On Interstate 15 Frontage Road near Sunnyside Road, on the left when traveling west.
The Hope, Katy and White Elephant mines behind this sign were once part of the most productive mining enterprise in the history of the Basin. The Hope and Katy lodes produced $5,000,000 of ore between 1890 and 1910. On April 20, 1895, the Blast . . . — — Map (db m186124) HM
On Earth Angel Road (Basin Street) near Cataract Creek Road, on the right when traveling west.
This is about the center of a rich mining district extending from Butte to Helena. The mountains are spurs of the Continental Divide.
Ghost and active mining camps are to be found in almost every gulch. The ores yield old, silver, copper , lead . . . — — Map (db m186119) HM
On Hot Springs Road near State Highway 69, on the left when traveling west.
For centuries Native Americans have been coming to these pure, flowing hot water springs for rest and healing. Legend tells that they called this area Peace Valley. They agreed to lay down their weapons when they sojourned here, believing that the . . . — — Map (db m186201) HM
On Hot Springs Road near State Highway 69, on the left when traveling west.
Originally this site, now named Boulder Hot Springs, was known only to Nomadic Indians during yearly mountain crossings. The waters bubble out of the mountains just south of here at temperatures ranging from 120 to 182 degrees and are known . . . — — Map (db m186245) HM
On West Centennial Avenue near North Washington Street, on the left when traveling west.
In 1888, Jefferson County voters passed a $40,000 bond issue to build a permanent courthouse. Flourishing gold and silver mines and the advent of the railroad meant the county would see its population quadruple between 1870 and 1890, and there . . . — — Map (db m186193) HM
On Grizzly Drive near Main Street, on the left when traveling south.
Montana pledged its commitment to children with disabilities in 1887 when Territorial Governor Preston Leslie requested funds for a Montana Deaf and Dumb Asylum. Its title, although shocking by today’s standards, reflects accepted nineteenth-century . . . — — Map (db m186195) HM
The trusses on this structure were salvaged from the "Hubbard" or "Red" Bridge. The original structure was built by the Gillette-Herzog Manufacturing Company in 1899. The company was one of several Minnesota-based bridge construction firms active in . . . — — Map (db m186202) HM
On August 1st, 1805, William Clark celebrated his 35th birthday by shooting a bighorn sheep as he passed through the Jefferson River Canyon.
When the Corps of Discovery explored this area, bighorn sheep were common here. Later in the century . . . — — Map (db m141644) HM
On State Highway 2, 3.5 miles south of Interstate 90, on the left when traveling south.
In August 1840, Pierre Jean De Smet, a Catholic missionary of Belgian birth, camped near the mouth of the Boulder River with the Salish Indians and celebrated the holy sacrifice of the Mass. Father De Smet left the Indians soon after to go to St. . . . — — Map (db m128362) HM
Today as you travel in Lewis and Clark Caverns State Park you are likely to see mule deer, signs of elk and perhaps a black bear. This terrain was suitable for wildlife but when Lewis and Clark passed here in 1805 and 1806, these potential food . . . — — Map (db m141648) HM
On State Highway 2, 3.5 miles south of Interstate 90, on the left when traveling south.
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. Meriwether Lewis and three others, on a . . . — — Map (db m128371) HM
On State Highway 2, on the left when traveling east.
This is the former site of the Lewis and Clark Caverns Park Entrance Building, a simple A-frame which welcomed visitors to the park for over fifty years.
In 1939, park management began plans to build a greeting center and caretaker residence . . . — — Map (db m141650) HM
On Interstate 15 at milepost 176, on the right when traveling north.
The story of the Elkhorn Mountains Volcanics and the Boulder Batholith is the short of how molten magma or melted rock rising up through the crust of the earth just kept coming and coming and coming - from about 81 to about 74 million years ago. . . . — — Map (db m186551) HM
On Interstate 15 at milepost 176, on the right when traveling north.
Time was when ox and mule teams used to freight along this route. A five-ton truck doesn't look as picturesque but there hasn't been much change in the language of the drivers. bar
Jerk-line skinners were plumb fluent when addressing their teams. . . . — — Map (db m186274) HM
On State Highway 282 at Stoney Brook Drive (Virgina Road), on the right when traveling north on State Highway 282.
The Fisk or Northern Overland Expedition camped at the future site of Montana City just east of I-15 in 1862. The outfit, consisting of 125 emigrants, left Minnesota in June, 1862, under the leadership of Capt. James Fisk for the purpose of opening . . . — — Map (db m186275) HM
On State Highway 55 near Hanson Lane, on the left when traveling north.
Between the time dinosaurs went went extinct 65 million years ago, and the beginning of the Ice Age, some 2 million years ago, is a time called the Age of Mammals. During this period of time the western third of Montana experienced a variety of . . . — — Map (db m141642) HM
On West Legion Avenue at North Main Street, on the left when traveling west on West Legion Avenue.
Authorized by the town council in 1922, the fish pond was designed and built by American Legion commander, Edwin C. Speck. He received $195.40 for labor and materials. The rocks on the center pyramid are all donated local ore samples. A dough boy . . . — — Map (db m193058) HM WM
On West Legion Avenue at North Main Street, on the right when traveling east on West Legion Avenue.
Newlyweds Lot and Hilda Borden arrived in Whitehall early in 1900, and for the next seventy years, their business contributed to the local economy. At first, Lot ran a saloon and Hilda a cafe. The Bordens built the east portion of the present . . . — — Map (db m193009) HM
On Interstate 90, 10.5 miles east of Interstate 15, on the right when traveling east.
Montana was part of Idaho Territory in 1863. In 1864 when
the Idaho Territorial Legislature agreed to a separate
Montana Territory, its members wanted the boundary to
be the Continental Divide. When the separation bill was
proposed in Congress, . . . — — Map (db m91535) HM