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8 unusual facts about Creston


Flying Paster

At the pinnacle of his breeding career, Flying Paster died unexpectedly at age sixteen from a heart attack on August 22, 1992 at Cardiff Stud Farm in Creston, California.

Golden Act

Golden Act died at the age of twenty-four on May 8, 2000 at Cardiff Stud Farm in Creston, California.

Howard Dirks

He represented Nelson-Creston in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1986 to 1991 as a Social Credit member.

Kaslo-Slocan

For the 1966 election, the Slocan area became part of Revelstoke-Slocan, while the Kaslo area became part of Nelson-Creston.

Sonora Smart Dodd

When Sonora was seven years old, the Smart family moved from Marion, Arkansas to a farm between Creston, Washington and Wilbur, Washington near Spokane in 1889.

Trementina Base

The Church of Spiritual Technology symbol also appears at the Petrolia location and in the middle of a track at the ranch in Creston, California where L. Ron Hubbard died.

Wesley Drewett Black

He represented Nelson-Creston in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1952 to 1972 as a Social Credit member.

Worth's Chapel

Worth's Chapel (Creston United Methodist Church) is a historic chapel at 175 Three Top Road in Creston, North Carolina.


British Columbia Highway 21

First opened in 1964, the highway travels 14 km (9 mi) northwest along the Kootenay River, from its connection with Idaho State Highway 1 at the Rykerts Canada-U.S. border crossing to a point on the Crowsnest Highway just 1 km (about ½ mi) west of Creston.

Crowsnest Highway

East of Burnt Flat, the Crowsnest heads through the Kootenay Pass on a stretch known as the Kootenay Skyway, or Salmo-Creston Skyway.

Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

The FLDS Church is estimated to have 6,000 - 10,000 members residing in the sister cities of Hildale, Utah and Colorado City, Arizona; Eldorado, Texas; Westcliffe, Colorado; Mancos, Colorado; Creston and Bountiful, British Columbia; and Pringle, South Dakota.

Idaho State Highway 1

The route serves as a connector between Bonners Ferry, via US-95 south, Porthill, and Creston, BC The highway is one of two border crossings from Idaho into British Columbia.

Steamboats of the upper Columbia and Kootenay Rivers

In the early 1880s a wealthy European adventurer, William Adolf Baillie-Grohman (1851–1921), travelled to the Kootenay Region and became obsessed with developing an area far down the Kootenay River near the southern end of Kootenay Lake called Kootenay Flats, near the modern town of Creston, BC.


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