e-edition eEdition Subscribe Log in
Sunday, October 13, 2024
45.0°F
<p>A sign welcomes visitors at the entrance to Potlatch, Idaho, on Tuesday, May 15, 2012. The Potlatch community was once home to the nation's largest sawmill, but wants to be reborn as a gun town. Business leaders are actively seeking firearms and ammunition manufacturers to breath new life into Potlatch. (AP Photo/Nicholas K. Geranios)</p>

<p>A sign welcomes visitors at the entrance to Potlatch, Idaho, on Tuesday, May 15, 2012. The Potlatch community was once home to the nation's largest sawmill, but wants to be reborn as a gun town. Business leaders are actively seeking firearms and ammunition manufacturers to breath new life into Potlatch. (AP Photo/Nicholas K. Geranios)</p>

May 24, 2012

Stories this photo appears in:

Potlatch looks to gun makers for economic boom
May 24, 2012 9:08 a.m.

Potlatch looks to gun makers for economic boom

This small community in the forested, western foothills of the Rocky Mountains was created as a company town to house workers for the nation's largest white pine sawmill, and its tidy homes and straight, tree-lined streets are a testament to its planners.