Deer Lodge, Montana
Deer Lodge, Montana Deer Lodge MT - Location of Deer Lodge, Montana Location of Deer Lodge, Montana Deer Lodge, Montana is positioned in the US Deer Lodge, Montana - Deer Lodge, Montana Deer Lodge is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Powell County, Montana, United States. The populace was 3,111 at the 2010 census.
The town/city is perhaps best known as the home of the Montana State Prison, a primary small-town employer.
The Montana State Hospital in Warm Springs, and former state tuberculosis sanitarium is in close-by Galen are the result of the power the part of the state held over Montana at statehood due to the copper and mineral richness in that area. Deer Lodge was also once an meaningful barns town, serving as a division command posts for the Chicago, Milwaukee, St.
The current Montana State Prison is situated in a ground 3.5 miles (5.6 km) west of town.
The former prison site, at the south end of Deer Lodge's Main Street, is now the Old Prison Museum.
Powell County Courthouse, Deer Lodge Deer Lodge is also the locale of Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site, dedicated to the interpretation of the frontier cattle ranching era.
This site was the home of Conrad Kohrs, one of the famous "Cattle Kings" of Montana whose territory holdings once stretched over a million acres (4,000 km ) of Montana, Wyoming, and Alberta, Canada.
The Grant-Kohrs ranch was assembled in 1862 by Johnny Grant, a Scottish/French/Metis fur-trader and trapper who encouraged his citizens to settle in Deer Lodge because of its pleasant climate and large areas of bunch grass prairie, ideal for raising cattle and horses.
The city's name derives from a geological formation known as Warm Springs Mound which contained natural saline that made for a natural salt lick for the small-town deer population, the protected valley in which Deer Lodge is positioned was where most of the small-town wildlife would winter as the temperatures lowered in the high country. Deer Lodge was the site of the College of Montana, the first institution of higher learning in the state.
1.4 State of Montana, Powell County 1.6 Montana State Prison Extant mentions of the Deer Lodge Valley before to 1860 are found as occasional remarks in records written for other purposes. Consistent record-keeping begins with the writings of Granville Stuart and the rest in the early 1860s. 1860 marks the beginning of permanent occupation of both the valley and the future site of the town/city of Deer Lodge by European-Americans. Before 1860, the Deer Lodge Valley was not the territory of any American Indian group. Gatherings were held there, including horse competitions. American Indian groups from the west, Flatheads, Pend d'Oreilles et al.
The first documented visit to this region by European-American explorers occurred in 1805-1806, when Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery expedition passed by the Deer Lodge Valley without entering it. Evidence of earlier incursion, probably by Spaniards, was noted by miners amid the 1880s, at Race Track Lake on the west side of the Deer Lodge Valley. The Clark Fork river was called the Arrow Stone river in the 1830s. By the 1850s it was called the Deer Lodge Creek/Hellgate River. Catholic Father Pierre-Jean De Smet brought the first wagons known to have passed through the valley, in 1841. In 1846, the Deer Lodge Valley became part of the United States and Oregon Territory with the signing of the Oregon Treaty by the U.
European-American settlement of the valley attained momentum amid the 1850s and 60's, with the major site being at present-day Deer Lodge.
John Mullan oversaw assembly of the Mullan Road, which connected Walla Walla, Washington Territory with Fort Benton, then in Dakota Territory. The Mullan Road passed through the north end of the Deer Lodge Valley.
John Francis (Johnny) Grant assembled the first permanent structures in the valley in 1859-60, at Grantsville near present-day Garrison. Grant had begun grazing cattle and horse herds in the north valley a several years previously and "wintered over" there in 1857-58. In 1860, feeling as he said "lonely", he returned to Fort Hall for summer trading and induced a several fellow trader/trappers and their families to return to the valley with him at the end of the season. Instead of locating at Grantsville, his friends chose to build at the site of present-day Deer Lodge, where a several Mexican trapper/traders and their Metis families had already established the cyclic settlement of Spanish Fork. While Johnny Grant had been at Fort Hall, a several citizens had come from Fort Union down the Mullan Road route and begun building homes at Grantsville. In 1861, the Stuart brothers and Reese Anderson established American Fork near present-day Gold Creek. Also in that year Johnny Grant moved his large family to his newly-built home at Deer Lodge, at the present-day site of Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site. During the next two years, placer gold discoveries at Grasshopper Creek, Alder Gulch and other locations to the south caused a populace decline in the valley, including the abandoning of Grantsville and American Fork. Beginning in 1864 with gold strikes to the north, Deer Lodge City interval quickly as a base for supplies to mines in the encircling mountain peaks. By 1861-2, Spanish Fork was more often referred to as Cottonwood. In 1862, a Deer Lodge Town Committee was established to lay out the town site, to be called La - Barge City, after Missouri River steamboat Captain Joseph La - Barge whose firm, La - Barge, Harkness & Company, had proposed to start a company in Cottonwood. Creation of Idaho Territory in 1863 induced a name change to Idaho City. And with the 1864 designation of Montana Territory, Deer Lodge City became the choice.
Montana's first territorial council defined most of the boundaries of Deer Lodge County, establishing the governmental center of county at the placer quarrying camp of Silver Bow City, near Butte.
In September 1865, county voters transferred the seat to Deer Lodge City. During the first half of the 1860s, Granville Stuart described valley civil life as including many gay dances and parties, which was the way of the Metis. By 1866, Johnny Grant and many of his fellow Metis had turn into disenchanted with their increasingly various neighbors from "the States". In that year, Grant sold most of his Deer Lodge Valley holdings to Conrad Kohrs and in 1867 led a mass exodus of Metis families to the Red River nation of Manitoba, Canada. In 1869, the Territorial Prison was positioned at Deer Lodge. Also that year, the town site plat for Deer Lodge City was recorded. In 1878, Montana Collegiate Institute was established at Deer Lodge City.
Attorney Horace Clagett, of the Deer Lodge firm Clagett and Dixon, was propel U.S.
Clagett and Dixon platted the first addition to Deer Lodge City, in 1872. Perhaps its most prominent building was the former St.
An early Morrisite arrival at Deer Lodge City was Morrisite War survivor William W.
After an initial reconstructionof depression, Davies began to receive what he regarded as revelations and instructions from Jesus. In the Deer Lodge City Morrisite community, Davies came to be highly esteemed, so that the Prophet Cainan attempted in 1866 to appoint Davies to be his (Cainan's) First Councilor.
In early 1991, a several members of a Baha'i splinter sect then living in Deer Lodge convinced Mayor Dick Labbe to proclaim August 9 to be a commemorative celebration day in memory of the August 9, 1879 dedication of The Lord's House, the Morrisite meeting home near Dempsey Creek, south of Deer Lodge. Planning encompassed a improve picnic for August 9, 1991.
Later, members of the sect presented their proposal to the Deer Lodge town/city council.
State of Montana, Powell County Deer Lodge City was incorporated in 1888, with a mayor and aldermen as officers.
Montana accomplished statehood in 1889 and a battle ensued between Helena and Anaconda over the locale of the capitol in which Helena finally triumphed in 1894. In 1896, Anaconda took the Deer Lodge County seat away from Deer Lodge.
This began a battle which culminated in the creation of Powell County in 1901, with its governmental center of county at Deer Lodge. Mayoral portrait of Frank Conley, mayor of Deer Lodge, Montana (with breaks) from 1892 until 1928 After statehood, the State of Montana let a contract to run Montana State Prison, which was awarded to Frank Conley and Thomas Mc - Tague. They held the contract until 1908.
In that year, the State took over running Montana State Prison, appointing Frank Conley as warden. Conley remained in that capacity until 1921, when Governor Joseph M.
This resulted in the Mac - Donald Report, which would be used as the basis for a civil lawsuit by the State of Montana against Conley. The year following, Montana Attorney General Wellington Rankin sued Conley for misuse of state funds and materials, in the case State of Montana vs Frank Conley The case took three months to try and resulted in the State of Montana being ordered to reimburse Conley. Deer Lodge City jubilated with a victory party. Frank Conley was propel the fifth (1892 93), seventh (1895-1903) and tenth (1907-1928) mayor of Deer Lodge City. When he resigned for the last time, an article in the Billings Gazette called him 'the longest serving mayor in American history'.
Mayor Conley was instrumental in bringing the division command posts and shops of the Milwaukee Road to Deer Lodge City in 1910. Over the next decade, he presided over upbuilding the town's transit framework to accommodate the quickly expanding population. He was also responsible for the building of the City Hall. Hayes and George Rock killed guard John Robinson and seriously wounded Warden Conley in an attempted prison breakout. In 1959, a prolonged brawl occurred at the prison, led by Jerry Miles and Lee Smart, which resulted in the slaying of Deputy Warden Ted Rothe and the eventual suicides of Miles and Smart. All inmates were moved in 1977-79 to a new state prison facility outside of Deer Lodge.
The town of Deer Lodge employs the Powell County Museum & Arts Foundation to manage the old facility as a exhibition.
In 1883, Daly established his smelter facilities at newly platted Anaconda, Montana. Anaconda immediately became Deer Lodge County's primary population center and employer.
Flooding on Silver Bow Creek and Warm Springs Creek, especially in the great valley flood of 1908, spread toxic wastes from Butte through Deer Lodge City, to the Milltown Dam, just east of Missoula. As a result of legal actions begun in 1983 and culminating in 2008, the course of the Clark Fork River from Anaconda to the Milltown Dam was declared to be a Superfund cleanup site.
Interstate 90 bypassed Deer Lodge in 1960.
Limited passenger service between Minneapolis and Deer Lodge continued until 1964, at which time all Milwaukee Road passenger service to Deer Lodge ended. Deer Lodge in 1869 Deer Lodge is positioned at 46 23 46 N 112 43 59 W (46.396183, -112.732922). According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Deer Lodge has a humid continental climate, abbreviated "Dfb" on climate maps. As of the census of 2010, the town/city of Deer Lodge had lost about one third of its peak census populace of 1960. Powell County continued its century-long trend of adding about 10 citizens per year to its populace KBCK (1400 AM) and KQRV (96.9 FM) are two small-town airways broadcasts licensed in Deer Lodge.
The United States Postal Service operates the Deer Lodge Post Office. The Montana Department of Corrections operates the current Montana State Prison facility in a close-by unincorporated region in Powell County, near Deer Lodge. Education in Powell County is served by Powell County High School positioned in Deer Lodge.
Kohrs Memorial Library, assembled in Deer Lodge in 1902, is "the only dedicated enhance library in Powell County." The Kohrs library is modeled after the Carnegie Libraries.
Nick Bielenberg, cattle rancher, half-brother of Conrad Kohrs, brother of John Bielenberg, second mayor of Deer Lodge, Montana, prominent Montana businessman, prestige in 'smoke farmer' lawsuit against Anaconda Copper Company William Andrews Clark, United States Senator from Montana - 1901-07, Copper King at Butte, Montana, became one of America's richest citizens , partner in Donnell, Clark and Larabie Bank at Deer Lodge, Montana in 1870's, father of Huguette Clark Frank Conley, warden of Montana State Prison 1890-1921, mayor of Deer Lodge, Montana 1892-93, 1895-1903, 1907-1928, chairman of Montana Highway Commission 1919-1921, Provost Marshall of Butte, Montana in 1914, defendant in State of Montana vs Frank Conley in 1922 Father Pierre-Jean De Smet, first wagons known to have traversed Deer Lodge Valley in 1841, established St.
Mary's Mission in the Bitterroot Valley, performed American Indian baptisms at Warm Springs thermal mound in Deer Lodge Valley in 1840's, drew early maps including the Deer Lodge Valley Representative from State of Montana in 1891-3, law partner of William H.
John Francis Grant, assembled first permanent home in Deer Lodge Valley, co-founder of Deer Lodge, Montana, livestock trader on Emigrant Trail near Fort Hall, cattle rancher, prestige of 1867 exodus from Deer Lodge Valley to the Red River nation of Manitoba, Canada, participant in first Riel Rebellion Phil Jackson, NBA player, coach, 11-time NBA champion and President of the New York Knicks; born in Deer Lodge Conrad Kohrs, cattle rancher, co-founder of Deer Lodge, "Montana's Cattle King", brother of Henry Kohrs (founder of Kohrs Packing Co.
Mills, pioneer Montana newspaperman, publisher of the Montana Post at Virginia City, Montana from 1866 until 1869 and The New Northwest at Deer Lodge City from 1869 until 1897, "The Father of Montana Journalism", Secretary of the Territory of Montana 1877-82 under President Hayes Jean Parker, actress, known for such films as Little Women, The Navy Way and The Gunfighter; born Lois Mae Green in Deer Lodge Granville Stuart, co-founder of Deer Lodge, Montana, co-discoverer of gold at Gold Creek, Montana, co-owner of DHS Ranch, prestige of vigilante group Stuart's Stranglers in 1880's, author of "Forty Years on the Frontier", "Mr.
Deer Lodge has been a recording locale for a number of movies including: Cowen and Jim Marrs, a number of Deer Lodge inhabitants explain about their experiences with extraterrestrial beings and the rumours encircling these affairs.
Eastern and Montana were first joined as part of Idaho Territory Pizanthia, also called "the greaser", was executed at Virginia City in 1864 by vigilantes for killing George Copely and wounding Smith Ball. These encompassed Joe Prudhomme and "quite a number of families" associated with the American Fur Company In 1894, the name 'Deer Lodge City' was changed to 'Deer Lodge'. On March 8, 1901, an act of the state council changed the names of Deer Lodge County to Daly County and Powell County to Deer Lodge County. On April 8, 1901, this action was nullified by the Montana Supreme Court, reverting the two counties to their previous names Many resolutions and ordinances effecting upgrades to transit framework of Deer Lodge.
The populace of Deer Lodge peaked above 5000 in about 1916 or 1917.
By the 1920 census, effects of the prolonged drought had caused a general populace decline in Montana, including at Deer Lodge.
Both ordinances authorized issuance of city-backed bonds for City Hall assembly funding.
As of 2016, fish are reported to be in the Deer Lodge River and white-tailed deer are incessantly seen in the valley.
The previous primary highway through the Deer Lodge Valley, US 10, ran down Main Street in Deer Lodge.
Both US 10 and the Milwaukee Road contributed patrons for Deer Lodge businesses.
Also, I90 made it easier for citizens in the Deer Lodge region to get to Butte and Missoula to do business.
A number of smelter employees lived in Deer Lodge.
The Milwaukee Road was perhaps the biggest employer in Deer Lodge.
Within Powell County in the 2010 census, Deer Lodge was the only incorporated town with more than 250 citizens .
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