Toole Park - Salish Campground

The Salish Indians have a long and storied history in this valley. The area where you are standing was once used by the Salish to harvest bitterroot, a dietary staple for Indian tribes in the region. Every spring, the Salish, ...

Northern Pacific Railroad Depot

In the early twentieth century, railroads provided remote communities with a vital link to the outside world. The 1883 arrival of the Northern Pacific Railroad provided reliable transportation for the people of Missoula and served as a commercial boon for ...

Milwaukee Depot

Between 1906 and 1909, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway—almost universally known as the Milwaukee Road—expanded west to Puget Sound. The line spanned South Dakota and Montana with track arriving in Missoula in 1908 along the south shore of ...

Labor Temple

The traditional center of the organized labor movement in Missoula is the Labor Temple building on East Main Street. In 1896, Copper baron Marcus Daly donated the land for a union hall where organizers constructed a simple frame building. Besides ...

Joseph Dixon Residence

In 1891, Joseph Dixon, a twenty-four year-old North Carolina native and recent college graduate, wrote a letter to his father’s cousin Frank Woody, who practiced law in the small frontier town of Missoula, Montana, asking if he could work under ...

Missoula First Presbyterian Church

“In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived at the juncture of great trout rivers in western Montana, and our father was a Presbyterian minister and a fly fisherman who tied his own ...

East Pine Historic District

Now located near the heart of downtown Missoula, the East Pine Historic District was once an isolated and untamed area on the outskirts of town.

In an effort to escape the hustle and bustle of downtown Missoula, Francis Worden built ...

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 “ ...

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 ...

Indian Camp Plantation

The plantation home, built in the 1850s, became the site of the Louisiana State Leprosarium in 1894. The U.S. Public Health Service acquired it in 1921. It is now known as the National Hansen's Disease Center.

Erected by the Department of ...