“Fire” was a cry dreaded by any Westerner, and early Fort Benton was no exception. Flimsy wooden buildings, haystacks, kerosene lamps, and primitive stoves created major fire hazards. When the city government was organized in…

Fort Benton is recognized as a National Historic Landmark, because of the importance it played as the head of navigation on the Missouri River and the opening of the northwest and western Canada. Established in…

“Fire” was a cry dreaded by any Westerner, and early Fort Benton was no exception. Flimsy wooden buildings, haystacks, kerosene lamps, and primitive stoves created major fire hazards. When the city government was organized in…

Fort Benton is recognized as a National Historic Landmark, because of the importance it played as the head of navigation on the Missouri River and the opening of the northwest and western Canada. Established in…

Experience the fur and buffalo robe trade at Historic Old Fort Benton. Here the Blackfeet and other tribes traded buffalo robes and other furs for trade goods such as beads, gun, blanket, knives, cookware and…

Homestead Village, located at the Montana Agricultural Center complex, offers the visitor the opportunity to explore a typical Northern Plains rural community. Many of the buildings located in Homestead Village are from abandoned homestead era…

The State of Montana’s Museum of Agriculture, the Museum of the Northern Great Plains, documents the last one hundred years of life on the vast Montana plains. The story of the homesteader is told. Their…

First bridge to span the Missouri River in Montana. The first span was a swing span to allow passage of steamboat. First bridge to span the Missouri River in Montana. The first span was a…

The Smithsonian Hornaday Bison are located in the Strand Gallery at Montana’s Museum of the Northern Great Plains and the Montana Agricultural Center complex. The Smithsonian Hornaday group were collected in 1886 by William T.…

The heroic sized statue by renowned western artist Bob Scriver, depicts Lewis, Clark and Sacagawea with her infant son. The memorial commemorates the nine days the Corps of Discovery camped at the confluence of the…

Through the 1870’s and 1880’s, the I.G. Baker Company was Montana’s largest mercantile enterprise. When the company began, in 1865-1866, Baker and his brother had only a log store along the levee. When Baker’s wife…