SPALDING The Spalding site is along U.S. Highway 95 approximately 10 miles east of Lewiston, Idaho, at the confluence of the Clearwater River and Lapwai Creek. This area contains several different historic resources, the park headquarters, museum, and visitor center. The land surrounding the Spalding Site is used for agriculture and residences. THE SPALDING VISITOR CENTER The Spalding Visitor Center, owned and operated by the National Park Service, sits on an old river terrace. The visitor center has many roles -- introducing the public to the entire park and park themes, housing park headquarters including the park support unit and the primary museum collection, serving as a community polling place, and the location of cultural events and demonstrations. THE SPALDING SITE The following historic resources are in the NPS-owned parts of the Spalding site: Watson's Store, which began as a trading post in 1911 an Indian agency cabin, built in 1862 to implement the reservation system the Indian agent's residence, also from the reservation period archeological remains of the grist mill, sawmill, and associated mill-races, built in 1839 -- 1840 remnants of the Spalding Mission, where Henry Harmon Spalding and his wife Eliza lived and worked after their move to this location in 1837 the arboretum, which was established as part of Spalding Memorial State Park in the 1930s numerous archeological remains, dating from as long ago as 11,000 years, are found throughout the entire Lapwai Creek delta at its confluence with the Clearwater River Wayside exhibits in the historic area along Lapwai Creek cover the early missionary and Indian Agency periods. Learn more about the Spalding site

	State: Idaho Unit: Spalding