Did You Know....

In 1999 Saco residents (of Phillips County) broke a Guiness world record by making the world’s largest hamburger, using beef from 17 cattle to form a 6,040-pound burger.

Grizzly Gulch commemorates an encounter between gold seeker David Wright and a grizzly bear that had entered Helena’s Last Chance Gulch.

Scherlie Homestead was homesteaded by Anna Scherlie in 1913 when she was 32 years old, becoming part of a long tradition of women homesteaders in Montana. 

The Homestead in Blaine County is listed on the National Register.

President Abraham Lincoln signed the bill creating Montana Territory.

More than 40 Hutterite colonies exist around the state; the biggest are in Augusta, Havre, Gildford, and Lewistown.

Anthea George