Editing Blaine County, Idaho (section)

==History==
[[File:Baldmountainid.jpg|thumb|250px|right|[[Sun Valley, Idaho|Sun Valley's]] [[Bald Mountain (Idaho)|Bald Mountain]] in 2006]]
The [[Wood River Valley]] in present-day Blaine County was organized as part of [[Alturas County, Idaho|Alturas County]] by the [[Idaho Territory|Idaho Territorial]] Legislature in 1864.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.idahogenealogy.com/alturas/index.htm|title=Alturas County, Idaho Genealogy and History|publisher=Idahogenealogy.com|access-date=November 13, 2011}}</ref> By the 1880s the valley supported a thriving mining commerce; in 1882 the county seat of Alturas County was moved from [[Rocky Bar, Idaho|Rocky Bar]] in present-day [[Elmore County, Idaho|Elmore County]] to Hailey, in response to a population shift from Rocky Bar – which would eventually become a [[ghost town]] – to the Wood River Valley.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.idahohistory.net/Reference%20Series/0983.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071211222621/http://www.idahohistory.net/Reference%20Series/0983.pdf |archive-date=December 11, 2007 |url-status=live|title=Blaine County Courthouse |publisher=Idahohistory.net|date=July 7, 2010|access-date=November 13, 2011}}</ref>

The Blaine County boundaries described in its 1895 creation ordinance contained lands that soon were partitioned off to form other counties. Only thirteen days after the official formation date of Blaine, [[Lincoln County, Idaho|Lincoln County]] was formed from the county. Lincoln itself was later partitioned to create [[Gooding County, Idaho|Gooding]] (1913), [[Minidoka County, Idaho|Minidoka]] (1913), and [[Jerome County, Idaho|Jerome]] (1919) counties. Blaine County was further reduced in 1917 when [[Camas County, Idaho|Camas County]] was formed.<ref name=lmtjulp/>

The strong mining economy of the 1880s had substantially declined by 1890, when Idaho Territory became a state. The county began to recast itself as a tourism destination in 1936 with the opening of the [[Sun Valley, Idaho|Sun Valley]] resort, originally owned by the [[Union Pacific Railroad]]. The area soon attracted celebrity visitors, and later residents, most notably [[Ernest Hemingway]], who is buried in the Ketchum Cemetery.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.svguide.com/heming.htm|title=Hemingway Haunts|publisher=Svguide.com|access-date=November 13, 2011}}</ref> Celebrities who have lived in Blaine County include [[Adam West]],<ref>{{cite web|last=Simons|first=Greg|url=http://www.boiseweekly.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A153890|title=Adam West: Behind the Mask|publisher=Boiseweekly.com|access-date=November 13, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120722112424/http://www.boiseweekly.com/boise/adam-west/Content?oid=924175|archive-date=July 22, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Demi Moore]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biography_story/2141:2714/3/Demi_Moore.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080411062605/http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biography_story/2141:2714/3/Demi_Moore.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 11, 2008|title=Demi Moore Biography |publisher=The Biography Channel |access-date=November 13, 2011 }}</ref> and  [[John Kerry]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article498699.ece|title=Login}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>