Lewis and Clark in Missoula

Adjacent to an East Broadway bridge spanning Rattlesnake Creek, right in front of a McDonald’s Restaurant, sits a small historical marker proclaiming the site to be a Lewis and Clark camping spot. With a little imagination, the rippling waters and ...

Missoula Mercantile Warehouse

Established 1866, the Missoula Mercantile—affectionately known as “ The Merc”—was one of Missoula’s first commercial establishments and quickly became its most important. In true mercantile fashion, the variety of merchandise sold there was unmatched. According to a store advertisement, “ ...

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 ...

Francis Worden Residence

On the corner of East Pine and Adams Street is an unassuming two-story house, clearly historic, but “ straightforward and unpretentious.”  With a steeply pitched gable roof and an open front porch, it’s the type of house one would expect ...

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 “ ...

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 ...

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 ...