Ketchum Ranger District Complex, First Street and Washington Avenue, Ketchum. The historic building complex once belonged to the Sawtooth National Forest. It's assortment of buildings included a ranger station, maintenance building, warehouses and living quarters built by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the 1933 Depression. Today it houses the City of Ketchum's Heritage & Ski Museum, which preserves 25 collections, including: early wooden skis used in the valley prior to 1935; the 1930-1993 Gretchen and Don Fraser Collection; and early Sun Valley photographs and oral histories of the development of skiing in the American West.

Notable People

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Author, Ernest "Papa" Hemingway was the most notable of Ketchum's residents. He finished For Whom the Bell Tolls in Suite 206 of the Sun Valley Lodge. Twenty years later, having won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction and a Nobel Prize for Literature, Hemmingway fled from Cuba upon Fidel Castro�s takeover, and returned to Ketchum. The graves of Ernest and fourth wife Mary are in the little cemetery in Ketchum. There is a memorial to him near the Sun Valley Golf Course beside Trail Creek, one of his favorite fly-fishing streams. His last residence, not open to the public and donated by Mary to the Nature Conservancy, is also the place where he committed suicide with a shotgun. The house lies in the Sawtooth Mountains just north of Sun Valley. Take ID-75 north, and just before Saddle Road look left. His home is just north of the Presbyterian Church.

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