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The Montana Ghost Town Preservation Society, founded in 1969 by then-professor of architectural history at Montana State University John N. Dehaas Jr., [1] is a non-profit organization dedicated to educating the public to the benefits of preserving historic buildings, [2] sites, and artifacts that make up the living history of Montana.
Virginia City is a town in and the county seat of Madison County, Montana, United States. [4] In 1961 the town and the surrounding area were designated a National Historic Landmark District , the Virginia City Historic District . [ 5 ]
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.
Pages in category "Ghost towns in Montana" ... List of ghost towns in Montana; Montana Ghost Town Preservation Society; A. ... Virginia City, Montana; W. Waco, Montana;
Nov. 3—MAGGIE VALLEY — The legal struggle for control of the former Ghost Town in the Sky property took another turn this week as the attorney for defendant Coastal Development LLC filed new ...
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 ten years.
Nevada City (/ n ɪ ˈ v eɪ d ə / niv-AY-də) is an unincorporated community in Madison County, Montana, United States.In the 1860s, it was one of two centers of commerce in what was known as one of the richest gold strikes in the Rocky Mountain West, along with its sister city Virginia City.
Bannack is a ghost town in 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 Landmark managed by the state of Montana as Bannack State Park. [3]