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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IU1_rattler-gulch-limestone-cliffs-acec_Drummond-MT.html
The limestone feature (outcrop), located across the road, known as the Madison Limestone Formation, was deposited about 350 million years ago in a shallow sea. It was uplifted about 65 million years ago during the Laramide Orogeny (when the Rocky …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CU0_madison-limestone-and-the-garnet-mountains_Drummond-MT.html
About 350 million years ago, much of Montana was submerged under a shallow sea. Billions of tiny marine creatures thrived in the water and when they died their bodies settled into the muck on the sea bed. After hundreds of millions of years of acc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXHM_mill-a-and-b_Philipsburg-MT.html
The Granite Mountain Mining Company constructed two mills adjoining the mining operation know[n] as the Ruby Shaft. These structures, Mill A and Mill B, housed a total of 70 stamp mills which processed ore. Stamp mills were used to crush the ore s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXHK_granite-mountain-mining-company-office_Philipsburg-MT.html
This two-story building, constructed in about 1885, was one of the first structures in Granite, and housed the brick vault that is seen here. The mining office handled the payroll for the men who worked at the Ruby Shaft and the two mills on the h…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXHJ_miners-union-hall_Philipsburg-MT.html
Built in 1890 at a cost of $23,000, this three-story building was once the social center of a bustling mining town. The first floor was constructed of native granite. The cast iron front held 6 large windows and small colored glass panes. The uppe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXFK_bi-metallic-aerial-tramway_Philipsburg-MT.html
The tramway was constructed in 1889 to carry ore from the Blaine Shaft in Granite to the Bi-Metallic Mill in Kirkville, near Philipsburg. The Bi-Metallic aerial tramway was 9750 feet long with a vertical drop of 1225 feet, and was the longest aeri…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXFI_superintendents-house_Philipsburg-MT.html
By 1899, this house stood at the head of Magnolia Avenue, or "Silk Stocking Row," where the elite of Granite lived. The first floor housed the living quarters for the Superintendent of the Granite Mountain Mining Co. The second floor may have orig…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXFH_ruby-shaft_Philipsburg-MT.html
Most of the ore that brought tremendous riches and fame to Granite was brought out of the Ruby Shaft, operated by the Granite Mountain Mining Company. Several tunnels outside the Ruby Shaft were also important in producing the silver (and some gol…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXFG_granite-ghost-town_Philipsburg-MT.html
Granite Mtn. Mine located July 6, 1875 and operated by the Granite Mtn. Company.A rich silver bonanza shoot was discovered in Nov. 1882. The mine closed in 1893 and reopened again in 1911 and 1912 and operated for a brief time.Deerlodge National F…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXBD_mcdonald-opera-house_Philipsburg-MT.html
Prominent businessman Angus A. McDonald constructed this two-story masonry theater in 1891. A metal-covered stage loft rises above the roof as evidence of the structures historic function. Beneath the south end were dressing rooms for the travelin…