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According to Alan Chenery Jr., Christopher's nephew, the Chenery brothers decided that the horses from Meadow Stable would wear the blue and white colors of their college fraternity, Phi Delta Theta. [6] Chenery bought "four or five horses for a moderate price" in 1936, and soon afterward "a good 16-year-old horse named Whiskaway for $115."
Although Bannack was the first territorial capital, the territorial legislature moved the capital to Virginia City on February 7, 1865. [11] It remained the capital until April 19, 1875, when it moved to Helena. [12] Thomas Dimsdale began publication of Montana's first newspaper, the Montana Post, in Virginia City on August 27, 1864. [13]
The landmark district encompasses an area of about 20,000 acres (81 km2), including the entire city limits of Virginia City and a significant portion of Alder Gulch where mining operations took place. Many of the city's buildings were built before the turn of the 20th century, and a significant number date to its heyday in the 1860s.
Madison County is a county in the U.S. state of Montana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 8,623. [2] Its county seat is Virginia City. [3] The county was founded in 1865; [4] at the time it was part of the Montana Territory.
February 7 – Virginia City, Montana becomes the second capital of Montana Territory [38] March 24 – Congress authorizes the Blackfoot Treaty of 1865 (signed in October at Fort Benton, Montana ) by which the Blackfoot tribes ceded all lands south of the Missouri and Teton rivers and west of the Milk river to the Rocky Mountains to the U.S ...
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 ...
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Chenery was born in Richmond, son of Christopher Chenery, a businessman and horseman.He was educated in Virginia, Pelham Manor, New York and at the University of Arizona (BSc Mathematics, 1939), the University of Oklahoma (BSc Engineering, 1941), and California Institute of Technology (MSc Engineering, 1943).