Freedom, Idaho and Wyoming

Coordinates: 42°58′58″N 111°02′38″W / 42.98278°N 111.04389°W / 42.98278; -111.04389
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Freedom, Idaho and Wyoming
FIPS code
56-30115[1]
GNIS feature ID397726[2]

Freedom is an

2020 census
.

Geography

Located on

ZIP code of 83120.[5]

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 4.0 sq mi (10 km2), all land.[6]

History

Freedom was established in 1879, and today it remains the oldest settlement in the

Mormon polygamists in order to escape arrest for polygamy: they could be free from Idaho police simply by walking into Wyoming. The community was named for the freedom it gave these early settlers.[7]

At one time, Freedom was the largest settlement in Star Valley. There was a general store, a gas station, billiard hall, and other establishments. Today some of the old buildings still stand, but very few are still in use. The Post Office and Baseball Park are still used, along with the LDS Church, which was built in 1889. The headquarters of Freedom Arms, a gun factory and maker of a .454 Casull handgun, is located in the Wyoming portion of the community.[8]

Demographics

The population of the

some other race.[9]

Notable people

Randall Luthi, the former Speaker of the Wyoming House of Representatives resides in Freedom.

Alvinston, Ontario, Canada; West Jordan, Utah; and Star Valley, Wyoming
, based on flour mills and lumber mills. After 1858, he was a leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in a position that was held for 32 years.

As a businessman, millwright and practical engineer, Archibald Gardner built 36 gristmills and lumber mills: 23 in Utah, six in Canada, five in Wyoming and two in Idaho. He also built hundreds of miles of canals, and many bridges in Utah.

Archibald Gardner's life is memorialized by a plaque in Alvinston, Archibald's Restaurant, a restored gristmill in West Jordan at Gardner Village, a plaque on 400 S 200 E, Spanish Fork, Utah for the first grist mill in town in 1858, and a monument in Afton ... The site where Archibald built his original flour mill in West Jordan, Utah is now known as Gardner Village and features a collection of other early pioneer homes that now house shops and a restaurant dedicated to him called Archibald's Restaurant.

References

  1. ^ "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
  2. ^ "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. 2007-10-25. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
  3. ^ Rand McNally. The Road Atlas '08. Chicago: Rand McNally, 2008, pp. 31, 116.
  4. ^ Geographic Names Information System Feature Detail Report, Geographic Names Information System, 1979-06-21. Accessed 2008-05-04.
  5. ^ "Zip Code Lookup". Archived from the original on 2011-06-15. Retrieved 2008-05-03.
  6. ^ "2010 Wyoming Place Names". U.S. Census Bureau. Archived from the original on July 4, 2012. Retrieved July 13, 2012.
  7. ^ "Freedom, Wyoming". Archived from the original on 2008-05-21. Retrieved 2008-05-07.
  8. ^ "Freedom Arms". Company Website. Freedom Arms. Retrieved 2009-07-17.
  9. ^ "US Census Bureau". Archived from the original on 2020-02-12. Retrieved 2008-05-22.
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