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In 1846, the Deer Lodge Valley became part of the United States and Oregon Territory with the signing of the Oregon Treaty by the U. S. and Great Britain. From 1853 to 1863 it was in Washington Territory, then briefly part of Idaho Territory until the creation of Montana Territory in 1864.
On February 2, 1865, the first legislature of Montana Territory created nine counties of which Deer Lodge was one. The county seat was established at Silver Bow and changed to Deer Lodge City on December 10, 1867. Various changes have been made in the boundaries of the original Deer Lodge county at different times.
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Nov 21, 2013 · Facts & Insights. History & Area Info. The first discovery of gold in Montana was in 1852 on what is now Gold Creek about twenty miles north of Deer Lodge. Pan and sluice mining of gold by James and Granville Stuart, in 1860, attracted other prospectors to a district that was soon to be established. Deer Lodge is also the location of Grant ...
Feb 27, 2023 · Kohrs built his ranch operation into a huge success, with 10 million acres of grazing land to his name. Yet, a major setback was just around the corner in the form of the severe winter of 1886–1887, when temperatures stayed at 30-40 degrees below zero for seemingly endless weeks.
It became a part of Idaho Territory in 1863 and on January 16, 1864 the County of Deer Lodge was established by the legislature of Idaho with the county seat located at Idaho City (near the Cottonwood Fork of the Deer Lodge River).
First established in 1862 by Johnny Grant, though eventually becoming the home of Conrad Kohrs, the Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site gives visitors insight into the ranching and farming history of the area. Conrad Kohrs, one-half of the area’s namesake, was known as one of the “Cattle Kings” of Montana.
Deer Lodge boomed during the homesteading era, especially after 1908, when the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway made Deer Lodge a division point on its transcontinental line. Population increased by a third between 1910 and 1920.
