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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.
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.
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, Montana a ghost town reportedly haunted by executed outlaws and a woman in a blue gown named Dorothy. [82] Bannack, a ghost town, was founded in 1862 and named after the Bannock Indian tribe. Several claims of hauntings have been made there, including the apparition of a woman in a blue gown named Dorothy who drowned in Grasshopper Creek.
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.
Rocky Point in the 1870s and 1880s was well known to be a tough town. Extending out from the Missouri Breaks, both to the north and south, were the vast grasslands of the eastern Montana prairies. In the early 1880s the buffalo on these ranges were hunted to near extinction, and were replaced by large herds of cattle, most trailed up from Texas ...
Rimini, ( / ˈrɪmənaɪ /) is a ghost town in Lewis and Clark County, Montana, United States. It is one of the oldest mining districts in the state. It was established when silver lodes were discovered in 1864. Other names for the district were Lewis and Clark, Tenmile, Vaughn, Colorado, and Bear Gulch. [3] It was the site of Camp Rimini.