding Park became the headquarters and visitor center for Nez Perce National Historical Park.
Spalding, Idaho. Spalding is 10 miles east of Lewiston, originated in 1895 and was named for the Reverend Henry Harmon Spalding, a Presbyterian missionary from New England, who established a mission in 1836 on Lapwai Creek, near this location among the Nez Perce Indians.
3 dic 2023 · The Spalding area is home to the Nez Perce National Historical Park's visitor center, museum, and park headquarters along with several historic sites, including the Watson's Store, the Indian Agency's cabin and agent's residence, remnants of the Spalding Mission, and archelogical remains of the gristmill, sawmill, and associated millraces.
29 apr 2023 · In 1836, Henry and Eliza Spalding accompanied Marcus and Narcissa Whitman over the Rocky Mountains to open missions in the Pacific Northwest. Whereas Whitman selected a spot near the Walla Walla River , the Spaldings went further east to settle among the Nez Perce.
East of Lewiston, it was located on the west bank of Lapwai Creek, three miles (5 km) above where it joins the Clearwater River at the state's first settlement, Lapwai Mission Station (now Spalding), built in 1836 by Henry Spalding. It is part of the multi-site Nez Perce National Historical Park.
