The James Selway family was the first white family to settle in Beaverhead Valley. In the spring of 1863 James Selway Sr and his wife, Eliza, settled with their eight children at a site just north of what is now Dillon. James and daughter, Mary, went back to England to settle an estate when James became sick and died in Somersetshire. Mary stayed in England.
Eliza Selway braved many hardships. She planted the first potatoes to be planted in Beaverhead. The first year she planted one acre and sold them for 30 cents a pound to the miners at Bannack. She was paid in gold dust.
Four of her sons took up homesteads in the county. They were James Jr., John, Tom and Robert. James Jr stayed with his mother and enlarged the original homestead; he raised many fine horses. Eliza's daughters were Mary, Sarah, Adria and Anna.
The Selway family has left its name on the landscape of Idaho and Montana many times by having creeks, Selway Mountain Range, Selway Lake, Selway Forest, Selway Bridge and Selway Drive named after them.
Beaverhead Co. History Book, Vol. II
Eliza Selway braved many hardships. She planted the first potatoes to be planted in Beaverhead. The first year she planted one acre and sold them for 30 cents a pound to the miners at Bannack. She was paid in gold dust.
Four of her sons took up homesteads in the county. They were James Jr., John, Tom and Robert. James Jr stayed with his mother and enlarged the original homestead; he raised many fine horses. Eliza's daughters were Mary, Sarah, Adria and Anna.
The Selway family has left its name on the landscape of Idaho and Montana many times by having creeks, Selway Mountain Range, Selway Lake, Selway Forest, Selway Bridge and Selway Drive named after them.
Beaverhead Co. History Book, Vol. II
The James Selway family was the first white family to settle in Beaverhead Valley. In the spring of 1863 James Selway Sr and his wife, Eliza, settled with their eight children at a site just north of what is now Dillon. James and daughter, Mary, went back to England to settle an estate when James became sick and died in Somersetshire. Mary stayed in England.
Eliza Selway braved many hardships. She planted the first potatoes to be planted in Beaverhead. The first year she planted one acre and sold them for 30 cents a pound to the miners at Bannack. She was paid in gold dust.
Four of her sons took up homesteads in the county. They were James Jr., John, Tom and Robert. James Jr stayed with his mother and enlarged the original homestead; he raised many fine horses. Eliza's daughters were Mary, Sarah, Adria and Anna.
The Selway family has left its name on the landscape of Idaho and Montana many times by having creeks, Selway Mountain Range, Selway Lake, Selway Forest, Selway Bridge and Selway Drive named after them.
Beaverhead Co. History Book, Vol. II
Eliza Selway braved many hardships. She planted the first potatoes to be planted in Beaverhead. The first year she planted one acre and sold them for 30 cents a pound to the miners at Bannack. She was paid in gold dust.
Four of her sons took up homesteads in the county. They were James Jr., John, Tom and Robert. James Jr stayed with his mother and enlarged the original homestead; he raised many fine horses. Eliza's daughters were Mary, Sarah, Adria and Anna.
The Selway family has left its name on the landscape of Idaho and Montana many times by having creeks, Selway Mountain Range, Selway Lake, Selway Forest, Selway Bridge and Selway Drive named after them.
Beaverhead Co. History Book, Vol. II
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