Oscar Wallace
This file appears in: A Brief History of Wallace, Idaho
A portrait of Oscar Wallace, Second Mayor of Wallace and son of founder Colonel W. R. Wallace.
Image Courtesy of the Wallace District Mining Museum
This file appears in: A Brief History of Wallace, Idaho
A Brief History of Wallace, Idaho
At the heart of the Silver Valley, Wallace has always been a town of boom and bust.
Founded in 1884, the town is named for William R. Wallace, a local farmer. Silver mining would soon replace agriculture, and the community that emerged around…