(Vigilante Barn)
Virginia City's first stone building, constructed during the summer of 1863, originally housed three stores on the ground floor and a meeting hall upstairs. Popular legend has long designated this as the meeting place of the Vigilantes, who prosecuted and hung two dozen outlaw road agents in Virginia City between 1863 and 1864. Grocer William Kiskadden, the original occupant, married the former Mrs. Jack Slade after Slade was hung by the Vigilantes. Blacksmith George Thexton remodeled the building as a livery in the early 1870s, removing one of the two original center doors to enlarge the entrance and reusing it on the hay loft above.This property contributes to the Virginia City Historic District · Listed in the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior · In cooperation with the Montana Historical Society| HM Number | HMXDP |
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| Placed By | Montana Historical Society |
| Marker Condition | No reports yet |
| Date Added | Friday, September 19th, 2014 at 3:01pm PDT -07:00 |
| UTM (WGS84 Datum) | 12T E 425722 N 5015976 |
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| Decimal Degrees | 45.29336667, -111.94726667 |
| Degrees and Decimal Minutes | N 45° 17.602', W 111° 56.836' |
| Degrees, Minutes and Seconds | 45° 17' 36.12" N, 111° 56' 50.16" W |
| Driving Directions | Google Maps |
| Area Code(s) | 406 |
| Closest Postal Address | At or near 205 Wallace St, Ennis MT 59729, US |
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