Hailey, Idaho

Like its more famous neighbor to the north, Hailey was founded as a mining community in 1865. The boom continued for several decades as the town grew. The best place to begin exploring Hailey is the Blaine County Historical Museum. A parallel economic boom began in 1880 with the raising of sheep. Between 1910 and 1920, more than one million head of sheep a year moved through the area, making the Wood River Valley one of the largest sheep shipping centers in the world, second only to Sydney, Australia.