The Henry Store of Henry Idaho
by Priscilla Burgers
Title
The Henry Store of Henry Idaho
Artist
Priscilla Burgers
Medium
Photograph - Photography
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THE HENRY STORE OF HENRY IDAHO
Henry is a surviving reminiscent example of numerous small towns, trading posts and gathering places for early day settlers, stockmen, cowboys, and sheepherders. Founded by a Dutch pioneer around 1884, Henry thrived as a center for cattle ranchers of the area and the transient sheep herders. A large sheep-sheering corral, built one mile south of Henry, operated about 60 days each year as large range flocks were driven to the corral to be shorn.
This remaining rustic store with wood floors and floor-to-ceiling shelves was built in 1908. The store replaced a large frame building that was destroyed by fire in 1906. The Henry Store was built by William H. Chester and his sons, Walter James and Colin. The Chester family operated the store as a partnership for more than 70 years, making it one of the oldest Idaho stores continuously operated by the same family. The store acted as a social center for the community with its pot-bellied stove that warmed many people. It also served as the post office, voting place, and city hall.
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