National Landmarks Upper Heritage Planning

Great Falls Portage 1 May 23, 1966 Period of Significance: 1800-1824 National Register Historic Places The intregrity of the historic 18-mile stretch varies from natural, undisturbed, remote areas, to those completely altered by modern development. It consists of two discontiguous sections of the trail which remain largely as Lewis and Clark 1 10th Street 2 Belt Jail would have known them. These areas encompass the lower 10th St. across the Missouri River Castner Street, Belt campsite, where (Corps of Discovery) boats were taken out of the water and preperations for the overland trek begun, and the upper campsite, where the expedition resumed exploration.

C.M. Russell House and Studio 2 December 21, 1965 Period of Significance: 1900-1926 3 Charlie and Nancy 4 J.C. Adams Stone Russell Honeymoon Barn The Russell House is a frame one and a half story structure, clapboarded and painted white, a modest house, without any Cottage NE of off U.S. 81 exterior ornamentation, but in good structural condition and very little changed since the Russells lived there. The house is 20 S. Russell Drive, Cascade Co. L-shaped, with the entrance on the southeast, sheltered by a roofed wooden porch, with plain columns, railing, and steps, 5 which stretches halfway across the front and wraps around the Monarch Depot 6 Neihart School corner and part way down the east side. Monarch 200 S. Main St, Neihart Fort Benton Historic District 3 Novermber 5, 1961 Period of Signifigance: 1860-1890

Wagon roads extended from Fort Benton in several directions: westward over the to ; northwest 7 Robert Vaughn 8 St. Peter’s Mission over the Whoop-Up Trail to Fort Macleod; southwest over wagon roads to the goldfields at Helena, Virginia City, Homestead Church and Bannack; and east over the Montana-Minneapolis road. In Vaughn Cemetary Rd. & West of Cascade the era before railroads spanned the northern tier of the nation, Cascade Co Rd. the steamboat link moved emigrants, freight, goldseekers, and source: Perry Nielson military troops from the East to distant frontier outposts. May, 28 1982 9 Arvon Block 10 Chicago, Milwalkee, 114-116 1st Ave. S, Great Falls and St Paul National Register Historic Districts Passenger Depot River Drive N, Great Falls 1 Belt Commercial Historic District 11 12 Great Falls December 23, 2004 Great Falls Central High School High School

1400 1st Ave. N, Great Falls 1900 2nd Ave. S, Great Falls

2 Historic District 13 14 and Cemetery Union Bethel Ursuline Academy African Methodist 2300 Central Ave., Great Falls January 11, 1985 Episcopal Church 916 5th Ave. S, Great Falls 3 Great Falls Central Business Historic District Natural/Cultural Landscapes August 19, 2004

1 First People’s Buffalo 2 4 DraftJump State Park State Park Great Falls Northside Residential Historic District 342 Ulm -Vaughn Rd., Ulm 4803 Giant Springs Rd., Great Falls April 1, 1991

3 Sluice Boxes 4 Tower Rock 5 Great Falls Railroad Historic District State Park State Park

Febuary 19, 1993 38 Evans Riceville Rd., Belt 2325 Old US Highway 91, Cascade

6 Great Falls West Bank Industrial Heritage Historic District 1 2A August 30, 2010 Anaconda / Company Black Eagle Falls “Big Stack” 1921 7 21 Megawatts North Montana State Fairground demolished, North River Rd Historic District

January 13, 1989 2B Rainbow Dam/ 2C Cochrane Dam Rainbow Falls 1958 64 Megawatts 1910 8 Old U.S. Highway 91 36 Megawatts (original) Historic District incl. 2D Ryan Dam/ 2E Morony Dam August 27, 2013 The Great Falls 1930 48 Megawatts photo credit: National Register 1915 60 Megawatts