Carbon County Historical Society & Museum

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DescriptionThe mission of the Carbon County Historical Society and Museum is to preserve, communicate, and educate the population on the treasured history of Carbon County, Montana and its surrounding areas.

Carbon County Historical Society & Museum was first established in 1959 by Alice Greenough to house the collection of her world-renowned rodeo family. The Carbon County Historical Society was formed in 1974 and took over the museum facility in 1980. In 1990, the three-story Labor Temple building was gifted to the Carbon County Historical Society by an anonymous donor. The Labor Temple was built in 1909, entirely by the Red Lodge Miners Local No. 1771, and put on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The historical society reopened the museum's doors with a newly remodeled basement and first floor in 1999.

The museum is the home to the Greenough and Linderman rodeo collections, the Waples family gun and projectile point collection, an immersive coal and hard rock mine exhibit, the Carbon County archives, and much more. The staff assists with family genealogy and historic research. The gift shop has a large variety of Carbon County, Montana and Old West historical books and gifts.Home PageCarbon County Historical Society & MuseumDigital CollectionCarbon County Photographs

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"The Old Bus" Coming From Train, Spofford Hotel, 1896

Austrian Miner Party at Wild Bill's

Branding Chute and Squeezer, Delivering the Last Bunch to Holt and Woodcock of Miles City, August 9, 1895

Buffalo Bill's Party, November 19, 1896

Camp on Clarks Fork, August 17-September 1, 1896

Crow Indians, Circa 1896

Crow Indians, January 12, 1897

Dilworth Cattle Co. Dinner on the Roundup, August 9, 1895

Dilworth Cattle Co. Ranch, 1895

Dilworth Cattle Co. Ranch, Bent Bar, 1895

Dilworth Cattle Co. Ranch, Branding Colts, 1895

Dilworth Cattle Co. Ranch, Horses in Corrals, 1895

Down in the Rocky Fork Mine, December 5, 1896

Dr. Fox's Residence, September 23, 1897

East Side Mine

George Town and 16-Horse Team Hauling Boiler to the Gold Dredges on Clarks Fork, 1895

Improvement Co. Building, 1896

Jim Lobdell at West Side Mine

Liver Eating Johnson, 1893

Lower Armstrong Cabin on East Rosebud, Circa 1896

Miners in Front of Mine Scale Office

Miners in Mine Shaft

Miners with Horses in Mine Shaft

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