Florence is a ghost town in Idaho County, Idaho, United States. The town was originally settled as a mining camp in the winter of 1861, Several hundred miners who had come for the Clearwater Gold Rush of 1861, heard of a huge bonanza there on the Salmon River. Many of the miners walked from Pierce, Idaho to Florence in the dead of winter.
It was a placer gold deposit. many of the workings currently seen in the area are from the Chinese miners that arrived later.
It currently is only a cemetery and the foundations of a few buildings in 1995.
Much of the information is from the road sign on hwy 95 placed by the Idaho Historical Society between White Bird and Riggins.
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