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Myers School (Shoshone, Idaho)

listed on the National Register of Historic Places

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ6947430 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Myers School near Shoshone, Idaho, United States, was a lava rock schoolhouse built in the 1910s probably by sheep rancher and stonemason Bill Darrah. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 8, 1983, when it was in deteriorated condition.

It is the only lava rock schoolhouse in the two-county area covered in a study of lava rock structures.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Myers School (Shoshone, Idaho)” is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Myers, School and Shoshone, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1983—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Myers, School and Shoshone is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “listed on the National Register of Historic Places” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6947430. Authority coordinates are 42.958, -114.489. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1983.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Myers School (Shoshone, Idaho)”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Myers School (Shoshone, Idaho) primary sources, Myers School (Shoshone, Idaho) archive and Myers research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Myers School (Shoshone, Idaho)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.