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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B6X_gideon-bibles_Superior-MT.html
This marker commemorates the placement of the first 25 Bibles in November 1908 by the Gideons in the Superior Hotel, Superior (formerly Iron Mountain), Montana then located on this spot.
From that small beginning, The Gideons International has p…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUN5_the-wickedest-city_Saltese-MT.html
Buried beneath busy Interstate 90 in the valley below are the bones of what the Chicago Tribune in 1909 named "the wickedest city in America".
This "den of iniquity" sprouted up when the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad began building t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUN3_st-paul-pass-tunnel_Saltese-MT.html
The Milwaukee Road faced the daunting task of drilling a tunnel 23 feet high, 16 feet wide and 1.7 miles long into Idaho.
It was a damp, dark, dirty dig. After the approaches were prepared in 1906, and a faltering start in 1907, work began in e…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUN2_the-trail-follows-the-trains_Saltese-MT.html
?and Historians Trace the History along the Trail.
When the Milwaukee Road abandoned its route over the Bitterroot Mountains, salvage companies stripped the line of all the rails, ties, signals, posts and everything else of value. The small fra…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUN1_the-route-of-the-hiawatha_Saltese-MT.html
The Last Transcontinental Railroad
The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway's Pacific Extension survived for 71 colorful years. Racing silk trains sped along the route, and long, rumbling troop trains carried men and materiel through four wa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUMX_life-along-the-line_Saltese-MT.html
Just getting groceries up here could be a challenge
Deep winter snow sometimes made getting to school, going to the doctor, or buying food an adventure.
Families living at the top of the Bitterroot Mountains, here at East Portal and Roland, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUMV_substation-13_Saltese-MT.html
Once a critical part of the longest electrified railroad in the world, the broken concrete foundation to your left is all that remains of the two-story, brick East Portal Substation.
Essentially a gigantic electric vault, East Portal was the la…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUM2_an-unlikely-safe-haven_Saltese-MT.html
"Fires of yesterday and last night have swept practically all the country from Avery to St. Regis. Nothing could have lived in the mountains last evening except for the tunnels." - E. J. Pearson, Chief Engineer, Puget Sound Railroad
Fleeing fro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUM1_douse-the-flames-and-climb-aboard_Saltese-MT.html
"The whole twenty-five miles of railroad?between Avery and the Taft Tunnel was swept by a consuming blast of fire, so hot that pick handles lying in the open beside the track were utterly consumed." - Elers Koch, Forest Supervisor
With fires ra…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUM0_building-from-the-ashes_Saltese-MT.html
"All that remained was to salvage what material that could be salvaged from the disaster, and reorganize for a new start." - Clarence B. Swim, Assistant Forester
As the railroad operated rescue trains, Missoula residents met the refugees at the…