The Idaho Potato Museum | Blackfoot, Idaho (Vlog)
Idaho, land of vast rivers, snow capped mountains, and the potato. No matter how many cool videos we make of epic wilderness adventures, Idaho will always be be known for that boring lump of starch. The first potato planted in the gem state was by Reverend Henry Spaulding in 1847. Now over 170 years later, whenever people think of Idaho the first thing they think of is the potato. Real cool, Montana gets Big Sky and fly fishing and we get potatoes. Maybe I’m being too hard on the spud. Maybe it’s the coolest vegetable on planet earth. Honestly I don’t know much about the potato. So to learn more we headed to the Potato Museum in Blackfoot Idaho.
I thought the potato museum would be a lark. But that little brown lump has had quite the journey through the ages and we got lost diving deep into Idaho’s rich agricultural history. Maybe all the potato needs is a modern spokesperson to update it’s branding and make it cool in the 21st century.
Check out more about the Idaho potato on our blog!
The Idaho Potato Museum
208-785-2517
130 Northwest Main Street
Blackfoot, ID 83221
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Idaho Potato Museum Blackfoot Idaho
Idaho Potato Museum Blackfoot Idaho
Face it! Like me, your addicted to spuds. This is the place to meet all your potato cravings. After visiting the museum, go get some potato ice cream.
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Idaho Potato Museum Visit
We visited the Idaho Potato Museum in Blackfoot, Idaho and it was awesome! The cafe has a great baked potato bar, and their French fries are delicious as well!
We were able to stay on BLM land for free and it was very quiet and scenic.
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Tour of the Potato Museum in Blackfoot, Idaho
Want to learn everything about potatoes? Then head here! Learn why Russet Potatoes are the daddy of America and how potatoes came from Peru and spread across the whole world!
Old machines, potato mashers, potato vodka, its all good!
Only $3 standard entry for an adult. Free hash browns for all tourists out of state!
The Idaho Potato Museum
For one of my Backyard Gem pieces for KPVI News 6, I went to the Idaho Potato Museum to learn more about this 'gem' and see why it drives so many people to our community.
Welcome to Blackfoot Idaho! Home of the Eastern Idaho State Fair!
Blackfoot is a city in Bingham County, Idaho, United States. The population was 11,899 at the 2010 census. The city is the county seat of Bingham County. Blackfoot boasts the largest potato industry in any one area, and is known as the Potato Capital of the World.
The city of Blackfoot is located near the center of Bingham County, on the south side of the Snake River. It was designated the county seat by the Thirteenth Territorial Legislature on January 13, 1885. Originally, the county seat was to be Eagle Rock (the original name for Idaho Falls). However, supposedly, on the night before the legislation was to be signed, men from Blackfoot bribed a clerk to erase Eagle Rock and write in Blackfoot. The measure went through without opposition and was signed by the governor. The origin of this accusation, written many years after the event, was a Blackfoot newspaper editor named Byrd Trego. The battle for county seat between Eagle Rock and Blackfoot was a political tug-of-war involving sectional and anti-Mormon factions in the Idaho Legislature. The leader of the southeastern Idaho anti-Mormons was a Yale graduate named Fred T. Dubois, who settled in Blackfoot in 1880. The legislative maneuvering to overturn Eagle Rock as the county seat naturally left “disparaging rumors intimating some skullduggery on Blackfoot’s part.
Frederick S. Stevens and Joe Warren were the first permanent white settlers of record in Bingham County. In 1866 Stevens and Warren filed claims in the Snake River Valley near the present-day location of Blackfoot, where they started farming and ranching. The area was a flat, expansive plain of sagebrush frequented by Indians. To create a place of safety for the scattered settlers when they feared Indian trouble, Mr. Warren outfitted his cabin with holes between the logs where men could stand guard, day or night, until the natives left the neighborhood. When the Utah Northern Railroad signed contracts to expand north into Idaho in the 1870s, some of the settlers laid out a town on the Shilling and Lewis homesteads. The planned town, named Blackfoot, which was what the area had been called by fur traders, was near the Corbett stage station, about a mile from the Snake River, and two miles from the Blackfoot River.
Civil War veteran William Edward Wheeler, from Vermont, was an early settler. On July 1, 1880, Wheeler began publishing a newspaper called the Blackfoot Register. The first issue described the businesses in operation in Blackfoot on the publication date: “four general merchandise stores, one jewelry store, a livery stable, four saloons, a hotel, one meat market, two blacksmith shops, one barber shop and one lumber yard.” Henry W. Curtis opened the first hardware store in 1885.
Idaho Potato Museum
Bucket list item achieved – I learned more about potatoes than I ever thought I could. And loved every second.
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The Potato Song
I took this video of the potato song in the Idaho potato museum in Blackfoot, Idaho
Garth VanOrden Farms of Blackfoot Idaho
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Living in Blackfoot, ID
Living in Blackfoot, Idaho.
HISTORICAL PLACES OF IDAHO STATE,U S A IN GOOGLE EARTH
HISTORICAL PLACES OF IDAHO STATE,U S A
1. IDAHO STATE CAPITOL,BOISE 43°37'3.98N 116°11'58.47W
2. WAGON WHEEL,TERRETON 43°50'45.24N 112°30'53.22W
3. ST.JOGNS CATHEDRAL,BOISE 43°37'17.90N 116°11'54.50W
4. IDAHO POTATO MUSEUM,BLACKFOOT 43°11'22.46N 112°20'37.30W
5. LDS TEMPLE,BOISE 43°35'36.60N 116°16'30.88W
6. MUSEUM OF IDAHO & CHURCH,IDAHO FALLS 43°29'24.68N 112° 2'16.53W
7. GIANT CROSS,TABLE ROCK 43°35'54.70N 116° 8'51.79W
8. BORAH PEAK (12,668 FT),MACKAY 44° 8'9.07N 113°46'52.85W
9. BOISE ART MUSEUM,BOISE 43°36'34.83N 116°12'23.39W
10. DIAMOND PEAK (12,197 FT ),HOWE 44° 8'30.17N 113° 4'56.76W
11. OLD IDAHO STATE PENITENTIARY,BOISE 43°36'9.41N 116° 9'43.90W
12. FLOATING GOLF GREEN,COEUR D’ALENE 47°39'45.58N 116°45'25.84W
13. JESUS LOVES YOU,BOISE 43°38'43.05N 115°59'34.79W
14. SHOSHONE FALLS,TWIN FALLS 42°35'40.13N 114°24'6.00W
15. KEEP YOUR FORESTS GREEN,BOISE 43°31'42.70N 116° 3'13.62W
16. FORT BOISE 43°49'20.34N 117° 1'8.58W
17. CATALDO MISSION,CATALDO 47°32'55.21N 116°21'29.74W
18. REXBURG IDAHO TEMPLE,REXBURG 43°48'39.89N 111°46'44.80W
19. TWIN FALLS IDAHO TEMPLE,TWIN FALLS 42°35'13.17N 114°26'29.57W
20. BINGHAM HISTORICAL MUSEUM,BLACTFOOT 43°11'18.83N 112°20'28.40W
21. SNAKE POND,EAGLE 43°41'12.42N 116°23'50.28W
22. CHECKER,COOLIN 48°25'17.67N 116°50'53.01W
23. DINAH,ATHOL 47°51'20.79N 116°45'38.31W
24. LDS TEMPLE,IDAHO FALLS 43°30'0.03N 112° 2'28.70W
Learn about the Potato Capital of the World
One of the earliest crops harvested in the region were sugar beets, but it was another tuber -- the potato -- that left a permanent mark on Blackfoot. Today there is even a potato museum in Blackfoot recognizing that impact.
Bingham County produces 20 percent of all the potatoes in the state, Idaho Potato Museum Executive Director Tish Dahmen said. So you can see why Bingham County and Blackfoot is so important to the gross product in Idaho. That's why we've been called the Potato Capital of the World.
The name doesn't just represent the community's chief export though. It also recognizes agricultural innovation that has come from Blackfoot residents.
In the 1950s, brothers Carl and Leo Hobbs were potato harvesters in Blackfoot and the work of moving potatoes into storage was a long and arduous process.
At that time there was no potato equipment readily available, Spudnik Marketing Manager Andrew Blight said. These two men were working for a grower and decided there had to be an easier way to move and store potatoes. They built a machine and made it into a business.
They founded Spudnik in 1958, and began marketing the first potato piler for loading potatoes into storage and later the scooper for unloading. Now 61 years later the local company, now owned internationally by the Grimme Group, has 350 employees and sells innovative equipment across the globe to a tune in excess of $50 million.
Blight says Blackfoot remains the best place for the business, and they plan to continue growing in the coming years.
Abandoned Home Blackfoot, ID
Idaho Potato Museum
It's a potato museum.
Blackfoot Idaho and Bingham County
Potato Expo, Idaho State Fair, Golf Course. blackfootchamber.org
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Big Idaho Potato turned into a hotel and is taking Airbnb reservations
Big Idaho Potato turned into a hotel and is taking Airbnb reservations
The Big Idaho Potato will soon become the Big Idaho Potato Hotel.
The Idaho potato, a giant spud made of steel and plaster that’s about the size of a small house, is being converted into a place to stay in the southeast of Boise, the state’s capital.
If you feel your next vacation is lacking starches, consider spending a night inside of a potato. “It would make the best Instagram selfie!” said Laura Martin, Idaho native, self-proclaimed potato lover, and director of the Big Idaho Potato tour.
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Visiting - Idaho Falls, Idaho (April 2017)
Idaho Falls is a city in and the county seat of Bonneville County, Idaho, United States, and is the largest city in Eastern Idaho. As of the 2010 census, the population of Idaho Falls was 56,813, with a metro population of 136,108. As of 2016, the population was estimated at 60,211.
Idaho Falls is the principal city of the Idaho Falls, Idaho Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Idaho Falls-Blackfoot, Idaho Combined Statistical Area and is the state's largest city outside the Boise metropolitan area and is the third-largest metro area behind Boise City-Nampa and Coeur d'Alene, which is adjacent to the larger Spokane metropolitan area.
Idaho Falls serves as a hub to all of eastern Idaho and much of western Wyoming. The area is served by the Idaho Falls Regional Airport and is home to the Idaho Falls Chukars minor league baseball team, and the Idaho Mustangs, a semi-professional football team that plays in the Rocky Mountain Football League. ~ wikipedia.org
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City Government
308 Constitution Way
Idaho Falls, ID 83402
(208) 612-8100
Convention and Visitors Bureau
355 River Parkway
Idaho Falls, Idaho
(208) 523-1010
Chamber of Commerce
425 North Capital Avenue
Idaho Falls, ID 83402
(208) 523-1010
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Public Library (1:34)
457 West Broadway
Idaho Falls ID 83402
(208) 612-8460
Allegiant Travel Company Air (2:40)
1201 N Town Center Dr
Las Vegas, NV 89144
(702) 505-8888
McCarran International Airport - Las Vegas (0:00)
5757 Wayne Newton Blvd
Las Vegas, NV 89119
(702) 261-5100
Idaho Falls Greenbelt Trail: 8835227 (0:20)
Freeman Park and US Highway 26/W. Sunnyside Road
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (2:33)
1000 Memorial Drive
Idaho Falls, ID 83402-3497
(208) 522-7669
Centre Theatre (0:45)
461 Park Ave
Idaho Falls, ID 83402
(208) 525-3340
Falls Fast Mart (0:49)
475 Park Ave
Idaho Falls, ID 83402
(208) 524-8273
The SnakeBite Restaurant (0:53)
401 Park Ave
Idaho Falls, ID 83402
(208) 525-2522
Ford's Bar (0:53)
444 A Street
Idaho Falls, ID 83402
(208) 523-4840
BlackRock Fine Wine and Craft Beer (0:55)
343 Park Ave
Idaho Falls, ID 83402
(973) 570-4380
Valley Glass (0:55)
296 Lomax Street
Idaho Falls, ID 83401
(208) 522-6550
Stucki Law Office, P.A. (0:58)
380 B Street
Idaho Falls, ID 83402
(208) 529-5067
Harris Publishing Inc. (0:58)
360 B Street
Idaho Falls, ID 83402
(208) 524-7000
Persnickety Lemon Deli (1:04)
313 Park Ave
Idaho Falls, ID 83402
(208) 390-6768
ALC Architecture - Idaho Falls Office (1:06)
301 Park Avenue
Idaho Falls, ID 83402
(208) 522-0088
Ferrell's Clothing (1:07)
417 W Broadway Street
Idaho Falls, ID 83402
(208) 522-8293
Rodeway Inn (1:16)
525 River Parkway
Idaho Falls, ID 83402
(208) 523-8000
Basic American Foods - Shelly Processing Plant (1:39)
434 S Emerson Ave
Shelley, ID 83274
(800) 722-2084
Sportsman Park Friendship Garden (1:44)
600 Broadway
Idaho Falls, ID 83402
(208) 612-8580
Town & Country Gardens (1:58)
5800 S Yellowstone Hwy
Idaho Falls, ID 83402
(208) 522-5247
Anheuser Busch Agricultural Resources - Idaho Barley (2:01)
5755 S Yellowstone Hwy
Idaho Falls, ID 83402
(208) 522-5501
Idaho Falls Fire Department - Station 1 (2:08)
625 Shoup Ave
Idaho Falls, ID 83405
(208) 612-8495
Starbucks Coffee (2:14)
900 E 17th St
Idaho Falls, ID 83404
(208) 524-2520
Museum of Idaho (2:18)
200 N Eastern Ave
Idaho Falls, ID 83402
(208) 522-1400
The Caboose (2:22)
471 River Pkwy
Idaho Falls, ID 83402
Idaho Falls ID Union Pacific 25447
Steel, cupola, no trucks, Shaved Ice Stand, Riverside Park, 465 River Parkway, from Osgood, ID
Idaho Falls Regional Airport (2:40)
2140 N Skyline Dr,
Idaho Falls, ID 83402
(208) 612-8221
Idaho Falls Water Tower (2:46)
Height (architectural) 182.00 ft
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