admin | May 8, 2010
This was a week in 1910 that saw, among other things, the creation of a national park and the first electric street car run in Missoula (see previous post and, I’m told, a column in the Sunday, May 9, Missoulian.). It was also the week that John Schaffer tried out his biplane outside of Missoula. [...]
admin | May 6, 2010
There may have been a week of more impact in Montana history than the one that began on Sunday, May 8, 1910. I’m not aware of it. President Taft signed Glacier National Park into being on May 12, and what stories that act has wrought. In Missoula, the electric streetcars, powered by the new hydroelectric [...]
admin | April 5, 2010
Kris Crawford of Target Range sends along a photo of the old Kelley family house (as in Kelley Island) which she says was known as the “Pepperpot.” It was a speakeasy during prohibition. I’m trying to download the photo here, but I’m being told the file is too big, so I’ll have to get help. [...]
admin | March 23, 2010
Think horse racing was on the minds of Missoulians in 1891? Here are two separate blurbs, posted on the same day (Feb. 16, 1891) in the Missoula Gazette: “Cashier Keith of the First National Bank is the possessor of a new horse which promises to make its mark on the Missoula track next season. He [...]
admin | March 17, 2010
It’ll be several weeks before demolition of the old Florence Laundry building on East Front and Pattee is Missoula is complete. Jim Howard of Frenchtown sends these thoughts: “I have many good memories of the old Florence Laundry as my granddad and, later, dad ran the business. “One very important historical point, though, that wasn’t [...]
admin | March 10, 2010
A couple of posts ago we discussed what little we found out about George Briggs and Briggsville, a “suburb” of Missoula in the early 1890s just east of Fort Missoula, where by 1893 paper mills were apparently employing hundreds of women. Here’s George’s death story in the Missoulian, Dec. 16, 1927:
admin | March 8, 2010
My previous post about Briggsville and George Briggs was based on the following article from the Missoulian, Feb. 15, 1893. It seems like this is a pretty important piece of Missoula’s history, and there are still plenty of unsolved mysteries within. One is the reference to Prof. J. M. Hamilton, the president of “the university” [...]
admin | March 7, 2010
Our Sunday history almanac a couple of weeks ago in the Territory section of the Missoulian included an item about a brief strike by the motormen of the Missoula Electric Street Railway Co. in February 1893. It came from a Missoulian article that offered a fascinating and sometimes surprising slice of life in Missoula in [...]
admin | February 25, 2010
Kris Crawford, who works tirelessly to capture and share the history of the Target Range area in southwestern Missoula, writes about an event taking place at Dales Dairy tomorrow night. “We have a Target Range history study group working on various families and structures in our neighborhood area. This Friday from 6-8:30p.m. in Dales Dairy, [...]
admin | February 22, 2010
From Jeff Herman, friend; former Missoulian sports/copy editor; inventor of the “page stretcher” with which all new copy girls and boys became quickly familiar; Missoula Timberjacks batboy, and the man who, for better or worse, gave me my first shot in the newspapering business in 1974: Just a little footnote for your local history and [...]
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