Laurel Downtown Historic District

ID: 4425 ~ Source: Montana State Historic Preservation Office ~ Creator: Sara Adamson ~ Date: June 2009
This file appears in: Laurel Downtown Historic District
Laurel Downtown Historic District
Public Domain

Laurel Downtown Historic District. View of 119, 117, 113, 111, 109, 107, 105, and 101 West main Street, facing southwest.

This file appears in: Laurel Downtown Historic District

The Northern Pacific Railroad steamed through the Yellowstone Basin in 1883, passing the small agricultural community of Carlton. The town was renamed Laurel, and a post office opened there in 1886. When the Rocky Fork Railroad, an affiliate of the…