Ghost Towns and History March 29, 2020 Ghost Towns and History of Montana Newsletter G L E N D A L E , M O N T A N A Crumbling walls from a former company office, a now smokeless stack, an old wooden storefront and some charcoal kilns resting on nearby Canyon Creek are the bits and pieces left to mark the once thriving camp of Glendale. A 10-ton lead smelter was built here in 1875 following the first lode discovery a few years prior by William Spur and then rediscovered by James Bryant. Local legend says the town site of Glendale could just have easily been named Clifton. Both names were written on a wooden chip, it was thrown into the air and when it landed with Glendale face up, lady luck had decided on the name Glendale. Or, was that just a story passed down through the years? Glendale would grow to a population of 2,000. Photo by Jolene Ewert-Hintz From The Dillon Tribune Newspaper, April 5, 1912 Accessed at montananewspapers.org Photo by Jolene Ewert-Hintz The Hecla Mining
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