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Inside back cover

“From Tents to Town” Bozeman’s Historic Main St.

“Gracious Gables” Bozeman’s Historic Manors

“In Praise of Bozeman”Bozeman’s Historic Churches

“The Whistle Stop Tour”Bozeman’s Breweries &

Railways

“Ghosts of Bozeman’s Past”Bozeman’s Sunset Hills

Cemetery

Bozeman’s Southside

“Between the Crosses, Row on Row that Mark our place”

Veterans in the Sunset Hills Cemetery

Our Walking Tours 2014

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Bozeman, Montana, situated near the center of the well-watered and fertile Gallatin Valley, is one of the earliest established, trading communities in the State. At an elevation of 4795 feet, the city has historically served as the commercial hub of a large agricultural area, and enjoys that role today.The current population of Bozeman is 21, 645. Bozeman’s historic resources reflect the evolution of this western Montana community from a frontier outpost located on the west side of Bozeman Pass to a prosperous stable commercial and educational center.

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The Extreme History Project is a non profit, public history organization which looks for ways of making history relevant for community, policy and Society.

We create and support events, programs, publications, research and any public offerings which promote social change through the understanding of shared history.

Social ills such as cultural and historical trauma, prejudices, historical denial and other such problems undermine the fabric of society by creating divisions, anger and hate. Often these problems stem from a lack of understanding and transparency of the underlining history which caused the formation of these conditions. The Extreme History Project looks for opportunities to research and present such history as a means to start a dialogue which can lead to healing individuals, communities and society as a whole. An understanding of our shared history and the complexities which formed our modern society has the potential to ignite a sympathy / empathy response where only misunderstanding and antipathy previously existed. This response can lead to building bridges between alienated communities, as well as sharing in the reconstruction of a new social paradigm.

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“From Tents to Town”Bozeman’s Historic Main St.

The Bozeman Main Street Historic District, the heart of the city of Bozeman and the only urban environment in the Gallatin Valley, is composed of a virtually uninterrupted streetscape of commercial buildings along both sides of four blocksThe district stretches along a segment of the primary, east-west thoroughfare in the valley, not far from its emergence from the mountainous Bozeman Pass. It is bounded at either end by the two major city landmarks, the six-story Baxter and four-story Bozeman Hotels. With the exception of a few buildings on Tracy Avenue and Babcock Street, the entire district is visible from any point within it on Main Street. Characterizing the district in general are two story, late 19th and early 20th century brick commercial blocks of varied height and design. Most have generally high architectural significance, but few stand out as exceptional. Bands of colorful, irregular storefronts, canopies, and signage unify all the buildings at street level, where little historic fabric survives. Of the 68 buildings in the district, 49 are architecturally significant. At least another three, while not yet fifty years old, are nevertheless architecturally important including the city’s only commercial example of the International style.

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Dale Martin grew up in the Seattle area, attended Washington State University, excavated and mapped archaeological sites, inventoried historic buildings and bridges, and now teaches history at Montana State University in Bozeman. Archaeological fieldwork gave him a great appreciation for seeing and doing history outdoors and urban settings, near bakeries

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“Gracious Gables”Bozeman’s Historic Manors

Bozeman’s finest examples of historic residential architecture, spanning from the early 1880’s to the mid-1930s, constitute the bulk of the 228 buildings in the Bon Ton Historic District. The brick and frame houses of the district line three long, north-south running streets, South Third Avenue, South Grand Avenue, and South Willson Avenue, and the east-west running West Cleveland Street at the southern end. The Italianate, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Bungalow, and other styles are well represented in the district. Many houses display towers, wrap-around porches, and elaborate ornamentation in brick and wood.

In 1935, elegant concrete lamp posts were installed lining both South Willson Avenue, a major thoroughfare through town which is wider than the others, and West Cleveland Street, the location of many fine Depression era houses. These lamp posts hel; to establish the southern and eastern borders of the district. To the south of the district are several blocks of predominantly non-contributing World War II, while to the east is the South Tracy – South Black Historic District. South Fourth Avenue, an unpaved alley, roms a clear boundary between this district and the Cooper Park Historic District to the west. North of the district is a cluster of churches which represent many of Bozeman’s denominations. North of the churches is the Main Street Historic District.

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“Between the Crosses, Row on Row, That Mark our place”

Veterans in the Sunset Hills CemeteryThe tour will look at veterans' grave markers and war memorials.

The grave markers show examples of military service such as the U.S. Kentucky Cavalry during the Civil War and the Army's "Spruce Division" during the First World War. Among the memorials will be the GAR Civil War monument and the half-scale Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall. The tour will explain the features in the cemetery in the context of how communities in the U.S. and beyond remember those who served and those who died in their nations' wars. There will be references to other memorials in the Bozeman area that people may visit on their own.

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Bozeman’s Historic Churches

Funding for the first church structure was organized by William White Alderson, John Bozeman being the first to donate $25. William Beall built the frame structure and the first service was held on July 28, 1867. Being the first church in town, all denominations used it alternately. Soon the Methodists had their own building, then the Episcopalians, and then the Catholics. We’ll visit these early churches and give you the history behind their building and the politics each played in the building of Bozeman.

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Bozeman’s Historic SouthsideThe south side of Bozeman historically held the foundational

establishments of Bozeman’s beginnings including the Emerson School, the post office, Flanders Sawmill and lumber yard, Dokken-Nelson Funeral Home and many churches. The south side also held the homes of many prominent founding families including the Lester and Emma Willson house, the Julia Martin House, the Mendenhall House, and the Lamme House. Join us to learn about Bozeman’s historic south side neighborhood, a microcosm of Bozeman’s burgeoning town.

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“The Whistle Stop Tour”Bozeman’s Breweries and

RailwaysThe northeast portion of Bozeman hosted two of the dominant sectors of the local economy in the early 20th century. Two railways connected Bozeman with the nation, and enabled the products of Gallatin Valley's farms to compete in national markets. For decades, the Northern Pacific passenger station on Front Street was Bozeman's focus of intercity travel and, until 1921, the northern terminus of Bozeman's street railway. Products of the valley's farms were stored and processed in, and shipped from, buildings and structures served by railway spurs. Major activities included storing wheat in grain elevators, making flour and cereals in mills, brewing beer, and packing dry peas at seed companies. In addition, warehouses received fresh produce shipped in by rail and held perishables in cold storage. The houses of northeastern Bozeman, clearly smaller and plainer than many that dominated streetscapes south of Main Street, were residences of workers and their families.

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“Ghosts of Bozeman’s Past”

Set atop a peaceful overlook, Bozeman’s historic Sunset Hills Cemetery offers a panoramic view of downtown while each evening’s sunset reflects the nature of its quiet inhabitants. Established in 1865, the early residents of Bozeman laid their loved ones to rest in this sanctified ground overlooking the town that their toil and labor helped establish. Join us to learn about Bozeman’s early movers and shakers and the stories that make up the town’s historical narrative.

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