Getting to City of Rocks is perhaps half the fun of a visit to the Reserve. There's lots of landscape to ponder and there's history galore littered along the route. Let's take a quick look at Albion, Idaho.
This tiny town served as the County Seat of Cassia County from 1876 to 1918. The saga of Diamondfield Jack will be forever joined at the hip with Albion. It's easily one of the weirdest stories you will ever study.
Meanwhile there's an actual college campus in Albion. Yep, that's right, it's the Albion State Normal School founded way back in 1893! What a history that place has!
More than 6,000 people received their teaching credentials there. After a very bumpy ride through abandonment and resurrection, the old Normal School is being brought back to life as a family reunion and retreat center. You can click here to read a Wiki synopsis of the place.
Hints of the Diamondfield Jack story appears on an IDT historical marker located where Highway 77 does its second dogleg through town. Jack is one of the few individuals to have official historical markers in two states! See Nevada's here.
There's plenty to ponder in Albion, so allow some time for a stop and a stretch!
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