Sponsor – Jeannette Rankin Peace Center

Visit the Peace Center—say you found us on Next Exit History and choose a free “Speak Your Mind” button.

In 1986, when peace and justice advocates from the Missoula area envisioned opening a center to serve as “ ...

Missoula Federal Building

Located on the corner of Pattee and East Broadway, Missoula’s first bona fide federal building was completed in 1913. Senator Joseph Dixon, from Missoula, secured funds for its construction, and James Knox Taylor, an architect with the U. S. Treasury ...

Carnegie Library - Missoula Art Museum

At the corner of Pattee and East Pine streets, stands Missoula’s original Carnegie Library, which is now home to the Missoula Art Museum. Carnegie Libraries are found throughout the country and are the product of the philanthropic efforts of nineteenth-century ...

Caras Park/Missoula Mills Millstone

Missoula’s beginnings can be traced to the Clark Fork riverfront that is now Caras Park. In 1860, town founders C. P. Higgins and Francis L. Worden established a trading post in Hell ...

The National Hansen's Disease Museum and Archives

Visitors come to the National Hansen's Disease Museum (NHDM) to experience the story of Carville, the only National Leprosarium (leprosy hospital) in the United States. Starting in 1894, patients, doctors and other health care professionals lived, worked, and made medical ...

Brick Block/Montgomery Ward

Main Street and Higgins Avenue is one of Missoula’s busiest intersections and it has been since the town’s earliest days. So it should come as little surprise that town founders Francis L. Worden and C. P. Higgins chose to locate ...

Babs Apartments/Garden City Commercial College

Set behind Missoula’s Hip Strip commercial district on the south end of the Higgins Avenue Bridge, it’s hard to miss the Babs building. Built in 1905 and designed by Missoula architect A. J. Gibson, this Queen Anne-style Victorian landmark features ...

1909 Missoula Free Speech Fight

The corner of Higgins Avenue and West Front Street, known today as “Free Speech Corner,” marks the location of an important victory in the fight for national free speech rights. The Free Speech Fight in Missoula began in the fall ...

Castillo de San Marcos

The Castillo de San Marcos was the 10th fort built in St. Augustine. Flooding, fire, and the subtropical climate destroyed the nine previous forts. The construction of the fort occurred for two reasons: pirate Robert Searles’ English-sanctioned attack on St. ...

Aviles Street

Located two blocks from the Matanzas River, Aviles Street is considered one of the oldest thoroughfares in St. Augustine, in existence for over 400 years. Constructed in the late 16th or early 17th century to fit the Spanish city plan, ...