Editing Hayden Lake, Idaho (section)

==History==
[[File:Log cabins at Hayden Lake, near Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, circa 1910 (AL+CA 1517).jpg|thumb|left|Log cabins at Hayden Lake, circa 1910]]

The Coeur D’Alene tribe territory centered around what is now Hayden Lake and nearby Lake Coeur d'Alene, gathering plants, including abundant huckleberries, fish and wildlife. The first white man to visit the area was Father DeSmet while serving as a missionary to the Coeur d’Alene Indians. While visiting, he named it Lake DeNuf and recorded several stories told by the local tribe about the lake and the surrounding area.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Hayden was booming at turn of century|url=https://ruralnorthwest.com/artman/publish/printer_4478.shtml|access-date=2021-12-07|website=ruralnorthwest.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Singletary|first=Robert|title=Kootenai Chronicles: A History of Kootenai County Volume 1|publisher=Museum of North Idaho|year=1995|isbn=0-9643647-4-3|location=Coeur D'Alene, ID|pages=8|language=English}}</ref>

Hayden Lake's natural beauty attracted several wealthy people in the early 1900s. The [[F. Lewis Clark]] Mansion was built in 1910, and was the most expensive home in Idaho at the time. In 1914, Lewis mysteriously disappeared and was never seen or heard from again.<ref>[http://www.clarkhouse.com/history.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927231546/http://www.clarkhouse.com/history.html |date=2011-09-27 }} | Clarkhouse.com History</ref> In 1907, the Hayden Lake Country Club became a gathering place for many area socialites, such as [[Bing Crosby]]. A railway expansion made travel easy from nearby [[Spokane, Washington|Spokane]]. HLCC opened the first 18-hole golf course in the state of Idaho in 1912.<ref>[http://www.haydenlakecc.com/The-Country-Club/History.aspx] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110903100309/http://www.haydenlakecc.com/The-Country-Club/History.aspx |date=2011-09-03 }}| Country Club History</ref>

From the 1970s until 2001, the neo-Nazi [[Aryan Nations]] had its headquarters in a {{convert|20|acre|ha|adj=on}} compound in Kootenai County near Hayden Lake. In September 2000, the [[Southern Poverty Law Center]] won a $6.3 million judgment against the Aryan Nations from an Idaho jury, who awarded punitive and compensatory damages to Victoria Keenan and her son, Jason, who were attacked by Aryan Nations guards in 1999.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://archives.cnn.com/2000/LAW/09/08/morris.dees.profile/ |title=Attorney Morris Dees pioneer in using 'damage litigation' to fight hate groups |publisher=[[CNN]] |date=September 8, 2000 |access-date=2007-08-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071008010401/http://archives.cnn.com/2000/LAW/09/08/morris.dees.profile/ <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date=2007-10-08}}</ref> Bullets struck the Keenans' car several times, then the car crashed and an Aryan member held the Keenans at gunpoint.<ref name="AryanNations">{{cite news |url=http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/case-docket/keenan-v-aryan-nations |title=Keenan v. Aryan Nations |publisher=[[Southern Poverty Law Center]] |year=2000 |access-date=2007-08-17}}</ref> As a result of the judgment, [[Richard Butler (white supremacist)|Richard Butler]] turned the compound over to the Keenans, who then sold the property to a philanthropist who subsequently donated it to [[North Idaho College]], which designated the land as a "peace park".<ref name="ButlerObit">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/09/us/richard-g-butler-86-founder-of-the-aryan-nations-dies.html |title=Richard G. Butler, 86, Dies; Founder of the Aryan Nations |work=[[New York Times]] |date=September 9, 2004 |first=Daniel J.|last=Wakin|access-date=2007-08-22}}</ref><ref name=nyt16Feb2002>{{cite news|last=Verhovek|first=Sam Howe|title=With Aryans Gone, Town Seeks New Life|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/16/us/with-aryans-gone-town-seeks-new-life.html|access-date=30 January 2011|newspaper=[[New York Times]]|date=16 February 2002}}</ref>