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Sandpoint is a city in Bonner County, Idaho, United States. The population was 6,835 at the 2000
census. The city is the county seat of Bonner County.
Sandpoint's major industry is tourism and recreation, thanks to its proximity to scenic Lake Pend
Oreille and Schweitzer Mountain Ski Resort. It is also home to the headquarters for the mail-order
clothing catalog Coldwater Creek.
Sandpoint, ID History:
The Flathead Indians of Montana built encampments on the shore of Lake Pend Oreille every
summer, fished, made baskets of cedar, and collected huckleberries before returning to
Montana in the fall. The encampments ended before 1930.
In August, 1888, twenty-nine year old author and civil servant Theodore Roosevelt,
visited Sandpoint on a caribou hunting trip in the Selkirk Mountains.
Sandpoint was officially incorporated in 1898. Timber harvesting drove the economy for
nearly a century after lumberjacks moved in from the overharvested Great Lakes region.
The economy was given a boost during World War II from Farragut Naval Station, a
training center for the US Navy located at the south western end of Lake Pend Oreille.
In August of 2006, Sandpoint and the Panida Theater were host to the first ever
International Film Festival in North Idaho - The Idaho Panhandle International Film
Festival. IPIFF, as it was known, featured fifty-five films of various genres and lengths,
over four days (August 23rd-26th) from nine countries. IPIFF has since been renamed
Lakedance International Film Festival and will be held on September 12th-16th. This
festival, along with The Festival at Sandpoint, and Lost-in-the-50's, among other events,
continue to build Sandpoint's reputation of being an arts and culture capital of North
Idaho and the Inland Northwest.
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