Laurel Downtown Historic District

ID: 4431 ~ Source: Montana State Historic Preservation Office ~ Creator: Photographer unidentified ~ Date: 1940
This file appears in: Laurel Downtown Historic District
Laurel Downtown Historic District
Public Domain

Laurel Downtown Historic District. View of the 100 block of East and West Main Street, facing southeast.

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…