220 Acres Recreational Land, Meadow

Farm Description

This +/- 220 acres would make a great recreational or hunting property beside the timber value. There are plenty of turkeys, elk, deer, moose, and black bear that wander through. Meadow Creek flow through the property. Harvard is an unincorporated community in the northwest United States, on the Palouse of north-central Idaho in Latah County. Located on the Palouse River, eight miles 13 km east of Potlatch on State Highway 6, Harvard has a post office with ZIP code 83834. 2 The elevation is 2,575 feet 785 m above sea level. Nearby is Camp Grizzly, a Boy Scout summer camp it is approximately three miles 5 km upstream to the northeast, at the base of the Hoodoo Mountains. History Harvard was founded in 1906 when the Washington, Idaho and Montana Railway was extended to that point. 3 The community was named after Harvard University, 3 and its post office has been in operation since 1906. 4 The railroad slated it to be called Canfield after landowner Homer Canfield, who did not want the honor. He suggested Harvard as a complement to the existing Princeton, five miles 8 km west, which was named after Princeton, Minnesota. 3 Other locations in the vicinity with collegiate names include Cornell, Purdue, Stanford, Vassar, Wellesley, and Yale. 3 Some were intended, others were coincidental.