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First' Residents Narrate Castle Mining Camp History
Harlowton Times recounts Castle Montana mining camp origins from Lafe Hensley and M J Fowlie. It details the Cumberland and Yellowstone mines, steam hoists, smelters, town incorporation, mayoral contests, early newspapers, water works, social life, incidents, and the eventual silver slump reducing population from 1300 to single digits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harlowton Times
Harlowton Woman’s, Club
Lips
J. S. Border
Castle
M. J. Fowlie
Ringling
Castile
Meagher
Montana
Lafe Hensley
Isaac
Joseph
John
Cumberland
Jumbo
Yellowstone
California
Alice
Black Hawk
Hamden
Judge
Hensley Bros
King & Ash
Billings
Cumberland Mining & Smelting Co
J. Kennedy Todd
New York
Oppenheimer
Symons Dry Goods
Butte
David E. Folsom
White Sulphur Springs
Bernard McDonald
United States
Allebaugh
Yellowstone Mining and Smelting Co
Alebaugh Creek
Great Eastern
Jack Humphries
Nick Tredennick
Swansea
Wales
Humphries
Tredennick
Cooke City
Wm. Gordon
Tacoma
H. J. Griffin
Bacon & Griffin
P. H. Tooley
Senator Tooley
T. J. Fowlie
Charley Schlosser
Castle Reporter
Castle Tribune
B. B. Birney
City Water Company
James King
Helena
Boulder Creek
Livingston
Castle Mountains
HH. Barnes
Treadwell
Alice N. Barnes
Fish Mowe
Ira Gordon
William Lyons
Hensley
Joe Reed
Reed & Williams
Castle Hotel
F. Henry