Historic Sites

1. The Bozeman Cemetery

Bozeman, Bozeman Area

There are few plots of land n Montana that have as much history buried in them as the Bozeman Cemetery.

2. South Willson Historic District

Bozeman, Bozeman Area

The drive on Willson St. from the downtown area of Bozeman south takes you through a residential district featuring houses that range from large mansions to small cottages, all preserved and maintained in the style they were originally constructed.

3. Soldier’s Chapel

Gallatin Gateway, Big Sky/Yellowstone Area

A Historical Chapel in Big Sky, Montana. The Soldier's Chapel structure was built in 1955 as a World War II memorial.

4. Rosebud Battlefield State Park

Busby, Billings Area

On June 17, 1876, 1300 soldiers, scouts, and miners were met in battle by an equal number of Sioux and Cheyenne.

5. Miles City Academy (Ursuline Convent)

Miles City, Southeast Montana

The first Ursuline Convent in the Rocky Mountains opened in Miles City on January 18, 1884.

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6. Fort Keogh

Miles City, Southeast Montana

This was, at one time, the largest army post in Montana. It served from 1877-1908 as a major post at the close of the Indian wars.

7. Rosebud County Courthouse

Forsyth, Southeast Montana

This three-story, neoclassical building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

8. Reynolds Battlefield National Monument

Broadus, Southeast Montana

This is the site of Col. Joseph Reynold’s unprovoked attack on a peaceable Indian camp of Cheyennes, Oglalas, and Miniconjous on the Powder River.

9. St. Labre Mission

Ashland, Southeast Montana

In 1883, Private George Yoakam, who was stationed at Fort Keogh in Miles City, convinced a Catholic bishop to intervene and help the Cheyenne people.

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10. Two Moons Monument

Busby, Southeast Montana

In 1936, W.P. Moncure, an Indian trader, with the help of a store employee named Jules, reburied the body of Chief Two Moons along with personal items of his and other Cheyennes from the Battle for the Little Bighorn.

11. Frontier Gateway Museum

Glendive, Southeast Montana

The museum is historical and chronological in content. Displays range from prehistoric times to the 20th century.

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12. Range Riders Museum

Miles City, Southeast Montana

From its humble beginnings in 1940s, the Range Riders Museum has become one of the finest museums in the northwest.

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13. O'Fallon Historical Museum

Baker, Southeast Montana

This five-building museum features the old jailhouse, two homestead houses, antique cars, homestead antiques, dinosaur bones, and much more.

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14. Carter County Museum

Ekalaka, Southeast Montana

Features dinosaur fossil remains dating back 65 million years ago when many dinosaurs roamed this area. Among the paleontological finds housed within the museum is a mounted skeleton of an Anatotitan Copei, one of three known skeletons found.

15. Powder River Historical Museum and Mac's Museum

Broadus, Southeast Montana

The rich history of the area is captured in the Powder River Historical Museum.

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Sunday

07:00 PM - 07:00 PM

16. Cheyenne Indian Museum

Ashland, Southeast Montana

The Cheyenne Indian Museum features artifacts and the history of the Plains Indians. A documentary film on the Saint Labre school is featured.

17. Schoolhouse History and Art Center

Colstrip, Southeast Montana

The gallery is housed in the first schoolhouse in Colstrip and provides visitors a look at Colstrip’s history with photographs and other exhibits.

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Sunday

07:00 PM - 07:00 PM

18. Madison Hotel - Historical Marker

West Yellowstone, Big Sky/Yellowstone Area

The Forest Service granted Jess Pierman a special-use permit to build a hotel and restaurant here in 1910.

19. The 1959 Earthquake - Historical Marker

West Yellowstone, Big Sky/Yellowstone Area

On August 17, 1959, at 11:37 P.M., this spectacularly scenic section of Montana became the focus of worldwide attention and made modern history.

20. Billings Tour

Billings, Billings Area

Since the American West’s early days, Billings has hosted a cast of famous figures: Custer, Calamity Jane, Buffalo Bill, Crazy Horse, Lewis & Clark and others.

21. Little Bighorn Battlefield

Crow Agency, Billings Area

Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument memorializes one of the last armed efforts of the Northern Plains Indians to preserve their ancestral way of life.

22. Pompey's Pillar

Pompeys Pillar, Billings Area

Pompey’s Pillar National Historic Landmark contains exceptional cultural, recreational and wildlife values.

23. Fort C.F. Smith

Saint Xavier, Billings Area

The ruins of this military post are about 25 miles west of here. In August 1866, two companies of soldiers guided by Jim Bridger established the fort on a plain overlooking the Big Horn.

24. Moss Mansion

Billings, Billings Area

The Moss Mansion is a unique historical look into the wealthy lifestyle that was present in the early 1900s.

25. Alberta Bair Theater

Billings, Billings Area

Located in the heart of Downtown Billings is the Alberta Bair Theater that is home to the Billings Community Concert Association and the Billings Symphony.

26. Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument

Crow Agency, Billings Area

This national monument, commemorates the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

27. Custer's Last Stand Reenactment

Crow Agency, Billings Area

Watch history come alive! Feel the whirlwinds of epic forces clashing on the high plains of Montana. Relive history as warriors of the Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho fight the Seventh Cavalry at Custer’s Last Stand Reenactment.

28. Treasure County 89ers Museum

Hysham, Billings Area

Local history is preserved with displays called “Tales of Treasure County.

29. Huntley Project Museum of Irrigated Agriculture

Huntley, Billings Area

This is a great stop for visitors interested in agriculture and irrigation.

30. Peter Yegen Jr. Yellowstone County Museum

Billings, Billings Area

The Museum incorporates an 1893 log cabin built by Paul McCormick, Sr., a pioneer Montana cattleman.

31. Big Horn County Historical Museum & Visitors Center

Hardin, Billings Area

The Museum complex consisting of twenty permanent buildings and represents the area's past.

32. Sacrifice Cliff

Billings, Billings Area

Sacrifice Cliff is unmarked but is located south of the Yellowstone River, opposite Boothill Cemetery.

33. Pictograph Cave State Park

Billings, Billings Area

Pictograph Cave State Park is a truly unique glimpse into the past and a dreamland for archaeologists.

34. Smith Mine Disaster

Washoe, Red Lodge Area

The tragedy at Smith Mine became Montanas worst coal mine disaster.

35. Bearcreek

Washoe, Red Lodge Area

Platted in 1905 by George Lamport and Robert Leavens, Bearcreek was the center of an extensive underground coal mining district.

36. Red Lodge

Red Lodge, Red Lodge Area

Coal was discovered in the Rock Creek Valley nearly two decades before Red Lodge was established as a mail stop on the Meteetsee Trail in 1884.

37. The Red Lodge Country

Red Lodge, Red Lodge Area

According to tradition, a band of Crow Indians left the main tribe and moved west into the foothills of the Beartooth Range many years ago.

38. Chief Plenty Coups Statue Marker

Red Lodge, Red Lodge Area

Crow country once ranged from Three Forks to the Black Hills, from the Musselshell to the Big Horn Mountains.

39. Battle At Canyon Creek

Laurel, Red Lodge Area

In 1877, just after The Battle at the Big Hole, the Nez Perce, led by Chief Joseph, started heading towards Yellowstone National Park in hopes of fleeing to Canada.

40. The Thomas Party

Greycliff, Livingston Area

In 1866, William Thomas, his son Charles, and a driver named Schultz left southern Illinois bound for the Gallatin Valley, Montana.

41. Captain Wm. Clark

Greycliff, Livingston Area

You are now following the historic trail of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. On his return from the Pacific in July 1806, Captain Clark camped for six days about forty miles downstream, near Park City.

42. The Crazy Mountains Historical Marker

Greycliff, Livingston Area

Called Awaxaawippiia by the Apsaalooka (Crow) Indians, the Crazy Mountains, which you can see to the northwest, are an igneous formation forged about 50 million years ago.

43. The Bonanza or Bozeman Trail

Big Timber, Livingston Area

In the early 1860s, there wasn’t a ranch in this country from Bismarck to Bozeman and from the Platte River to Canada. To whites it was land considered “fit only to raise Indians” and while some of them were hoping for a crop failure,

44. The Original Voges Bridge

Big Timber, Livingston Area

In late 1913, Sweet Grass County residents petitioned the County Commissioners to build a bridge across the Yellowstone River west of Big Timber.

45. Bozeman Pass

Livingston, Livingston Area

Sacajawea, the Shoshone woman who guided portions of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, led Captain Wm. Clark and his party of ten men over an old buffalo road through this pass on July 15, 1806.

46. Emigrant Gulch

Emigrant, Livingston Area

A party of emigrants who had traveled with a wagon train across the Plains via the Bozeman or Bonanza Trail arrived in this gulch August 28, 1864.

47. The Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness

Pray, Livingston Area

The Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness, which lies to the east, contains the largest single expanse of land above 10,000 feet in elevation in the United States.

48. Cooke City

Cooke City-Silver Gate, Big Sky/Yellowstone Area

In 1868 a party of prospectors came into this country by way of Soda Butte Creek. They found rich float but were set afoot by Indians.

49. Shields River Valley

Wilsall, Livingston Area

This river was named by Capt. Wm. Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in honor of John Shields, a member of the party.

50. Old Chico

Emigrant, Livingston Area

Chico began as a mining camp when a group of miners moved up the gulch from Yellowstone City. Some of them took up farming.

51. Roosevelt Arch

Gardiner, Big Sky/Yellowstone Area

This imposing stone archway on the edge of Gardiner is the North Entrance to Yellowstone Park and has marked the only year-round, drive-in entrance since 1903.

52. Father De Smet

Whitehall, Butte Area

The Lewis and Clark Expedition passed here, westward bound, August 2, 1805. Captain Lewis named the Boulder River “Fields Creek” for one of the party.

53. Lewis & Clark Expedition

Whitehall, Butte Area

On August 1, 1805, the Lewis and Clark Expedition camped at a point 200 yards west from this spot, on the south bank of the river facing the mouth of the creek which flows into the river from the north.

54. Meaderville

Butte, Butte Area

William Allison and G.O. Humphreys had the Butte hill, the richest hill on earth, entirely to themselves when they located their first quartz claims there in 1864.

55. Butte Historical Marker

Butte, Butte Area

The “greatest mining camp on earth” built on “the richest hill in the world.”

56. Jefferson Valley

Twin Bridges, Butte Area

The Lewis and Clark Expedition, westward bound, came up the Jefferson River in August 1805.

57. Robbers' Roost

Sheridan, Butte Area

In 1863, Pete Daly built a roadhouse on the stage route between Virginia City and Bannack to provide entertainment for, man and beast.

58. The Ruby Valley

Alder, Butte Area

The Ruby River was called the Passamari by the Indians and became known as the Stinking Water to the whites in the pioneer days.

59. Nevada City

Nevada City, Butte Area

A ghost town now, but once one of the hell roarin’ mining camps that lined Alder Gulch in the 1860s.

60. Virginia City

Virginia City, Butte Area

All of Montana has the deepest pride and affection for Virginia City. No more colorful pioneer mining camp ever existed.

61. Adobetown

Virginia City, Butte Area

Placer riches in Alder Gulch spawned many colorful communities. Among them, Adobetown flourished briefly as the center of mining activity in 1864. In that year alone, miners extracted over $350,000 in gold from nearby streams.

62. Elling Bank

Virginia City, Butte Area

Bankers Nowland and Weary set up business in this brick-veneered building, one of the town’s oldest stone structures, in 1864.

63. Metropolitan Meat Market

Virginia City, Butte Area

George Gohn was one of the first to arrive at Alder Gulch in 1863 where he and Conrad Kohrs set up a meat market in a log cabin.

64. Pfouts & Russel (Rank's Drug-Old Masonic Temple)

Virginia City, Butte Area

Paris Pfouts, Vigilante president, and Virginia City’s first mayor was instrumental in laying out the town.

65. Beaverhead Rock

Dillon, Butte Area

On August 10, 1805, members of the Lewis and Clark expedition pushed their way up the Jefferson River’s tributaries toward the Continental Divide and the Pacific Ocean beyond.

66. Browne's Bridge

Apex, Butte Area

Browne’s Bridge was constructed as a toll bridge by Fred Burr and James Minesinger in late 1862 and early 1863.

67. Bannack Historical Marker

Dillon, Butte Area

The Lewis and Clark Expedition, westward bound, passed here in August 1805. The old mining camp of Bannack is on Grasshopper Creek about twenty miles west of here.

68. The Montana-Utah Road

Dell, Butte Area

Interstate 15 is the latest in a series of roads that have traversed this area since prehistory. Although used for generations by Native Americans, the first recorded use of this route was by the Lewis and Clark Expedition on August 10, 1805.

69. Old Trail to the Gold Diggins'

Dell, Butte Area

Along in the early 1840s the Americans were like they are now, seething to go somewhere. It got around that Oregon was quite a place. The Iowa people hadn’t located California yet.

70. Sawtell's Ranch

Monida, Butte Area

In 1868, Gilman Sawtell started a dude ranch and Henry’s Lake fishery that did much to develop this natural resort area.

71. The Shambo Stagecoach Station

Monida, Butte Area

The historic Shambo waystation was once located on the opposite side of Shambo Pond. The station served as a livery and overnight stop for the Monida and Yellowstone which acted as a link between the railhead at Monida, Montana, and Yellowstone.

72. Granite Mountain Memorial

Butte, Butte Area

168 men lost their lives in the tragic “Spec fire” disaster on June 8, 1917.

73. The Mother Lode Theater

Butte, Butte Area

This beautiful building is located in Butte’s historic district and is a showplace for the performing arts.

74. Montana Children's Center

Twin Bridges, Butte Area

The economy of Twin Bridges was waning after the decline of the mining boom at the end of the 1800s.

75. Yesterday's Cafe

Montana, Butte Area

What do you do with an old school building in a virtual ghost town on an interstate exit? You could turn it into a cafe. That’s what Ken Berthelson did.

76. Tobacco Plains

Eureka, Northwest Montana

During the fur trapping and trading days in the early part of the last century this corner of the state was remote and inaccessible from the customary trapping grounds and operating bases of the Americans.

77. Symes Hot Springs Hotel & Mineral Baths

Hot Springs, Northwest Montana

Built in 1928, the historic Symes Hot Springs Hotel is one of many privately owned hot springs in Montana.

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78. Wild Horse Hot Springs

Hot Springs, Northwest Montana

The springs are located on a privately owned resort that is open year round. The bathhouse offers six private soaking rooms complete with bathroom and sauna with an hourly charge.

79. Tobacco Valley Historical Village & Museum

Eureka, Northwest Montana

This museum chronicles the original settlement of the valley by the whites and the Kootenai Indians through present day.

80. Old Jail Museum

Thompson Falls, Northwest Montana

This two-story Italianate style jail was built in 1907 at a cost of $5,000.

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81. Troy Museum & Visitor's Center Troy

Troy, Northwest Montana

This volunteer-run museum features all Troy-related historical items.

82. The Heritage Museum

Libby, Northwest Montana

The Heritage Museum, a 12-sided log structure, 130 feet in diameter, is filled with Libby’s old musical instruments, household implements, and logging equipment.

83. Montana City Old Town

Libby, Northwest Montana

Revisit Libby’s history by visiting Montana City Old Town.

84. Badrock Canyon

Flathead Area

The Great Northern Railway was constructed through Badrock Canyon in 1891.

85. A Permanent and Substantial Road

Bigfork, Flathead Area

In the early 20th century many roads in Montana were constructed by convicts from the state prison in Deer Lodge.

86. Polson-Flathead Historical Museum

Polson, Flathead Area

Displays that depict the late 1800s and early 1900s are exhibited both inside the Museum building and in the spacious yard.

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87. Hockaday Museum of Art

Kalispell, Flathead Area

The major visual art museum in northwest Montana is located in Kalispell’s Carnegie Library building minutes from Glacier National Park, Flathead Lake, and other area attractions.

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