St. Vincent Hospital, Billing's (sic) first hospital, opened in 1899. The Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth, Kansas organized the original hospital at the corner of Division Street and Broadwater Avenue. An early admissions book recorded patients . . . — — Map (db m168490) HM
The town of Coulson was founded along the north bank of the Yellowstone River in 1877. Residents named the community after the Coulson Steamboat Packet Company, hoping to prosper from expected steamboat traffic. The town hosted a post office, a . . . — — Map (db m168157) HM
Gustavus Swift of Sagamore, Massachusetts, founded a meat-packing company in 1850 that revolutionized the industry. His contributions included assembly-line processing, promotion of the safety of pre-cut and processed meat, and improvement and use . . . — — Map (db m165856) HM
An address delivered at the depot by former President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt in 1918 drew the largest gathering in the history of Billings to that point. Roosevelt's address encouraged local enlistment in support of the United States war effort. . . . — — Map (db m166229) HM
Billings is home to two accredited colleges: Rocky Mountain College, a private liberal arts school, and Montana State University Billings, a state university.
ROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE
Rocky Mountain College is a merger of . . . — — Map (db m168726) HM
The Nez Perce (Nee-Me-Poo) National Historic Trail marks the path of U.S. soldiers pursuing Chief Looking Glass and Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce during the summer of 1877. Treaties forced bands of Nez Perce from their homes In Idaho and Oregon. . . . — — Map (db m168015) HM
This monument is dedicated to the men and women of Montana, past and present.
The Centennial Cattle Drive originated in Roundup Montana, September 4, 1989 with cattle herds numbering several thousand and riders from every corner of the state and . . . — — Map (db m166392) HM
(The marker is composed of three panels.) (Panel 1:)
1879, May
Frederick Billings becomes president of the Northern Pacific Railway. One of the original members of the NP Board of Directors, he had served as director for . . . — — Map (db m168492) HM
Built around 1900, the McCormick Hotel is a three-story gray brick building with raised patterns of buff-colored brick and cast stone window lintel keystones, reflecting elements of the Renaissance Revival style. The hotel was, for a time, the home . . . — — Map (db m166253) HM
The depot was opened in 1909 for use by three railroad companies: the Northern Pacific, Great Northern, and Chicago, Burlington and Quincy. Designed in the Beaux Arts Eclectic style, the depot was designed by the Northern Pacific Railroad's chief . . . — — Map (db m166249) HM
The Moss Mansion Historic House Museum faces Division Street on the west edge of downtown Billings. Preston Boyd Moss, who moved to Billings in 1892, was a prominent civic leader who owned and operated the First National Bank, Billings Light and . . . — — Map (db m168304) HM
One of Billings' most devastating fires destroyed the original Babcock/Selvidge Building in June of 1919. After being completely rebuilt, the building housed various motor supply and automobile dealers including Hines Motor Supply Company and the . . . — — Map (db m166387) HM
The Stockman Bar originally opened at 2805-2807 Montana Avenue in 1933. After the building was gutted by fire in 1943, the popular gathering place for cattlemen and locals was rebuilt on the adjacent lot at 2809-2811 Montana Avenue. — — Map (db m166315) HM
The origin of the Yellowstone River name came from early French fur traders who called it La Roche Jaune, the 'River of the Yellow Rock,' after the orange and yellow colored rimrocks rising from the river valley.
The Yellowstone River is led by . . . — — Map (db m168156) HM
Once considered the “wrong side of the tracks,” Minnesota Avenue was known for its many bars, brothels, cigar stores, and Chinese restaurants. (Chinese districts often bordered red light districts, serving inexpensive food to the working . . . — — Map (db m165807) HM
Buffalo meant life to the Plains Indians, and the mountain Indians used to slip down from the hills for their share, too. Some tribes would toll buffalo into a concealed corral and then down them; another system was to stampede a herd over a . . . — — Map (db m165475) HM
By mid-April 1876, Colonel John Gibbon's most immediate concern was crossing to the north side of the Yellowstone before reaching the confluence of the Bighorn River. Plans called for the Montana Column to patrol the lower Yellowstone from the . . . — — Map (db m165445) HM
The mouth of the Bighorn River as it enters the Yellowstone, 13 miles east of here, is one of the most significant areas in Montana history.
The Crow Indians knew the Yellowstone as the Elk River. French explorers called it the
la Roche . . . — — Map (db m163404) HM
The area that surrounds the mouth of the Bighorn River as it enters the Yellowstone 13 miles east of here is one of the most significant areas in Montana history.
The Indians knew the Yellowstone as the Elk River. French explorers called it . . . — — Map (db m165450) HM
Motoring was an adventure in the second decade of the 20th century and people usually didn't travel very far from home. There were a few paved roads, most were choked with dust during the summers, knee-deep in mud in the rainy seasons, and . . . — — Map (db m165449) HM
Turned porch supports, elaborately carved brackets, a baluster frieze, and decorative cresting along the roofline ornament this gable-front-and-wing residence. Railroads brought these precut architectural elements to small towns along their tracks, . . . — — Map (db m190837) HM
As soldiers and warriors exchanged fire here at the Canyon mouth, most of the Nez Perce were escaping up a side canyon to the plateau above. The US Army incurred too many casualties to pursue. At the base of the butte near the cottonwoods they . . . — — Map (db m154002) HM WM
In the distance the US Army troops were approaching at a gallop in pursuit of the Nez Perce. After fleeing for 26 miles, the Nez Perce chose this place to make a stand because of the canyon mouth offering natural defenses. Positioned high on the . . . — — Map (db m154003) WM
Soldiers were elements from the Seventh and First Cavalry and the Fourth Artillery. Col. Samuel Sturgis commanding. Casualties; Three dead, eleven wounded.
Indians engaged wee the Nez Perce triple, escaping from their reservation and fleeing to . . . — — Map (db m190839) HM
American auto tourists took to the roads in record numbers in the 1930s. To lure these tourists to Montana, the state highway department's Robert Fletcher developed an ambitious promotional program. It included publication of the first "official" . . . — — Map (db m190775) HM
The Northern Pacific Railroad steamed through the Yellowstone Basin in 1883, passing the small agricultural community of Carlton. The town was renamed Laurel, and a post office opens there in 1886
The Rocky Fork Railroad, an affiliate of the . . . — — Map (db m190774) HM
Captain William Clark provided the first documentation of what is now called Laurel, Montana on July 24, 1806 while encamped at the mouth of the Clarks Fork of the Yellowstone River. His mark, documented on the map that day, projected what he . . . — — Map (db m190772) HM
The park links a series of widely separated sites of deep significance to the Nez Perce historic villages, battlefield, and legends sites. The park experience involves a journey across both time and territory. Although firmly connected to homeland, . . . — — Map (db m154503) HM
This historic bell is from Laurel's North School, which stood between 1909 and 1969 on the 700 block of 1st Avenue. The school's 1908 corner stone stands behind the bell.
The bell was placed in the Chamber of Commerce's garden bed in care of the . . . — — Map (db m190835) HM
In June 1877, several bands of the Nez Perce, resisting relocation from their native lands in northeast Oregon to a reservation in North-Central Idaho, attempted to escape to the east through Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming over the Rocky Mountains into . . . — — Map (db m190773) HM
The first coast-to-coast auto route across the northern tier of states.
Motto: A Good Road from Plymouth Rock to Puget Sound.
Before 1912
Railroads dominated long distance transportation. Local road were dust and mud. There . . . — — Map (db m190771) HM
The Yellowstone Valley at Pompeys Pillar was a crossroads for travelers and wildlife and a cavalry campsite and staging area.
The artist’s rendering on this sign depicts the area directly across the river as it may have looked in 1873 when Lt. . . . — — Map (db m82763) HM
"The Apsáalooke say that a good home has a road to it. This is in reference to a home where people like to come and visit.... At a good home visitors are always welcome." Excerpted from Apsáalooke Social and Family Structure, by Dale . . . — — Map (db m165555) HM
At the time of Lewis and Clark's journey, it is estimated that there were from 30 to 60 million free ranging buffalo on America's Great Plains. These animals were the main sustenance of the American Plains Indians as well as a critical food source . . . — — Map (db m165516) HM
In June, 1873, a Northern Pacific Railroad surveying party escorted by 1,500 soldiers, including the 7th Cavalry under the command of George Armstrong Custer, and 325 civilians, left Dakota Territory for the Yellowstone Valley to survey a route for . . . — — Map (db m62147) HM
Archaeologist Tom Rust, PhD of Montana State University Billings, carried out a detailed archaeological study of the proposed site. Using Modern tools and technology, he made convincing discoveries.
Where Clark's camp symbol was mapped, a . . . — — Map (db m165718) HM
President Jefferson told Lewis to record mineral resources of every kind; but more particularly metals, limestone, pit coal, & saltpeter. At that time, Jefferson considered coal the basic natural resource of the future. Today, eastern Montana has . . . — — Map (db m165554) HM
Clark intended to canoe the entire length of the Yellowstone. But, for four days he noted "I can See no timber Sufficently large... to answer my purpose." Then a tragic event happened on the evening of July 18, when Gibson "fell on a snag . . . — — Map (db m165769) HM
"I deturmined to have two Canoes made out of the largest of those trees and lash them together which will cause them to be Study (sturdy)..." - William Clark, July 20, 1806
After traveling by horseback over 100 miles in five days, . . . — — Map (db m165717) HM
On July 24, while traveling through what is now Billings, Montana, Clark wrote, "for me to mention or give an estimate of the differant Spcies of wild animals on this river particularly Buffalow, Elk Antelopes & Wolves would be incredible. I . . . — — Map (db m165556) HM
Captain Wm. Clark, of the Lewis & Clark Expedition stopped here July 25, 1806 on his way down the Yellowstone. He wrote in his journal that the rock which he named Pompey’s Tower, was: “200 feet high and 400 paces in secumpherance and only . . . — — Map (db m154973) HM
Called Iishiia Anaache or "Place Where the Mountain Lion Dwells" by the Apsaalooka (Crow) people, Pompey's Pillar was a well-known landmark to the Plains Indians. It was here, at a strategic natural crossing of the Yellowstone, or Elk River as it . . . — — Map (db m62146) HM
Pompey's Pillar Discovered and named by Captain William Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition July 25, 1806. With Clark returning down the Yellowstone were: Pryor, Shannon, Bratton, Windsor, Hall, Shields, Gibson, Labiche, Chaboneau, Sacajawea . . . — — Map (db m145655) HM
At Canoe Camp, the party of thirteen, including Sacajawea and Pomp, were busy carving out the canoe, hunting, dressing skins, making clothing, "as they are nearly naked" and drying meat to provision themselves. "The horses being fatigued . . . — — Map (db m165770) HM
Although Clark encountered no American Indians along the Yellowstone, they crossed paths many times, and Clark paid keen attention to signs of their presence. The day before reaching Pompeys Pillar, Clark visited a very large ceremonial lodge built . . . — — Map (db m165716) HM
As you walk down the curving sidewalk through the Interpretive Center to the Pillar, notice the narrow strip of concrete that runs near the middle. This represents a map of the Yellowstone River. It runs from the vase of the Bozeman Pass where . . . — — Map (db m165514) HM
Pompeys Pillar is a unique geological formation born of water. Sediments carried by an ancient river were very slowly and forcefully compacted into rock-the same sandstone and siltstone visible today in the Pillar. As the waters receded and sediment . . . — — Map (db m165785) HM
When Captain William Clark came down the Yellowstone in 1806, he described a vast landscape filled with wildlife and a wealth of potential. To feed the nation's growing need for arable land, the Yellowstone River Valley shifted from a vast migration . . . — — Map (db m228458) HM
On July, 25, 1806, Captain William Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition stopped here and carved his name and the date into the rock. His inscription is the only evidence still visible along the trail to mark the Corps of Discovery's historic . . . — — Map (db m165787) HM
Clark's party arrived at the Three Forks. Here the party split, "6 canoes and their party of 10 men under the command of Sergt. Ordway Set out" to travel down the Missouri to the Great Falls. Captain Clark with a party of 12, 49 horses and a . . . — — Map (db m165771) HM
Although the majority of their journey was accomplished by traveling waterways, Clark and his party could not have gotten over the Rocky Mountains without horses and still needed them once they arrived at the Yellowstone. They continued to hunt . . . — — Map (db m165729) HM
Now that Clark and his party were out of the mountains and preparing to travel on the Yellowstone, they needed to build canoes in order to rendezvous with Lewis as quickly as possible. Few large trees existed along the headwaters regions of the . . . — — Map (db m165731) HM
At 8 am, Clark and his party arrived at the confluence of the Yellowstone and Missouri Rivers. They formed their camp at the same point between the two rivers where they had encamped on the 26th of April, 1805. They had no way of knowing they were . . . — — Map (db m165511) HM
William Clark left us with very descriptive, consistent and acceptably accurate historical data. Using all of it was the key to success in finding Canoe Camp on the Yellowstone River.
The main objective of the extensive study was to place Clark's . . . — — Map (db m165719) HM
Following the route that Sacajawea pointed out, what is now Bozeman Pass, Clark and his party arrived at the Yellowstone River. Clark called it the Rochejhone, a French word that translates to Yellowstone. Several tribes names translate to Elk . . . — — Map (db m165778) HM
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