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Princeton was founded in
1896 and named by Orville Clough, prominent lumber man and donor of the
school site, for his hometown of Princeton, Minnesota. One of eight
WI&M stations bearing the names of colleges, one of two not named by
colege students, 4 miles east of Potlatch.
When construction on the WI&M
began, Princeton was already a town with a post office, hotel, store, livery
stable, blacksmith shop, two saloons, and a stage stop for the Palouse-Hoodoo
stagecoach. It had started as a convenient stopping place during the mining
boom, the placering by the Chinese, and the Hoodoos in the mid 1870's.
The Princeton Post Office opened April 18, 1894.
From A to Z in Latah County, Idaho by Lalia Phipp Boone
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