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On North Wibaux Street near 1st Avenue Southwest, on the left when traveling north.
Harold G. Clark and Orlando Burgess, owners of the Clark Hardware Company, constructed this one-story brick and stucco commercial building in 1916. Representative of the period of Wibaux’s major economic development, it originally housed the . . . — — Map (db m163449) HM
On 2nd Avenue Northeast, aka Old Highway 10 near Log Cabin Road (County Road 7), on the right when traveling west.
Wherever you are in Montana, you stand in the pathway of Lewis and Clark. Their 1804-1806 expedition was a grand adventure to investigate the people and resources of the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase and to seek a navigable passage across the . . . — — Map (db m163384) HM
Near 2nd Avenue Northeast, aka Old Highway 10 near Log Cabin Road (County Road 7), on the right when traveling west.
In 1876, this was strictly buffalo and Indian country. From 1876 to 1881, the U.S. Army rounded up the Indians and forced them onto reservations while buffalo hunters cleared the range for the cattle boom of the Eighties.
Pierre Wibaux ran one of . . . — — Map (db m163386) HM
On Orgain Avenue at Drake Street, on the left when traveling east on Orgain Avenue.
In 1876 this was strictly buffalo and Indian country, There wasn't a ranch between Bismarck, North Dakota and Bozeman, Montana. But the U.S. Cavalry rounded up the hostile Indians from 1876 and 1881 and forced them onto reservations while the . . . — — Map (db m163389) HM
On North Wibaux Street near 1st Avenue Southwest, on the left when traveling north.
Constructed during Wibaux’s transition period from a cattle town into an agricultural center, this Queen Anne commercial style building originally housed the Smith Saloon. Partners William H. Smith, John R. Cornell, and W. H. North built the saloon . . . — — Map (db m163448) HM
On Orgain Avenue at C Street West, on the left when traveling west on Orgain Avenue.
Dismayed that his son’s adoptive home had no Catholic Church, Frenchman Achille Wibaux instructed Pierre to build one here. The rancher contributed $2,000 for the construction of this wood-frame, vernacular Gothic Revival structure. It was built in . . . — — Map (db m163451) HM
Near 2nd Avenue Northeast, aka Old Highway 10 near Log Cabin Road (County Road 7), on the left when traveling west.
Montana is famous for its dinosaur fossils. Paleontologists have discovered seventy-five different species of dinosaurs in Montana, more than any other state in America. The oldest dinosaur fossils are found in rocks of the Jurassic Period, which . . . — — Map (db m163385) HM
On North Wibaux Street near 1st Avenue Southwest, on the right when traveling north.
From its roots as a pre-1900s cattle town to a farming community after the turn of the century, Wibaux well illustrates the transformation borne by many small Montana towns. This historic district reflects the high point of the town’s influence as . . . — — Map (db m163388) HM
On Orgain Avenue near Drake Street, on the right when traveling east.
Pierre Wibaux, scion of a distinguished French textile family, arrived here at the settlement of Mingusville in 1883, establishing a cattle ranch about 12 miles north. His herds fared well during the devastating “Hard Winter of . . . — — Map (db m163387) HM