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Parade Categories

 

American Indian

 

  1. AIM - American Indian Movement (pick an issue)

  2. Big Medicine & White Buffalo Montana Historical Society)

  3. Boarding Schools

  4. Buffalo Jump Diorama(Montana Historical Society)

  5. Buffalo Hunting

  6. Depictions of Native American Relationship to Nature

  7. Dog Days (Resource: Montana Historical Society)

  8. First Agencies of the Tribes

  9. Historical scenes between Lewis & Clark & Sacajawea

  10. Historical scenes between U.S. Army and Native Americans

  11. Fort Shaw All Girls Basketball Team

  12. Indian Health Services (Nicholas Vrooman-Pocha Clinic)

  13. Madison Buffalo Jump

  14. Reservation Flags of the Tribes

  15. Marvin Camel-great featherweight boxer

  16. Metis - Cree, Ojibway, Saulteaux, and Menominee.

  17. Story Telling Tradition

  18. Travois Travel - Dog Days (Montana Historical Society)

  19. Traditional games- Shinny and Double Ball

  20. Treaty Signings (ie. Fort Laramie)

  21. Tribal Life (winter or summer camp, brain tanning)

Resources: Amanda Walking-Child (324-2598 or 324 2237), or Matt Reyant (324-2598)

 

 

Historic Helena

 

  1. Archie Bray Foundation (1952)

  2. Building of St. Helena Cathedral

  3. Canyon Ferry Dam, First on in 1898

  4. Centennial Ball (1964)

  5. Civic Center (1920)

  6. Collapse of Hauser Dam in 1908

  7. Construction of the State Capitol 1898-1902

  8. Fire Tower Built in 1874

  9. First Vigilante Parade (1923)

  10. Flower Parade (1908)

  11. Flying through the Cathedral

  12. Fourth of July Parade (1904)

  13. Governor's Cup (1973)

  14. Groundbreaking at Mount St. Charles, Carroll College (1917)

  15. Hanging Tree (chopped down in 1875, near Highland & Blake streets)

  16. Helena Earthquake (1935)

  17. Helena Fire: 1872 most of Last Chance burnt

  18. Helena High Football Team (1910)

  19. Helena High Hockey (1940)

  20. Helena Horse Racing

  21. Helena Tennis Club (1890)

  22. Helena's Chinatown (South Main/Reeder's Alley)

  23. Helena's First Fire Dept.

  24. Helena's First Speed Cop

  25. Helena's Montana Club (1885)

  26. Helena's State Fair (1909-1915)

  27. High School in railcars after Earthquake (1935-1938)

  28. Helena Thespian Troupe

  29. Last Chance Stampede (Began 1960)

  30. Mann Gulch Fire (1949)

  31. Meagher Statue Dedication:  1905

  32. Montana Deaconess School

  33. Montana Historical Society

  34. Mt. St. Charles (CC) Championship Football Team (’31)

  35. Original Governor's Mansion (1913-1959)

  36. The Great Helena Fire of 1828

  37. The Great 1918 Car Race (Helena)

  38. Vigilantes of Helena and origin of 3-7-77

  39. Vigilantes captured Con Murphy 1874 after escape from the Helena jail

  40. St. John’s Church in Helena    

  41. Ted Kaczynski----Unabomber 1996 (The cabin and arrest).

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Pioneer Life

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  1. 1886-1887 Horrible Winter (CM Russell's Last of the 5000)

  2. Belmont Ski Club: Began in 1941, now Great Divide

  3. Cabins in Reeder's Alley

  4. Camp Rimini (US Army Dog Training Center in WWII)

  5. Cemetery Island covered by Canyon Ferry Dam

  6. Carroll College Boxing Smoker (1959)

  7. Chevalier Ranch

  8. Elkhorn Ghost town: Booming mining town in the 1870’s

  9. Evolution of Helena life Buffalo (Montana Historical Society)

  10. First Special Services Force Training in Helena (1942)

  11. First Telephone Exchange in Helena (1882)

  12. Fort Harrison: Constricted in 1892

  13. Fur Trapping/Fur Trade in the Helena region

  14. Green Meadow Country Club (1925)

  15. Henry Sieben's Cattle Ranch

  16. Hilger's Sheep Ranch

  17. Lamb Ranch

  18. Little Red Brick School House (Silver Creek School)

  19. Montana Fish and Game

  20. Montana's 163rd Infantry 41st Division

  21. Mystery of Forestvale Cemetery

  22. Siebrand Brothers Circus (1953)

  23. Sheridan School (Reeder's Alley)

  24. Shooting Craps at the MT Club (before ‘40’s crackdown)

  25. Spring Skiing at Belmont 1930’s & 1940’s

  26. The Rose of Helena: tour boat at the Gates of the Mountains

  27. We Can Do It!” (Helena women during WWII)

 

 

Helena Business

 

  1. Asarco-East Helena Smelter (opened 1888)

  2. Big Dorothy's(Windbag Saloon)

  3. Broadwater Hotel

  4. Capital City Bowling Alley (1958)

  5. Drive-In Theater's - Sunset (1949) or Sky-Hi (1952)

  6. Eddy’s Bakery

  7. Frontier Town

  8. Gans & Klein Clothing Store

  9. Gertie's Drive-In

  10. Montana Woman’s Commemorative Mural

  11. Grand Pacific Bar

  12. Grand Street Theater (1976)

  13. Helena Brewery

  14. Helena Herald Newspaper (1874)

  15. Helena's First Nat'l Bank

  16. Holter Hardware (1891)

  17. Holter Sawmill

  18. House of Wong: Popular Helena Chinese restaurant 1947-1974

  19. Imperial Lanes Bowling (1957)

  20. Kessler Brewery (1868)

  21. KTVH TV, First television station in Helena (1958)

  22. Marlow Theater - Helena's Showplace (1918-1972)

  23. Magnolia Hotel (1865)

  24. Montana Power (created 1912)

  25. Montana State Fund & Workers Comp. (1915)

  26. Myrna Loy Center (1976)

  27. National Biscuit Company

  28. Pacific Hide and Fur

  29. RB Drive In

  30. St. Peter’s Hospital (est. 1883)

  31. The Weiss Café

  32. The Parrot

 

 

Famous People

 

  1. Amelia Earhart visits Helena (1923)

  2. Attorney General John Bonner

  3. Belle Weinstein: 1914 launched Montana suffragette movement

  4. Charles Lindbergh arrives in Helena (1927)

  5. Cromwell Dixon (first flight over the Continental Divide)

  6. Dwight D. Eisenhower (‘51 visit running for president)

  7. Famous Madams-Josephine "Chicago Jo" Hensley

  8. Fanny Cory- Pioneer artist

  9. Fannie Sperry Steele: 1st Champion Lady Bucking Horse Riders

  10. Four Georgians who first came to Last Chance Gulch

  11. Crazy Belle Crafton: famous madam of the red light district

  12. Gary Cooper: World Famous actor and Helena Native

  13. Jack Dempsey, the great boxer in Helena (1942)

  14. James Wesley & Clarissa Jane Crump (Former slaves - miners)

  15. Jeannette Rankin: first women elected to Congress in 1918

  16. John F. Kennedy (campaign visit 1960)

  17. John Quigley builds Frontier Town (1946-1979)

  18. Leo Seltzer: The Man Behind Roller Derby

  19. Montana Women’s Commemorative Mural: Dedicated in 1979

  20. Myrna Loy: World famous actress and Helena Native

  21. Pat Donovan: HHS Grad, All pro center for the Dallas Cowboys

  22. Teddy Roosevelt (1903 visit to Helena)

  23. Thomas Power, his steamboat, the "Helena" & Power Block

  24. William Taft-President(Came through Helena in 1909)

 

 

Mining and Transportation

 

  1. 1875 US Assay Office (where gov't purchased gold)

  2. 1883 Northern Pacific RR Arrives in Helena

  3. Charcoal Kilns of Wickes: Wickes Ghost Town south of Helena

  4. Drum Lummon Mine

  5. Ferry at Canyon Ferry

  6. Helena Stage Service: last run in 1883 to Missoula

  7. Helena's Street Railway (Trolley 1882)

  8. Helena Train Wreck 1989, explosion during record cold stretch

  9. Helena Tour Train (1950's)

  10. Last Chance Gulch Gold Discoverers (4 Georgians)

  11. Last Chance Gulch during Gold Rush

  12. Montana Central RR: 1890’s from Helena, Butte & Great Falls

  13. Montana Transportation History (Montana Historical Society)

  14. Mullan Tunnel from Logan to Garrison finished in 1883

  15. Northern Pacific Railroad Depot (RR Street): 1885 Helena.

  16. Northern Pacific East Helena Depot: Built in 1930 for E. Helena

  17. Vigilante Highway from Yellowstone to Helena (early 1920’s)

 

 

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Antique Vehicles-Any vehicle from 1970 and older

 

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