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May 12, 2022

EARLY-DAY HORSE RACE on Main Street in Thompson Falls in front of the Ward Hotel during Fourth of July festivities. This picture is not the famous horse race mentioned in this article because the Ward Hotel was not built until 1908. This is a close race, the horses are nose to nose.

77 YEARS AGO • 1945

Following is excerpts from the 1945-46 Thompson Falls High School Yearbook

EARLY HISTORY OF THOMPSON FALLS

The falls of the Clark's Fork River near the present site of Thompson Falls was the meeting place of many Indian tribes of the northwest country who came to hunt and f...

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