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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]
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.
The town supported a developed main street with a grain elevator, a bank, stores, a dance hall and lumber yards. A post office was open in 1918 with Frances Riopel serving as postmaster; it remained in operation until 1936. [4] The town was primarily an agricultural community with a stop and depot. The Wheat basin post office was closed in 1936.
Garnet is a ghost town in Granite County, Montana, United States. [2] A thriving mining town in the 1890s, Garnet's population declined when local hard rock mines closed. The remaining buildings have been preserved and are open to visitors.
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 large ore processing building, several other company buildings, and ...
By 1913, little was left of the town (which was now part of a privately owned ranch) except for a few buildings and four burial mounds of the Plummer gang. [10] The site of the ghost town was featured as a stop on a self-guided tour promoted in a guide book to the state of Montana written by the Federal Writers' Project in 1939. [9]
The town began in 1912 or earlier, when the railroad was coming through and landed on the corner of W.D Dooley's property. Around 40 buildings went up at once, to become the business area. [3] It was one of the only towns not to move since the beginning of the railroad. [4] George Epler was the town cashier and the organizer of the Citizen ...
Limestone was a mining community situated along Lodgepole Creek and sat at the foot of Limestone Butte, for which the town was named. The town was small but busy. The post office operated at Limestone from 1910 to 1953. Today Limestone is a ghost town with a number of buildings left standing, including the former grocery store and post office.