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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27CH_robbers-roost_Sheridan-MT.html
Pete Daly built a log roadhouse at this site in 1863. Unlike most roadhouses of the time, which provided meals, companionship and a place to stay for weary travelers, Daly's was allegedly a hangout for Montana's most notorious criminal gang - the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27BX_garnets-vigilantes-and-gold-dredges_Sheridan-MT.html
The Ruby River was called the Passamari by the Shoshoni Indians and the Stinking Water by the miners in the early 1860's. Later, it was mistakenly renamed the Ruby, although the gems found along its length were actually garnets. The road t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27BT_adobetown_Sheridan-MT.html
Alder Gulch at peak population numbered ten thousand souls and the colorful mining camps that enjoyed the limelight were so numerous that contemporaries named it the Fourteen-mile City. Adobetown was one of the many settlements that lined the gu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27BS_gold-in-alder-gulch_Sheridan-MT.html
Alder Gulch, located between Virginia City and Alder, is one of the most significant placer mining districts in the U.S., having produced over 2.5 million troy ounces of gold between 1863, and 1889. In total, miners recovered over $40 billion (tod…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXG7_the-mount-vernon-dredge_Sheridan-MT.html
In its first five years, Alder Gulch produced between 30 and 60 million in gold. By 1874 about 35,000 people lived in the gulch. Times ran out but the gold never did. You can still find it here in the hills and streams of Alder Gulch.There were 5 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXG6_gallows-barn_Sheridan-MT.html
Built in the 1890's for the White Sulfur Springs Sheriff's Department. In the year 1917 this barn had a legal gallows installed for the execution of three men. These men robbed a train south of White Sulfur Springs and murdered a trainman on Janua…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXG5_montanas-oldest-standing-school_Sheridan-MT.html
This little log building is Montana's Oldest Standing Public School, built in 1867 in Twin Bridges, Montana, about 30 miles north of here. It served Twin Bridges until 1873, when the Masons built a two-story building with the first floor for use a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXG4_finney-house_Sheridan-MT.html
Construction layers of this original homestead tell much of Nevada City's ?boom and bust' history. In 1864, miner Frank Finney and his bride, Mary, moved into a cabin on this property that had been constructed the previous year. The cabin forms th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXG3_site-of-the-trial-and-hanging-of-george-ives_Sheridan-MT.html
Dec. 21, 1863Most extraordinary trial in history.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXG2_madison-county-pioneers_Sheridan-MT.html
The gold rush to Alder Creek in 1863 spurred settlement of the Madison Valley, and among the first families to settle here were the Jeffers, the Switzers (whose home is preserved here in Nevada City) and the Careys. Irish-born Nick Carey walked to…
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