Wallace 1910 Fire Memorial

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Wallace 1910 Fire Memorial is in Nine Mile Cemetery near Wallace, Idaho. It consists of two cobblestone monuments placed in 1921 by the U.S. Forest Service, honoring firefighters who died in the Great Fire of 1910. One monument commemorates five men who died on August 20, 1910 at the West Fork of Placer Creek while fighting fires; the other honors six men who died at the Bullion Mine. The site covers about 5 acres and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 20, 1984.