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Zortman is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Phillips County, Montana, United States. Its population was 69 as of the 2010 census. [3] Zortman has a post office with ZIP code 59546. [4] [5] The community includes the Zortman Motel and the Buckhorn Store and Cabins. The Buckhorn Store is the only store in the community.
It was originally built as the Izaak Walton Hotel in 1939 by the Great Northern Railway as a soup kitchen and lodgings for railway workers. [2] The hotel was also originally envisioned as a potential official southern gateway to Glacier National Park , hence its size, but World War II intervened and that plan never materialized.
Edgerton County, Montana Territory created February 2, 1865, renamed Lewis and Clark County, Montana Territory March 1, 1868. Big Horn County, Montana Territory [12] created February 2, 1865, renamed Custer County, Montana Territory February 16, 1877.
An addition was placed on the hotel in 1948 to accommodate new residents during a local oil boom. [3] The hotel was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 28, 1980. [1] On September 21, 2023, the historic and beloved hotel, and arguably the last piece of standing original history in Circle, Montana, burned down.
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Wells Hotel, Garnet Ghost Town, Montana The town was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Garnet Historic District , a historic district , in 2010. The listing included 82 contributing buildings , 46 contributing structures , and 56 contributing sites , as well as four non-contributing buildings, on 134 acres (54 ha).
Hydraulic gold mining in Alder Gulch, 1871. Photo by William Henry Jackson. Placer mining in Alder Gulch, 1872. Alder Gulch (alternatively called Alder Creek) is a place in the Ruby River valley, in the U.S. state of Montana, where gold was discovered on May 26, 1863, by William Fairweather and a group of men including Barney Hughes, Thomas Cover, Henry Rodgers, Henry Edgar and Bill Sweeney ...
The Golden Sunlight mine is an open pit gold mine in Jefferson County, Montana, 5 mi (8 km) northeast of Whitehall and 24 mi (39 km) east of Butte, Montana The mine sits at an elevation of 6,000 ft (1,829 m) on the Bull Mountain range.