Watch this video and then we will answer some history questions!
I plan to do some more history digging on this school. I love old schools, old buildings, and it drives me nuts not being able to find more information online about this place. I will be visiting Mountain Home, Idaho again soon and plan to stop in to the visitors center and chamber to gather information!
What I did find though from:
https://www.shraboise.com/2015/04/42215-jackson-school/
Jackson School was part of Rattlesnake Station, a stagecoach station along Rattlesnake Creek that was the original site of Mountain Home. Established by Ben Holladay in 1864, Rattlesnake Station was a major stopover on the Overland Stage Line, the stagecoach route between Salt Lake City and Walla Walla. There are no photos of the station, or of Fort Rattlesnake, built in 1878 during the Shoshone-Bannock War, but as one of the few stations in an otherwise dangerous stretch of the Oregon Trail, it had to have played a central role in many pioneers’ lives and travels. In 1883, however, the Oregon Short Line Railroad was built further down the valley, at the site of present day Mountain Home, and Rattlesnake Station’s post office, called “Mountain Home,” was dragged by mules from the old location to the new. Rattlesnake Station continued to serve as a stagecoach stop until 1914, when the stage line was abandoned, leaving Rattlesnake Station and the Jackson School to slowly join the ranks of Idaho ghost towns.
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