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CARBON COUNTY

I am Rebecca Maloney the County Coordinator.  If you have genealogy items of interest you would like to share- PLEASE Contact me !   Thank you to the previous CC's and volunteers that have helped with this MTGenWeb Project!

Early School Bus in Carbon County MT

Carbon County Creamery Co

Harness / Saddle Shop in Red Lodge MT Early 1900's

Washoe Coal Company

1903 Directory for Carbon County Montana

Bank interior ca. 1910. Daniel O’Shea, bank president

1922 Belfry Montana

“Montana, A State of Extremes,” was a favorite adage, not to mention a great book by the late historian K. Ross Toole. His words could not ring more true than in Carbon County which has experienced in the course of one year, the extremes from fire to flood. Overseeing it all are the stalwart and brave firemen.
The town’s first major fire on March 23, 1900, devastated the business district, thus demonstrating the need for a fire department. By July of this year, an “excellent” volunteer fire fighting force was formed with William Larkin as the first chief. They were equipped with hand-drawn carts, but later a “new-fangled” fire wagon was purchased. It contained a hook and ladder and several thousand feet of hose that provided 140lbs of pressure thus ensuring “ample” fire protection. The only paid member was the wagon-driver, who needed skills to handle the wagon and trained horses, in 1904 this was William Slaughter.
The town’s first fire truck a 1916 LaFrance is viewed in 1930 with driver, Kenneth Donley. Seated: Fire Chief, Fred Alden; running board, Asst. Chief Harold Graves. Back, l-r, Dick Mallin, Unknown, and Tom Olcott.

Karen De Groote, State Coordinator

Suzanne Andrews, Assistant State Coordinator

Rebecca Maloney, County Coordinator

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