G h o s t T o w n s a n d H i s t o r y P a g e 3 I still stand strong as I watch over the town. These days, people come from all around. I think about the years and all I have seen. The members, the students, the teachers, the dreams. I hold my head high when they stop for a shoot. I hope I have shown them the past is not mute. Photo: Masonic Lodge/Schoolhouse– Bannack, Montana Photography and Poetry by Jolene Ewert-Hintz Coulson, Montana was once a little frontier town located on the north bank of the Yellowstone River approximately one mile east of the present day downtown Billings. Landowner John Alderson and a pioneer merchant and farmer named P.W. McAdow settled into the area along the river in 1877, giving the area its first residents and the men who built the town's early foundation. Marking the site where the long-gone town once hoped to thrive with the construction of the railroad but instead withered because of it, a plaque set in the park in 1982 by the Yellowstone Historical Society succinctly memorializes its five-year heyday, from 1877 to 1882. "Born by the River and killed by the Railroad, giving to Billings her best residents, to Boothill her residue, and to the Yellowstone her memories," the plaque reads. Photo: Main Street, Coulson, MT 1882, Courtesy of: The Western Heritage Center Please be sure to share this newsletter with a friend! Get your Ghost Towns of Montana Map! The size of the map is 11 X 17. It features 40 towns with a map on the front side and a little history and specific directions to the towns on the backside. The map is laminated. Visit the following link to order via paypal: https:// www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_sxclick&hosted_button_id=UL6TZCWUUTCWN Or, send check or money order in the amount of $12 to Ghost Towns and History of Montana, LLC, c/o Ghost Towns and History of Montana , P.O. Box 126, Warm Springs, MT 59756 (US orders only, please) Be sure to write MAP on your check. Thank you!
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