Granite County History

  I recently celebrated my 84th birthday, so am starting my 85th year of life. Many times throughout the years I have written journals, but ...

                                                  Bus Hess at Frog Pond (photo courtesy Bob Hess) During the years the Bentz family worked t...

I have written numerous articles about John D. Kennedy, who was an under-sheriff, sheriff, State Representative and Senator in Granite Count...

 Lucy Coberly is known to have been in the New Chicago area prior to 1872. Dan Meschter wrote a column named Flint Chips in the Philipsburg ...

  Looking through my news article writings, I realized that somehow Major William Graham has been omitted. The October 31, 1878 Helena Weekl...

The September 23, 1910 Philipsburg Mail carried the following incident: “A serious cutting affray, in which W. S. Campbell, a well known old...

A prank recalled in the February 15, 1907 Mail is worth retelling, even though it may be considered politically incorrect in this day and ...

  Drawing of                                      Drawing of  Historical Granite County School built in 1894 The First graduating class, fro...

  Hugh O’Neil was a devote Catholic, as documented in many Montana history accounts. Hugh is credited with finding a place for Christmas Mas...

Anaconda Gulch is listed as the richest gulch by the Mt. Gov. DEQ site, but local knowledge and archive documentation show Sapphire Gulch, p...

  A constant issue in mining Sapphires was a water supply and references show in 1905 water problems were becoming severe as early as June 1...

   Lodge affiliation was a very important part of the early Deer Lodge/Granite County settlements, with the A.F. & A.M. Flint Creek Lodg...

  Recently on Face Book in the “I grew up in Philipsburg” group, Lee H. Graham posted a picture of a sweat shirt advertising the Philipsbu...

                                                                      Louis W. Shodair Lou Shodair, had an early Grocery store in Philipsbur...

                                                                   Maynard H. Hunt If you are looking up cemetery plots in the Philipsburg C...

  Hugh O’Neil married Margaret Pitt Meredith in 1858. She was born to Joseph Meredith from London, England and Marguarite Pitt Meredith from...

  The National Archives for Military Service Records is unable to find any record of service by Hugh O’Neil (12-17-2003). But records in the...

 A pioneer of Montana and Deer Lodge/Granite County was my children’s Great-great-great grandfather, Hugh O’Neil. Born in Loughgee County of...

   The Federal Census, lists Rory McRae as a farmer in 1880 and a miner in 1910. A news article in the December 20, 1887 Mail s tates “A tun...