Caldwell, Idaho ID Hotels/Motels/Lodging

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Caldwell is the county seat of Canyon County, Idaho. As of the 2000 census Caldwell population was 25,967 (2003 estimate: 31,041).

Caldwell is the home of Albertson College of Idaho. It is considered part of the Boise metropolitan area.

In the 1870s and 1880s, Caldwell was home to hundreds of Chinese immigrants, but the town was central in Idaho's aggressive anti-Chinese backlash that culminated in an 1886 convention of the Anti-Chinese League in Boise. By 1890, however, every last immigrant had been driven from town by social pressures and outright violence.

In March of 1908, after a series of trials relating to miners' strikes in Coeur d'Alene and the Colorado Labor Wars, Albert Horsley, better known by his psuedonym Harry Orchard, pleaded guilty in District Court in Caldwell to the assassination of former Idaho governor Frank Steunenberg. Judge Fremont Wood sentenced Orchard to hang, but his sentence was commuted, and he lived out the rest of his life in an Idaho prison.

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