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The barn was built on a grand scale to house his purebred Belgian horses, general livestock, and farm equipment. At the time, the ranch consisted of 335 acres and was valued at $45,170.2 It was the largest ranch in Carbon County at the time and was described by a reporter as "one of the finest farms in Montana, equipped from the woven wire ...
The ranch was purchased by W. C. Child about 1885, and was originally named "White Face Farm". [2] Child was one of the first ranchers to raise purebred Hereford cattle in Montana Territory. [3] After the very harsh Winter of 1886–87, he built a 27,000-square-foot (2,500 m 2), [2] 55 feet (17 m) high barn with a fieldstone foundation.
Pages in category "Ranches on the National Register of Historic Places in Montana" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Grant–Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site, created in 1972, commemorates the Western cattle industry from its 1850s inception through recent times. The original ranch was established in 1862 by a Canadian fur trader, Johnny Grant, at Cottonwood Creek, Montana (future site of Deer Lodge, Montana), along the banks of the Clark Fork river.
This is a list of properties and historic districts in Montana that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The state's more than 1,100 listings are distributed across all of its 56 counties .
The Meadowbrook Stock Farm, also known as Thomas R. Murray Ranch, is a site on the National Register of Historic Places located near U.S. Route 87 near Hobson, Montana. It was added to the Register on January 13, 1992. The main house on the property is a two-story farmhouse built of cast stone in 1908.
3.3.6 Montana. 3.3.7 Nebraska. 3.3.8 New Mexico. ... This is a list of ranches and sheep and cattle stations, organized by continent. Most of these are notable either ...
Therefore the genesis of the Bones Brothers Ranch or the former Z. T. Cox Ranch occurred after the "Hard Winter" of 1886-1887 during the transition from open range to fenced pastures. The ranch developed at the end of the open range boom period of the 1880s in eastern Montana where the large corporations overstocked and overgrazed the ranges.