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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TNI_jim-bridger-mountain-man-historical_Bridger-MT.html
Jim Bridger arrived in Montana in 1822 as a member of a Rocky Mountain Fur Co. brigade. For years he had no more permanent home than a poker chip. He roamed the entire Rocky Mountain region and often came through this part of the country. A keen o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUJP_w-a-talmage-company-hardware_Red-Lodge-MT.html
A keen sense of the town's future prompted businessman William Talmage to move his hardware business away from the busy commercial center a few blocks south to this building in 1894. When other businesses began to move to the newly platted main st…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUJO_plunketts-hardware_Red-Lodge-MT.html
High transom windows that provide interior light for a mezzanine commercial display area are an interesting design feature of this well-constructed commercial building. The simple chain-patterned ornamentation of buff brick across the tall parapet…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUJL_picket-block_Red-Lodge-MT.html
Designed by Red Lodge carpenter and amateur architect Frank A. Sell and built by W. T. Pernham in 1902, this impressive brick commercial building was home to the Red Lodge Picket and, after 1918, the Picket-Journal, the primary news sources for th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUJK_neithammer-brothers-meat-market_Red-Lodge-MT.html
German-born Victor and Otto Neithammer first established their meat market on North Broadway in 1912, raising their own livestock to supply this and other local family-run stores. Because the Neithammers' employees represented many ethnic groups, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUJI_labor-temple_Red-Lodge-MT.html
Red Lodge Miner's Local No. 1771 had grown to more than a thousand members when this labor temple was built in 1909. The United Mine Workers of America organized nationally in 1896 and by 1898, Local No. 1771 had 200 members. The building is a tes…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUJG_the-iris-theater_Red-Lodge-MT.html
Originally intended as a meeting hall with storefront space, tenants Byton Down and Robert Pryde redesigned the building's ground floor before its completion for use as a theater. When the Iris opened in 1925, residents viewed it as welcome compet…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUJF_iarussi-building_Red-Lodge-MT.html
In the 1920s Italian shoemaker Ludovico Iarussi (later changed to Jarussi) owned this property containing his shop and several frame commercial buildings. In 1929 Iarussi razed the older shops and constructed the present building. Financially disa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUJC_hawkes-son-photography-studio_Red-Lodge-MT.html
Photographer Mark E. Hawkes and his son Charley built a photography studio at this location where much of Red Lodge's history was documented in pictures. Charley later struck out for Great Falls, and son Harry joined Mark. Hawkes & Son sold the bu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUJB_carbon-county-hospital-and-sanitarium_Red-Lodge-MT.html
When prominent local physician and surgeon Dr. Samuel Souders built this magnificent hospital in 1909, it was considered "state-of-the-art." Amenities included a central heating system, wide doorways and hallways, an elevator, and private telephon…
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