Where Is our captain?
TRAFFIC HAZARD? There are no photos in the Museum of North Idaho archives showing exactly where Coeur d’Alene’s Mullan Statue was placed in the summer of 1918, but this photo-shopped picture of the statue placed at the modern-day 7th and Sherman, will give you some idea of how it might have looked.
Stephen Shepperd Photo
LEE LODGE: Lee Lodge, at Fourth of July Summit, was constructed from logs hewn from the nearby forest. The lodge was built on land adjacent to the Mullan Statue by S.J. Lee as a traveler’s rest, offering lodging, food, and fuel.
Museum of North Idaho Photo -- MR-03-005
MULLAN ROAD HISTORIC SITE: The Captain John Mullan Statue as it appears today near the top of Fourth of July Pass. The statue and an explanatory sign sitting next to it appear to be suffering from some neglect.
Stephen Shepperd Photo
There was once a total of 16 John Mullan marble monuments to be found along the path of the road that the Army captain had helped engineer from Fort Benning in Montana to Fort Walla Walla in Washington. Six of them were placed in Idaho communities.
The W.A. Clark family of Butte, Mont., presented one statue each to the communities of Mullan, Wallace, Kellogg, St. Maries, Post Falls and Coeur d’Alene in collaboration with the Society of Montana Pioneers and the Idaho Historical Society. They were intended to mark the route that Mullan and his men had taken nearly 60 years earlier as he managed the construction of the military road.