P a g e 8 G h o s t T o w n s a n d H i s t o r y o f M o n t a n a N e w s l e t t e r Keystone, Montana- Keystone was actually the third name for this mining town. It was first called O'Rourke after miner Phillip O'Rourke who with the help of a couple friends found veins of silver and lead in the area in 1887. The name was changed to Carter in 1890 to honor Thomas Carter, a U.S. Senator who helped to establish a post office in the town. The town boasted a few hundred residents until the silver crash of 1893 which hit the town hard. The town saw a comeback a few years later and was known as Keystone, named after a local mine. By 1925, silver prices fell again and the townspeople moved on. The Hotel Vendome in Carter, Montana (later Keystone, Montana) Excerpt from The Daily Miissoulian Newspaper, October 1, 1914, Accessed via: https:// chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ Photo by Jolene Ewert-Hintz My/Donor Information: SUBSCRIBE TO THE GHOST TOWNS AND HISTORY OF MONTANA NEWSLETTER! Renewal? Y/N Send a Gift to: NAME____________________________________ NAME___________________________________ ADDRESS__________________________________ ADDRESS_________________________________ CITY______________________________________ CITY_____________________________________ STATE__________________ZIP________________STATE_________________ ZIP________________ Yearly subscriptions are $19.95 (published monthly). Please make checks payable to Ghost Towns & History of MT, LLC and send with this clipping to P.O. Box 932 Anaconda, MT 59711
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