Editing Malta, Idaho (section)

==History==
The settlers in the Malta area in the early 1880s had no central location for mail delivery.  The mail was delivered in open boxes.  The Condit family secured a permit from the U.S. Post Office Department to open a post office and name the community.  The post office was opened in 1883. Apparently it seemed like an island in a wide expanse of sea, so they named it Malta after the island of Malta in the Mediterranean.<ref name="island">{{cite book |last1=Bowen |first1=V.K. |last2=Cassia County Historical Society |date=2009 |title=Images of America: Cassia County |publisher=[[Arcadia Publishing]] |pages=79–80 |isbn=978-0-7385-6928-4 |accessdate=July 24, 2016 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M4e6BvwLRSIC&q=malta}}</ref>

A website, created as an [[Eagle Scout (Boy Scouts of America)|Eagle Scout]] project, includes a history on the majority of the people buried at the Valley Vu Cemetery in Malta. It also has histories and information from Raft River High School, including yearbooks.<ref name="eagle">{{cite web |url=http://maltaidaho.org |title=Malta, Idaho |accessdate=July 24, 2016}}</ref>