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July 4, 1961[2] Bannackis a ghost townin Beaverhead County, Montana, United States, located on Grasshopper Creek, approximately 11 miles (18 km) upstream from where Grasshopper Creek joins with the Beaverhead River south of Dillon. Founded in 1862, the town is a National Historic Landmarkmanaged by the state of Montana as Bannack State Park.
0778036. Virginia City is a town in and the county seat of Madison County, Montana, United States. [3] In 1961 the town and the surrounding area were designated a National Historic Landmark District, the Virginia City Historic District. [4] The population was 219 at the 2020 census.
Abandoned. 1941. Named for. Comet Mine. Elevation. 6,388 ft (1,947 m) Comet is a ghost town located approximately twenty miles (32 kilometers) south-southwest of Helena, Montana, United States. It is reached by following High Ore Road north from Interstate 15. The remains of the town cover about thirty-five acres and consist of an ore hopper, a ...
Bannack, a Montana ghost town. This is an incomplete list of ghost towns in Montana.. A ghost town is a town or city which has lost all of its businesses and population. A town often becomes a ghost town because the economic activity that supported it has failed, or due to natural or human-caused disasters such as a flood, government action, uncontrolled lawlessness, or war.
Garnet is a ghost town in Granite County, Montana, United States. A thriving mining town in the 1890s, Garnet's population declined when local hard rock mines closed. The remaining buildings have been preserved and are open to visitors. The site is managed by the Bureau of Land Management .
Coordinates: 46°35′50″N 111°25′26″W. Diamond City, c. 1870. Confederate Gulch is a steeply incised gulch or valley on the west-facing slopes of the Big Belt Mountains in the U.S. state of Montana. Its small stream drains westward into Canyon Ferry Lake, on the upper Missouri River near present-day Townsend, Montana.
Montana City, later, became part of Deadwood. Montezuma: Lawrence: 1879-Laid out in 1879, a scant mile up Irish Gulch, from Rochford, and named for the nearby Montezuma mine. Moon: Pennington: Neglected: Morganfield: Union: No real information discovered, other than it was a ghost town in Union County. Moss City: Custer: Unknown: Its exact ...
October 15, 1966. Designated NHLD. July 4, 1961 [2] The Virginia City Historic District is a National Historic Landmark District encompassing Virginia City, Montana, United States. Designated in 1966, the district includes over two hundred nineteenth-century buildings, representing the site of a major gold strike and the capital of Montana for ...