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In the 1940s Charles and Sue Bovey began to buy up abandoned buildings and restoring them, in effect creating an open-air museum.[3] The landmark district encompasses an area of about 20,000 acres (81 km2), including the entire city limits of Virginia City and a significant portion of Alder Gulch where mining operations took place.
Although Bannack was the first territorial capital, the territorial legislature moved the capital to Virginia City on February 7, 1865. [10] It remained the capital until April 19, 1875, when it moved to Helena. [11] Thomas Dimsdale began publication of Montana's first newspaper, the Montana Post, in Virginia City on August 27, 1864. [12]
Shoal Creek Living History Museum, Kansas City; Montana. Daniels County Museum & Pioneer Town, Scobey; Nevada City Living History Museum, Virginia City; New Hampshire. Fort at Number 4, Charlestown; Strawbery Banke, Portsmouth; New Jersey. Allaire Village, Wall Township; Historic Cold Spring Village, Cape May; Longstreet Farm, Holmdel Township ...
Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman. This list of museums in Montana encompasses museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Oct. 31—For Margaret Davis, stepping into the role of executive director of the Northwest Montana History Museum is a chance to not only help preserve the area's history, but also to make history.
Only since 1859 had steamboats been traveling up the Missouri River to Fort Benton, Montana Territory. When gold was found at the Alder Gulch claim in Montana in 1863, streams of hopeful prospectors migrated to the area from other states, creating one of the most prosperous frontier cities, Virginia City. Within a year of the find, more than ...
The Montana landmarks emphasize its frontier heritage, the passage of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Montana's contributions to the national park movement, and other themes. Three sites in Montana extend across the Idaho or North Dakota state line, and are listed by the National Park Service as Idaho NHLs or North Dakota NHLs.
February 7 – Virginia City, Montana becomes the second capital of Montana Territory [38] March 24 – Congress authorizes the Blackfoot Treaty of 1865 (signed in October at Fort Benton, Montana ) by which the Blackfoot tribes ceded all lands south of the Missouri and Teton rivers and west of the Milk river to the Rocky Mountains to the U.S ...