Museum of the Beartooths - Columbus, MT
The Museum of the Beartooths in Columbus, Montana, reflects Stillwater County's history as far back as the 1870s. The museum's main building was newly constructed as a museum in 1991. Exhibits include: historic washing machines, the Albert Johnson vintage home furniture, artifacts relating to the second Crow Agency, 1875-1882, and 1895 Line Drug Company pharmaceutics. The military section features a tribute to native Donald J. Ruhl, one of Montana's seven Congressional Medal of Honor recipients, after his sacrificial death on Iwo Jima. more info
Other notable displays relate the 1938 story of Frank Robideau's hanging in Columbus and a timeline of mining activities culminating in the present Stillwater Mining Company platinum/palladium mine, the only one in America.
Discover the 1938 story of Frank Robideau's hanging in Columbus.
Visitors will find the quaint museum gift shop fascinating with its variety of made-in-Montana crafts, as well as books and memorabilia items. Outdoors, a new building displays farm machinery and associated tools; a forge from a historic blacksmith shop; and flour-sacker from the once thriving county flour mill.
Nearby, visitors may tour a retired 1960's Northern Pacific caboose, kindly donated by Burlington Northern/Santa Fe Railroad Company.
Tour a retired 1960's Northern Pacific caboose.
Address:
440 East 5th Avenue
North Columbus
Montana USA 59019
51F
