N 46° 26.135 W 110° 54.278. Along Highway 89 about 7 miles south of the town of White Sulfur Springs, this Montana Historical Highway Marker stands at a pullout on the west side of the highway. The mountains to the west are the Big Belts and those to the east the Castle Mountains. The gulches draining the west slope of the Biq Belts were ...

What started as a 465-acre-ranch soon became a central railroad hub for the 1880s mining boom in southwest Montana. Originally named "Terminus", this town's connections to the railroad, aided by its central role in an emerging cattle industry, helped it thrive after the miners left. This is the history of Dillon, Montana.

Spring, 1863: Gold is struck at Alder Gulch, leading to the creation of mining towns ia City and Nevada City. Spring, 1864: Bannack is established as the first territorial capital of Montana. Fall, 1864: Gold is struck at Last Chance Gulch, leading to the creation of nearby Helena as another gold town. Fall, 1889: Montana becomes a state ...

The town of ia City sprang up after gold was discovered in Alder Gulch in 1863. Toward the end of the Civil War, Montana's gold played a role in maintaining the Union's financial stability.

The Confederate Gulch Placers is a gold mine located in Broadwater county, Montana at an elevation of 5,000 feet. About the MRDS Data: ... Comment (Location): UTM LOCATION OF INTERSECTION OF CONFEDERATE GULCH AND MONTANA GULCH . Comment (Production): MANY CLAIMS PRODUCED GOLD AT THE RATE OF ABOUT 5 TOZ PER …

Posted at 5:30 PM, Jul 01, 2020. and last updated 4:34 PM, Jul 01, 2020. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is changing the names of two Canyon Ferry campgrounds that some people might find ...

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The placer gold came from gravel in Confederate Creek and from gravel bars above the creek deposited during the Pleistocene Epoch (Ice Age). Gold from Montana Bar, a 2-acre gravel deposit on a bench above the gulch, was so plentiful it …

In May of 1863, a find in Alder Gulch – 45 miles northeast of Bannack – proved to be the largest of all of Montana's gold strikes and spawned Nevada City and ia City. The …

Contact. MAILING ADDRESS 7700 Canyon Ferry Road. Helena, MT 59602. CONTACT 406-475-3310. FAX 406-475-9147. Details. SEASON All Year. SPECIAL DIRECTIONS Confederate Recreation Area is located 2 miles east of Townsend on US Highway 12, at milepost 2 go 18 miles north on Secondary Road 284. SERVICES Handicapped …

The estimated placer gold production of Confederate Gulch alone was about $12 million (580,550 ounces) (Pardee and Schrader, 1933, p. 172-173), and significant production has also come from placers along White, Avalanche, Beaver, Indian, and Crow Creeks (Lyden, 1948, p. 17-20).

It is said that Emperor Maximilian loaded 15 ox-drawn wagons with $10 million worth of gold bars, silver, jewelry, and other valuable items into 15 wagons pulled …

Great story ! How much of the gold mined at Confederate Gulch was stolen by the infamous Montana Vigilantes before it got to ia City or Helena ? The …

The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, The Montana Racial Equity Project, Asian heritage group the Mai Wah Society, The Wilderness Society and other partners have petitioned for the renaming of three Montana geographic features that currently honor Confederate President Jefferson Davis, a white supremacist defender of …

Filter 76 gold mines by commodity, disposition, development status, and record type in Meagher County, Montana. Home. Mines. The United States ... Confederate Gulch Placer Near Winston, Montana. Meagher, MT County, Montana Location. Copper, Gold, and Lead Commodity. Mine Development Status.

The total population of Montana in 1866 was 28,000; 35 per cent were working and living in Confederate Gulch. The discovery of the Montana Bar. A former gold prospector in Colorado, Charles Fredericks, led a group of Germans who arrived at Confederate Gulch late in 1865. He sank a prospect hole in a clearing on a shelf up from the gulch floor.

Dick Komberec of Bearmouth found this old whiskey bottle in one of his many excavations in the Garnet Mountains. William A. Clark's wealth and connections with Deer Lodge banker S. E. Larabie ...

The area drew other Southern sympathizers and the area became known as Confederate Gulch. Confederate Campground was named for the area. The Bureau of Reclamation is a federal agency under the U.S ...

The gulch corresponded with the naming of Confederate Gulch era when mining and the settling of the Montana Territory were in full play. Two other sites that are in the heart of the Bitteroot Mountains were named after President Davis and have historic and local history tied to them from the mid to late 1800's as landmarks.

The petition asks the U.S. Board of Geographic Names to rename Montana's Jeff Davis Peak and Jeff Davis Creek in Beaverhead County and Jeff Davis Gulch in and Clark County. Jefferson Davis was the president of the Confederated States during the Civil War and a proponent of slavery.

There's no statue of Sam Adams in Helena. Yet there is a memorial to Confederate soldiers, given to the city by The Daughters of the Confederacy in 1915. In a letter to city commissioners, eight members of …

As the story goes, by the summer of 1863, word from Montana had it that Alder Gulch was bearing chunks of gold that could be plucked from the ground by any cotton-picker. Easier pickings than California once offered. ... Alder Gulch, Confederate Gulch, Last Chance Gulch, Park Gulch, Oro Fino Gulch, French Bar, Skelly Gulch, Greenhorn Gulch, Dry ...

History. Various indigenous peoples lived in the territory of the present-day state of Montana for thousands of years. Historic tribes encountered by Europeans and settlers from the United States included the Crow in the south-central area; the Cheyenne in the southeast; the Blackfeet, Assiniboine and Gros Ventres in the central and north-central area; and the …

Western Montana was founded on placer gold and the Big Belts lent a hand. While the better-known Last Chance Gulch gave birth to Helena, in 1864, three former Confederate soldiers discovered gold in a steep narrow canyon heading east of today's Canyon Ferry Lake and christened the area Confederate Gulch.

The site of a gold strike above present-day Canyon Ferry Reservoir in 1864 by Confederate soldiers on parole from the Civil War, Confederate Gulch was at one time …

Helena. The crooked path of Last Chance Gulch, weaving between original mining claims, memorializes Helena's chaotic beginning as a gold camp in 1864. Within a year of the …

Today, some more common Montana sapphires can fetch $1000—$4000 a carat, but the pure and bright "cornflower" blue stones from Yogo Gulch often hit the …

East of the Missouri River along the Big Belt Mountains lies the remains of what use to be a booming gold mine district that was then called Confederate Gulch. Today Confederate Gulch is known as the Canyon Ferry Reservoir at its peak over 10,000 people occupied the district after the discovery of gold there in 1864. The area continued to …

The town fourished and was the County Seat Meagher County. However, Diamond City peaked in 1868 - a mere 4 years after the initial discovery of gold in Confederate Gulch. By 1880 the population of Diamond City had fallen to just over 200. The Meagher County Seat was moved to White Sulphur Springs. By 1900, the town was deserted and placer mined ...

The Fabulous Montana Bar In Confederate Gulch in 1865 . It was slow going for Diamond city and the prospecting camp. In the winter and spring of 1865 a lot of prospectors went through Confederate gulch because they were few trails from the Missouri Valley up over the big belt Mountains to Smith river valley, where there was …

Elevation: 6,440 Feet (1,963 Meters) Commodity: Gold Lat, Long: 46.62028, -111.41444 Map: View on Google Maps

The confederate Gulch is a great place to prospect for gold in Montana. Gold was first discovered at the gulch by former confederate soldiers in 1864. When the Civil War …