Golf in Rigby

Rigby is Jefferson County's seat, a farming community on the upper Snake River Plain between Idaho Falls and Rexburg at roughly 4,800 feet elevation. Jefferson County markets itself as the birthplace of television: inventor Philo Farnsworth conceived his cathode ray tube design while farming these fields as a teenager in Rigby, a remarkable innovation to emerge from rural eastern Idaho's agricultural landscape. Potatoes, grain, and dairy on the irrigated Snake River Plain sustain the county's agricultural economy, and Jefferson Hills Golf Course serves the recreational needs of a compact farming community with an improbable but genuine claim to technological history.