Nez Perce County Historical Society

06/23/2026

06/16/2026

The NPCHS Museum is co-hosting with the Lewiston City Library a presentation by Steven Branting, LCSC Historian, on Thursday, June 18th at 5:30pm in the upstairs event space. He will present on the establishment and history of Lewiston's first Jewish community, the first in Idaho.

05/28/2026

Mark your calendars for these upcoming presentations hosted by the Lewiston City Library and NPCHS Museum. These presentations are part of the America 250 celebration at the library, 2nd floor, large event space.

05/28/2026

The NPCHS is co-hosting with the Lewiston City Library the upcoming presentation by Hank Heusinkveld titled, "U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Afghanistan: Winning Hearts and Minds, Rebuilding Infrastructure". Hope you can join us listening to one of the America's 250 celebration presentations at the library.

Date: Tuesday, June 9
Time: 5:30 PM
Location: Event Space
Ages: Teen & Adult

Former U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Public Affairs Specialist Hank Heusinkveld spent 14 months reporting on the Corps' efforts to help rebuild Afghanistan from October of 2009 to December of 2010. Join him as he gives a pictorial presentation that shows how the Corps A historic drawing of an old-timey town filled with horse-drawn carriages hired Afghans to rebuild their country and to mentor Afghan engineers to rebuild their badly damaged infrastructure left untouched after years of fighting.

05/21/2026

Today, we are backing up in the history time line.

Nez Perce County was originally established on December 20, 1861, by the Washington Territorial Legislature. It was reorganized as an original county by the Idaho Territorial Legislature on February 4, 1864. It is named after the Nez Perce Tribe.
Nez Perce County was one of the four original Idaho counties from which all 44 of the state's modern counties have been carved. NPC had included what is now Latah, Clearwater, Lewis and Kootenai Counties. The present boundaries of Nez Perce County were set in 1911.

05/20/2026

For those who could not attend Steven Branting's presentation on May 13th at the Lewiston City Library, here is your chance. Please click on this link to our NPCHS YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH-Cx_uGdVg&t=25s. Thanks to Steve and the Lewiston City Library.

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05/15/2026

Today, the Lewiston High School Construction Class completed the setup of the Miranda Cabin. The NPCHS would like to thank the class, Mr. Johnson, John Fisher, and Garry Bush for all their hard work in placing the cabin in its permanent home on the museum campus. Also, congratulations to the students in the class who are graduating this year; we wish them all the best in their futures.

05/14/2026

Lewiston High School Construction Class, with their instructor Stuart Johnson, Garry Bush, and John Fisher, moved the Miranda Cabin to its permanent spot on the new concrete pad in our museum campus yesterday. We greatly appreciate Stuart and his hardworking students. Great job, boys!