Wallace students get hands on with local history
Wallace high school students met with the self-appointed "Prime Minister of Wallace," Rick Shaffer at the Wallace Inn so student Margot Cotter could conduct a local history interview. Shaffer's historic Wallace home was built in 1892 and later purchased by Wallace attorney and mayor Walter H. Hanson. The home was later in the hands of Nancy Lee Hansen, a city leader who helped save Wallace by adding buildings and homes to the National Historic Register.
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Sarah Murphy takes ninth grade students from Wallace Jr./Sr. High School on a tour of a home during an excursion for their local history class.
Ninth graders get a tour of Wallace Brewing Company. Through their elective local history class with social studies teacher Chris Lund, the class learned about how the building used to be the Wallace location of the Coeur d'Alene Hardware Store.
WALLACE — Wallace social studies teacher Chris Lund was looking for new ways to spark curiosity about history in his students and decided it was time to take them out of the classroom. The city of Wallace relishes in its local history and ninth graders are getting a more hands-on approach with a new local history elective. ...
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