If you were to ask someone at random how to get to the corner of Cedar and Stevens streets, you’d probably get a blank stare or a bit of head-scratching depending on the vintage of the guy you asked. If he’d been around here a dozen years or so ago, Read More
Missoula Street Names Recall Events Of History and Ancient City Feuds By E. S. “Stan” Healy Back in the good old days when Missoula’s streets were lined with hitching posts instead of parking meters there trod the wooden sidewalks a number of individuals who have left their hallmarks on the Read More
More on Missoula’s Streets What’s In a name? By Kathleen Johnson Oscar Patten lives at 1510 Khanabad Drive – right down the street from Khanabad Way. Every time he sees the signs on those streets, he feels a bit of pride. Patten, 70, named the streets, using some words he Read More
Missoula Street Names The subject of Missoula’s street names is an old one. Missoula’s founders assigned names from the beginning in 1865 and as we all know the process continues unabated. But, contrary to what you might think, the town’s street names were not exactly handed out willy-nilly. They were Read More
Military Road From Fort Benton to Fort Walla Walla https://books.google.com/books?id=zJJBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA97&lpg=PA97&dq=reguis+borgia&source=bl&ots=8SpmRi2FU2&sig=MkEiW8zpQ0VzeCc71CY7XeCZwUs&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjOstKM55HaAhUJ-mMKHV3vBJw4ChDoAQgoMAE#v=onepage&q=reguis%20borgia&f=false
Confusing Street Names – 7/1/1917 Pity Poor Mail Man; He’s Lost Missoula Street Names Confusing Even to Drivers of Taxicabs. “Taxi, please.” “Where do you want to go?” “Oh, out to 723 Harrison.” According to the city directory, Harrison runs from Beech street northeast to Elm, four blocks east of Read More
Confusing Street Names – 7/1/1917 Pity Poor Mail Man; He’s Lost Missoula Street Names Confusing Even to Drivers of Taxicabs. “Taxi, please.” “Where do you want to go?” “Oh, out to 723 Harrison.” According to the city directory, Harrison runs from Beech street northeast to Elm, four blocks east of Read More
Mrs. M. O. Hastings Answers Call of Death News at the death of Mrs. Madeline O. Hastings at the home of Congressman and Mrs. John M. Evans in Washington early yesterday morning, brought sincere grief to many friends in Missoula, although her passing was not unexpected. Mrs. Hastings Read More
Captions from 2 photos on Page 12 Section D Daily Missoulian Band Poses on Campus The Daily Missoulian Band, organized by O. B. Strand (extreme right) in 1926, poses on steps of Main Hall. This band played concerts and participated in several parades during its two years of existence. Of Read More
Woodford St. Mr. Bickford was married in 1878, at Jamestown, New York, to Miss Emma S. Woodford, a grandniece of President Fillmore. From this union there has been one daughter. The above is from ‘An Illustrated History of the State of Montana” by Joaquin Miller – 1894. Read More