HAPPY BIRTHDAY POCATELLO - 136 YEARS OLD
On the 29th day of April 1889 at 1:30 p.m., the Board of [Bingham] County Commissioners (you read that right, Pocatello was initially located in Bingham County) met and initiated the following action:
“Petition from the residents of and citizens of the Town of Pocatello requesting that the Town of Pocatello be incorporated and police be established for their local government and that from thenceforth they may be a body politic and corporate by the name and style of the Inhabitants of the Town of Pocatello, with all the powers, rights, and privileges of incorporated towns and villages, as is contemplated and in such cases especially provided by the laws of the Territory of Idaho 1887 Revised Statutes thereof. It was ordered that the petition be granted and the town of Pocatello be declared incorporated and the following men be declared appointed Trustees, K.D. Williams, F.A. Caldwell, H.L. Becraft, L.A. West and G.H. Davis.”
-From the meeting minutes of the Board of [Bingham] County Commissioners, Monday, April 29th, 1889, and verified by Judge D.W. Standrod in a judgement made in the Supreme Court of the State of Idaho (State ex. rel. J.T. Holcomb v. The Inhabitants of the Town of Pocatello, 1891).