Historic Valley

17 18 To Missoula 1 Historic Alta Ranger Station 16 17 13 LOLO 2 Daly Mansion

3 Historic Darby Ranger 7 Station and Museum Eastside Highway 4 Darby Pioneer Memorial Museum 10 12 FLORENCE

11 Main Street 5 Hamilton Southside Residential Historic District 15 6 Hamilton Commercial 269 Historic District 7 STEVENSVILLE 8 Ravalli County Museum

9 Rocky Mountain Laboratory Historic 14 District VICTOR 10 Historic St. Mary’s Mission

11 Stevensville Historical PINDESDALE 19 Museum 12 Stevensville Main Street CORVALLIS 13 Travelers Rest State Park

269 14 Victor Heritage Museum

15 Whaley Homestead HAMILTON 16 (Nee-Me-Poo) 2 National oad Historic Trail Auto Tour

Ricketts R 269 17 Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail Main Street Marcus Street Auto Tour 6 1805: us 93/ hwy 269 8 5 1806: us 93 18 9 Ice Age Floods National Golf Course Road Geologic Trail Auto Tour 3 19 Salish 4 DARBY Bitterroot 16 17 18 Homeland 1 To and the Big Hole Valley Historic 1 Historic Alta Ranger Station Walking Tour brochure, available at most Built in 1899, the Alta Ranger Station. located merchants, or find online at https://mhs/mt.gov/ on the West Fork of the , is the Portals/11/shpo/docs/Hamilton.pdf. oldest surviving Forest Service Ranger Station hamiltondowntownassociation.org in the . The silent little cabin speaks volumes about the early days of our national 7 forest and the people who lived and worked Fort Owen State Park here. Major John Owen arrived in the Bitterroot Valley in 1850 and established the fort and began trading with the Indians and the growing number of immigrants. Today 13 you can browse through the partially- Travelers Rest State Park Along the banks of Lolo Creek, visitors can reconstructed structures and enjoy explore the landscape used for centuries by interpretive signs and exhibits that detail the native peoples, visited twice by the Corps of fort’s history. Discovery, and home to a wondrous diversity 100 Stevensville Cutoff Road of plants and animals. The Park features a stateparks.mt.gov/fortowen nature trail and the Holt Museum and Visitors 2 Daly Mansion Center where families can enjoy hands-on exhibits about Lewis & Clark, Native American Located on 46 acres of lush landscape, the 8 Ravalli cultural history, and wildlife. Daly Mansion is the historic home of 19th County Century American industrialist . 6717 Highway 12 West, Lolo The exhibits convey the story of Daly and Museum 406 275-4253 | travelersrest.org Ravalli County his rise from working-class immigrant to Museum houses copper magnate, as well as local, regional, 14 Victor Heritage Museum historical collections and international history tied to his extended The Victor Heritage Museum is housed in and archives from all the old and fully restored Northern Pacific family. of Ravalli County and 251 Eastside Highway, North of Hamilton Railroad’s 1928 Victor Depot where you’ll find provides community interpretation of the history of the Victor area. 406 363-6004 | dalymansion.org events, exhibits, 125 Blake Street, Victor | 406 642-3997 and educational victorheritagemuseum.org programming throughout the year. Children’s activities 15 every Sunday. Whaley Homestead The Whaley Homestead at the Lee Metcalf 205 Bedford Hamilton | 406 363-3338 is on the National ravallimuseum.org Register of Historic Places because it exhibits unique qualities of vernacular frontier 9 Rocky Mountain Laboratory architecture associated with the beginnings Historic District and evolution of agricultural development. RML is a NIH research facility not open to 406 777-5552 3 Historic Darby Ranger the public. Informational displays can be fws.gov/refuge/lee_metcalf Station and Museum seen by stopping in the Visitor Center and Built by the CCC between 1937-39, this Forest viewing the wall display and video monitor of 16 Nez Perce (Nee-Me-Poo) Service Ranger Station has served many research projects. Many historic buildings are National Historic Trail community needs over its career. Faithfully visible from the street, and historic photos are Hwys 93 & 43 Lolo to Dillon restored, it now houses artifacts, maps, and available via the Memory Project fs.usda.gov/npnht photographs that tell the story of the rugged Exhibit, auto tour brochures, individuals who staffed this “isolated” ranger maps, and books available at station. the Ravalli County Museum. 712 North Main, Darby | 406 821-3913 17 Lewis & Clark 4 Darby Memorial National Historic Trail Pioneer Museum Hwys 93 & 43 Lolo to Dillon The Pioneer Memorial Museum is housed Exhibit, auto tour brochures, in a fine hand-hewn log homestead. Here maps, and books available you’ll find domestic artifacts, as well as work 903 South 4th Street, Hamilton at the Ravalli County implements of the early settlers, preserved in montanamemory.org Museum and Travelers impeccable condition. 10 Rest State Park. 101 East Tanner, Darby | 406 821-3753 Historic St. Mary’s Mission nps.gov/lecl | lewisandclark.org Founded in 1841 by Fr. DeSmet. Visit Chief Victor’s Cabin, Fr. Ravalli’s Cabin/Pharmacy, 5 Hamilton Southside and St. Mary’s Chapel. Tours available. 18 Ice Age Floods Residential Historic District 315 Charlos Street, Stevensville National Geologic Trail The architectural character of this pleasant 406 777-5734 | stmarysmission.org Missoula to south of Darby district was initially shaped by copper nps.gov/iafl king Marcus Daly in the 1890s. Several 11 Stevensville Interpretation, maps, and books available waves of development left an assortment of at the Ravalli County Museum. vernacular forms from high style Victorian Historical Museum to Romanesque to Craftsman and Colonial The Stevensville Historical Museum houses 19 Revival. Picturesque Revival and Cape Cod exhibits on the history of Stevensville, Salish Bitterroot Homeland cskt.org style cottages can be found interspersed in recognized as the first permanent Caucasian with the earlier styles, even a Moderne style While the Bitterroot Valley is a small slice of settlement in the state of Montana and the the overall aboriginal territory of the Salish, it here and there. See bottom of page for web traditional homeland of the Salish Indians. link to more ... stands at the heart of both the tribe’s history 517 Main Street, Stevensville and its creation stories. Even today, over a 406 777-1007 | stevensvillemuseum.com century after a forced removal, the Bitterroot 6 Hamilton Commercial remains a cherished homeland, a place Salish Historic District 12 Stevensville Main Street people return to often to pray, to reflect, and Downtown Hamilton invites you to take in our Visit Historic Stevensville, “Where Montana to reconnect with their ancestral homeland. charming architecture, before stepping into our Began” -- Est. 1841. Check out the Historic Exhibits and interpretation on the Salish up-to-the-minute shops. Just call us HIP-store- Plaques on our downtown buildings and people can be found in the Bitterroot at #8 ical! Also, look for the Historic Downtown experience Stevensville “Then and Now”. Ravalli County Museum, #10 Historic St. 406 777-3773 | mainstreetstevensville.com Mary’s Mission, and #13 Travelers Rest.

National Register: Information on National Register districts, sites and signs can be found at montanahistorywiki.pbworks.com. Search for “National Register Ravalli.”

Visit #8 Ravalli County Museum to have your National Parks Passport stamped for the three National Trails. Passports are available for purchase at the Museum. REV 4/16