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Coeur d'Alene is the county seat and largest city of Kootenai County, Idaho. It is the principal
city of the Coeur d'Alene, Idaho Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is the largest city in the
Idaho Panhandle.
The city of Coeur d'Alene has grown significantly in recent years due in part to a substantial
increase in tourism, encouraged by several resorts in the area. Barbara Walters called the city
"a little slice of Heaven" and included it in her list of most fascinating places to visit.
Locally, Coeur d'Alene is known as the "Lake City," or simply by its initials: "CDA."
Coeur d'Alene, ID History:
French traders allegedly named the city out of respect for the tough trading practices of
the local Indian tribe. Translated from French Coeur d'Alene literally means "heart of the
awl" which might mean "sharp-hearted" or "shrewd." Others interpret "Heart of the Awl" to
translate to "Eye of the Needle", perhaps referring to the narrow passage through which
the lake empties into the Spokane river on its way to the Columbia.
The Coeur d'Alene district has had a history of miners' disputes. Harry Orchard, who
owned a share of the Hercules Mine in the nearby mountains before it began producing,
and who later confessed to dynamiting a $250,000 mill near Wardner during a contentious
1899 miners' dispute, would also confess to a secret, brutal and little understood role
in the Colorado Labor Wars before returning to Idaho to assassinate former Idaho Governor
Frank Steunenberg.
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