Tour: Swan Falls Dam

Join City Club of Boise members for a guided tour of the Swan Falls Dam site.

The Swan Falls Museum is located within the historic powerhouse which is a result of four phases of construction between 1900 and 1913. The powerhouse was decommissioned after the new plant was completed and came on-line in 1994. To mitigate decommissioning of the National Register of Historic Places-listed plant, the structure of the historic powerhouse was retained as well as some of the original power-generation equipment and interpretive displays were installed that primarily highlight the difference between constructing such a facility in 1900 vs. 1994.  After years of delays, the interpretive displays of the museum have been improved (new this year) and now feature a broader treatment of pertinent subjects including geology, birds of prey, Pre-contact Native Americans of the area, Native plants, the history of project construction, and the technology of hydroelectric production…