Today's Sandpoint City Beach (2014)
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Sandpoint City Beach and Park in 2014. The log enclosed areas are safe swimming sections. The loop drive around the beach was filled in with grass. The narrow strip of land between the highway and railroad track just above the beach was the original town of Sandpoint in 1890. Courtesy of Eric Skinner.
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Sandpoint’s Qapquape
Sandpoint’s Qapquape
Long before the Europeans invaded north Idaho, the semi nomadic hunting/digging/fishing Kalispel Tribe made the shores of Lake Pend Oreille their home. These “Canoe People” or “Lake Paddlers,” as they were called by…