Montana Yesterday

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 [...]

Category: 1910s, Aviation, Butte, Firefighting, history milestones, Mining, Missoula history, Montana local history, National Forest, Railroads, University of Montana, Western Montana history | 1 Comment »
Tags: 1910, 1910 fires, Amalgamated, Anaconda Company, Anaconda Standard, Glacier National Park, Great Northern, Halley's Comet, Milltown Dam, Missoula County courthouse, Missoula electric streetcar, Missoula Herald, Northern Pacific, U.S. Forest Service, William A. Clark

admin | September 1, 2009

One of my late dog’s favorite places to romp was through Tunnel 16 1/2. It’s the train tunnel on the abandoned Milwaukee Road above what once was the Milltown Dam. In the 1990s until dam cleanup workers gated it off a few years ago, it was a palette for surprising splashes of “street art,” much [...]

Category: 1900, Floods, Milwaukee Railroad, Northern Pacific Railroad, Railroads, Western Montana history | No Comments »
Tags: Big Blackfoot, Bonner, Milltown Dam, Milwaukee Railroad, Montana, trains, tunnels