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Gold mining in Montana began during the Civil War; gold placer deposits were discovered at Bannack in 1862. The resulting gold rush resulted in more placer discoveries, including those at Virginia City in 1863 and at Helena and Butte in 1864. [4] Gold from the Montana gold mines went to both sides of the conflict. [5]
Family patriarch Simon Lazarus (1808–1877) opened a one-room men's clothing store in downtown Columbus in 1851. By 1870, with improvements to the industry in the mass manufacture of men's uniforms for the Civil War, the family business expanded to include ready-made men's civilian clothing, and eventually, a complete line of merchandise. [2]
F. C. Nash & Co. – Nash's (Pasadena), at one time had 5 stores in downtown locations in neighboring small cities during the 1950s and 1960s, founded in 1889 as a grocery store, became a department store in 1921, branch stores were unable to compete with larger chains opening in malls built in the late 1960s and early 1970s and had to be ...
The Montana Bar was only about 2 to 3 acres (8,100 to 12,100 m 2) in extent, but it was one of the truly spectacular placer gold discoveries in terms of yield per unit area. The Bar was also unique in that the gold was not located on bedrock at the bottom of the gulch, but was in a shelf of gravel located up on the side of the gulch. [ 6 ]
People of Montana in the American Civil War (1 P) Pages in category "Montana in the American Civil War" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
The American Civil War begins with the Battle of Fort Sumter. March 4: Abraham Lincoln assumes office as the 16th President of the United States. March 2: Outgoing U.S. President James Buchanan signs the An Act to provide a temporary government for the Territory of Dakota, and to create the office of surveyor general therein.
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J.J. Roe and his partners entered the shipping business in 1864, creating a line to ship goods up the Missouri River to the frontier of the Montana Territory. [4] J.J. Roe & Co. also invested in the Diamond R Transportation Co., which established a system of ox trains to bring goods to more remote locations some hundreds of miles from the river.