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  History of Great Falls, Montana, USA

Journey back in time to Great Falls, Montana, USA

Visit Great Falls, Montana, USA. Discover its history. Learn about the people who lived there through stories, old newspaper articles, pictures, postcards and genealogy.

     

• Great Falls was founded in 1883.
  
  
  
•  1891 - FOUR KILLED BY AN EXPLOSION.
  GREAT FALLS, Mont., Oct. 27. - A party who arrived in town from the end of the Pacific extension of the Great Northern brought the news of an accident there, the result of which is appalling. Four men are dead and two maimed for life by an explosion twenty-two miles west of the summit.
  
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  Central Avenue and First Street, looking East, Great Falls, Mont.
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•  1902 - Child Crushed by coach. Three Year Old Girl of Great Falls Ran Over and Killed.
  The Lewiston coach ran down and crushed to death GLADYS CHAMBERLAIN, the three year old daughter of Mr. And Mrs. Samuel Chamberlain at Great Falls, Mont. The accident occurred directly in front of the little ones home, where she was taken and died half an hour later. The heavy wheels of the coach...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1911 - FORMER RESIDENT OF CITY KILLED. J. M. McCoy Was Struck by Passenger Train at Great Falls Friday Evening.
  J. M. McCoy, formerly a resident of Grand Forks, was struck by a Great Northern passenger train while walking across a railroad bridge at Great Falls, Mont., Friday evening and died Saturday morning. Miss Anna McCoy, who left the city a short time ago for Great Falls, but who was visiting in Grand...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1916
  Great Falls, a city, capital of Cascade co., Mont., on the Missouri River and on the Great Northern R., 99 miles NE. by N. of Helena. It has large smelting- and reduction-works, breweries, flouring-mills, etc. It is an important shipping point for wool. Pop. in 1900, 14,930. The Missouri at this...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Moonlight at Rainbow Falls
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  Smelter, Power Plant and Missouri River, Great Falls, Montana
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•  1946 - ARMY PLANE HITS CROWDED STABLE AT MONTANA FAIR. TWO BOMBERS IN MID-AIR COLLISION; 8 DEAD, AT LEAST TEN HURT.
  Great Falls, Mont. - Police said today at least eight persons were killed and ten hurt when two Army bombers collided over the State Fair grounds yesterday and one of them crashed in flames into a crowded stable.
  
  Sheriff's deputies and volunteer workers searched the smoking ruins of the stable...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1949 - Man Looking for Gas Leak Finds It by Lighting Match; Fire Extinguished.
  Great Falls, Dec. 30 - (AP) - It finally happened.
  
  A gas company employe, checking a report of escaping gas in a Great Falls residence Friday afternoon, went looking for the leak with matches, city firemen reported. He found it.
  
  Firemen extinguished the blaze after some damage resulted. The...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1954 - March 21 - KFBB TV channel 5 in Great Falls, MT (ABC/CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting
  
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