Sweet Idaho Community Website

Greetings from the Webmaster

It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to our town and website. The community of Sweet is a wonderful place to live or visit, a scenic valley with small farms, ranches and friendly, down to earth people. Sweet is one of Idaho's little known "gems", a community that embraces wholesome values and a reflection of a way of living that is disappearing from much of America. We are a close knit community with a mixture of long time residents whose families were among the original settlers and homesteaders in the area and a growing number of newcomers who have come to know and love our town and now call it home. We are surrounded by rolling hills, streams and rivers with an abundance of wildlife. If you love outdoor activities you will find many options to explore around Sweet, including our own hot springs resort, camping, fishing and horseback riding. This website is provided as a community service to the people of Sweet, Idaho, my friends and neighbors. Special thanks to Carla White for providing many of the beautiful photos for the site.
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HISTORY
Sweet was named after Ezekiel Sweet, who founded the town in 1885. The community was initially a supply location and post office for farmers and ranchers in the nearby Lower Squaw Creek Valley. Sweet grew significantly as a result of the later Thunder Mountain Mines gold strike; by 1900, it supported three saloons, three hotels, several businesses and a newspaper, which lasted until the gold mines petered out. Most of the original town was destroyed by a series of fires with only a few of the historic buildings surviving today. Sweet is now a much smaller town with a rural post office, Triangle Inn Restaurant, Montour Country Store and Roystone Hot Springs.		Sweet is an unincorporated community of Gem County, Idaho, located approximately 30 miles north of Boise, Idaho off of Hwy 52 between Horseshoe Bend and Emmett. Link to Map
NEWS
Sweet now has a Newsletter/Blog created by Michael McCaulou of Sweet. You can check it out at www.sweetidahonews.blogspot.com and send information for the newsletter to mtmccaulou@earthlink.net Thank you Michael.