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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: July 27, 2021
Caption: Traveler's Crossroads for Centuries Marker
Additional Description: Captions: (background) The seventh stop on a stage route connecting Bannack and Virginia City, the Point of Rocks Stage Station operated for 22 years, when the Montana-Utah Road was the most heavily traveled in the state. Most of the buildings were removed by 1920, but cattle and ranching have remained.; (bottom right) Imprints of the area's original roads show up in this 1999 aerial photo of the lands around the present wetlands. You can still see traces of the Montana-Utah Road (rust-colored dashed line) running along the base of the bluff.
Submitted: March 6, 2022, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p642028
File Size: 3.477 Megabytes

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