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Mayor Jim Fromm posed at the old Louisiana Pacific building in 1985, which became the Coeur d’Alene Library for 21 years.

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Tiny Athol once was the railhead at the center of the Girl Scouts’ universe. On July 15, 1965, 616 girls from New York and New Jersey emerged from 27 Northern Pacific cars at Athol “singing, chanting and bustling with energy,” according to the Coeur d'Alene Press.