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| Long Description | <DIV class="cityaspfont"><ul class= "fotocolumn"><li class="brewfoto"><IMG SRC="/Pictures/Cities/Sounds_on_the_Square.JPG" BORDER=0 WIDTH=222 HEIGHT=140 ALIGN=BASELINE><p class="fotocap">Sounds on the Square</p><p class="fotocred">Photo courtesy: Havre Chamber</p></li><li class="brewfoto"><IMG SRC="/Pictures/Cities/havre_historicresidentialdistrict.JPG" BORDER=0 WIDTH=222 HEIGHT=140 ALIGN=BASELINE><p class="fotocap">Historic Residential District</p><p class="fotocred">Photo courtesy: Havre Chamber</p></li><li class="brewfoto"><IMG SRC="/Pictures/Cities/Havre_fortassinniboine.JPG" BORDER=0 WIDTH=222 HEIGHT=140 ALIGN=BASELINE><p class="fotocap">Fort Assinniboine</p><p class="fotocred">Photo courtesy: Havre Chamber</p></li><li class="brewfoto"><IMG SRC="/Pictures/Cities/Havre_chamberflower.JPG" BORDER=0 WIDTH=222 HEIGHT=140 ALIGN=BASELINE><p class="fotocap">Bear Paw Mountains</p><p class="fotocred">Photo courtesy: Havre Chamber</p></li></ul>
<p>Havre, an agricultural city, is situated close to the Canadian border amidst the wide panorama of the open plains. Also a railroad town, it offers modern city conveniences in a remote setting, surrounded by unaltered and uncluttered plains. The economy is diversified with farming, ranching, hospital and health services, education, professional and retail businesses and the railroad.</p><p>Havre is the home of <a href="http://www.msun.edu/">Montana State University-Northern</a> and a key service point on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad northern Montana line. Havre is surrounded by the Milk River, wheat fields and the Bears Paw Mountains at an elevation of 2,494 feet</p><p><a href="/categories/moreinfo.asp?SiteID=1&IDRRecordID=11052">Buffalo Jump Archeological Site</a> is one of the largest prehistoric Indian bison kill- and camp-sites. The site was frequently used from approximately 2,000 to 600 years ago. Discovered in the fall of 1961, the site, situated on county land, has been kept in its natural state. The walking tour provides a unique and unequaled view of the area's cultural history.</p><p><a href="/categories/moreinfo.asp?SiteID=1&IDRRecordID=9512">Havre Beneath the Streets</a> is a re-creation of Havre's history. When fire destroyed most of Havre, business owners moved underground to carry on their business until the town could be rebuilt. Step back in time as far as 100 years ago.</p><p>Tour a military post of yesterday. <a href="/categories/moreinfo.asp?SiteID=1&IDRRecordID=11057">Historic Fort Assinniboine</a>, a late 19th-century Army installation, is one of the oldest in existence and the largest in Montana. Historic Fort Assinniboine, complete with preserved buildings, lies six miles southwest of Havre near the Milk River.</p><p>Located in the Holiday Village Shopping Center on Highway 2 West, the <a href="/categories/moreinfo.asp?SiteID=1&IDRRecordID=3117">H. Earl Clack Museum</a> gives an accurate picture of the history and development of Havre and the Hi-Line area and is an official stop on the <a href="/experiences/history/dinosaur_archeology/">Montana Dino Trail</a>. The museum features an archaeological excavation of a buffalo jump and a detailed explanation of a buffalo-kill. Four dioramas grace the museum, one by nationally known artist, Bob Scriver.</p><p>In the Bears Paw Mountains to the south is <a href="/categories/moreinfo.asp?SiteID=1&IDRRecordID=12055">Beaver Creek Park</a>.This 10,000-acre park, one of the largest county parks in the United States, features rolling grasslands, wooded groves, rocky cliffs and rushing streams. The <a href="/places_to_go/indian_nations/annishinabe-ne-i-yah-wahk-rocky-boys/">Rocky Boy's</a> and <a href="/places_to_go/indian_nations/nakoda-aaninin-fort-belknap/">Fort Belknap</a> Indian reservations are nearby.</p><p>The Havre/Hill County Preservation Commission has developed two self-guided walking tour maps, one for the Residential Historic District and the other for the Downtown Business & Railroad Historic Districts. Stroll back in time and enjoy the walk down tree lined streets where many of Havre's founding fathers built their homes. Explore the historic downtown, where businesses today occupy many of buildings of early times. Maps are available at the Chamber of Commerce and the Havre/Hill County Library. For a self-guided tour map of the historic districts contact the <a href="http://www.havremt.com/">Chamber</a> at 406-265-4383. Havre Residential and Downtown Historic District Tours offers three great guided walking tours throughout the Havre Residential Historic District, a wonderful Old Downtown Havre tour, and a fantastic Combination Historic Homes and Old Downtown Stroll. Tours are available by appointment throughout the year, weather permitting, except some holidays. Please call 406-399-5225 for more information on cost and where the tours start.</p> |
| History | <div class= "fotocolumn"><div class="brewfoto"><IMG SRC="/Pictures/Cities/Havre_Kicks.JPG" BORDER=0 WIDTH=222 HEIGHT=140 ALIGN=BASELINE><div class="fotocap">Havre Kicks @ Six</div><p><div class="fotocred">Photo courtesy: Havre Chamber</div></div><div class="brewfoto"><IMG SRC="/Pictures/Cities/havre_historicresidentialdistrict.JPG" BORDER=0 WIDTH=222 HEIGHT=140 ALIGN=BASELINE><div class="fotocap">Historic Residential<br>District</div><div class="fotocred">Photo courtesy: Havre Chamber</div></div><div class="brewfoto"><IMG SRC="/Pictures/Cities/Havre_fortassinniboine.JPG" BORDER=0 WIDTH=222 HEIGHT=140 ALIGN=BASELINE><div class="fotocap">Fort Assinniboine</div><p><div class="fotocred">Photo courtesy: Havre Chamber</div></div><div class="brewfoto"><IMG SRC="/Pictures/Cities/Havre_chamberflower.JPG" BORDER=0 WIDTH=222 HEIGHT=140 ALIGN=BASELINE><div class="fotocap">Bear Paw Mountains</div><div class="fotocred">Photo courtesy: Havre Chamber</div></div></div>
Located in the rolling plains of north central Montana, Havre was founded more than 100 years ago. This area was first called Bull Hook Bottoms, after a stream by that name that flows out of the Milk River. The town was founded in the fall of 1891, when the original railroad station at Fort Assiniboine on the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway was abandoned. James J. Hill sent his construction crew out in 1887 and, finding plenty of good water in the area, he decided to build a branch line south to Great Falls from here instead of going on towards the West Coast. The name of the town was changed to Havre in honor of the birthplace (in France) of Simon Pepin and Gus DesCelles, the original homesteaders on land that was later used as the townsite. (from Cheney’s <I>Names on the Face of Montana</I>, Mountain Press Publishing Company)
Havre, a agricultural city, is situated close to the Canadian border amidst the wide panorama of the open plains. Also a railroad town, it offers modern city conveniences in a remote setting, surrounded by unaltered and uncluttered plains. The economy is diversified with farming, ranching, hospital and health services, education, professional and retail businesses and the railroad.
Havre is the home of <a href = "http://www.msun.edu/">Montana State University-Northern</a> and a key service point on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad northern Montana line. Havre is surrounded by the Milk River, wheat fields and the Bears Paw Mountains at an elevation of 2,494 feet
<a href = "http://visitmt.com/categories/moreinfo.asp?SiteID=1&IDRRecordID=11052">Buffalo Jump Archeological Site</a> is one of the largest prehistoric Indian bison kill- and camp-sites. The site was frequently used from approximately 2,000 to 600 years ago. Discovered in the fall of 1961, the site, situated on county land, has been kept in its natural state. The walking tour provides a unique and unequaled view of the area's cultural history.
<a href = "http://visitmt.com/categories/moreinfo.asp?SiteID=1&IDRRecordID=9512">Havre Beneath the Streets</a> is a re-creation of Havre's history. When fire destroyed most of Havre, business owners moved underground to carry on their business until the town could be rebuilt. Step back in time as far as 100 years ago, into the Sporting Eagle Saloon, a turn-of-the-century honkytonk where cowboys gambled, kicked up their heels and drank good old-fashioned frontier rot-gut. Saunter along the streets beneath Havre and the Sporting Eagle Saloon, and visit an opium den (one of three known to have existed in the early days), a Chinese laundry, bakery, barbershop, an ethnic restaurant, and of course, a bordello. They all look as they did at the turn of the century.
Tour a military post of yesterday. <a href = "http://visitmt.com/categories/moreinfo.asp?SiteID=1&IDRRecordID=11057">Historic Fort Assinniboine</a>, a late 19th-century Army installation, is one of the oldest in existence and the largest in Montana. Previously the frontier home of battalions of American infantry and cavalry and the site of John J. Pershing's first field assignment, the fort stands today as a monument to our state's exciting past. Historic Fort Assinniboine, complete with preserved buildings, lies six miles southwest of Havre near the Milk River.
Located in the <a href = "http://visitmt.com/categories/moreinfo.asp?SiteID=1&IDRRecordID=17715">Holiday Village Shopping Center</a> on Highway 2 West, the <a href = "http://visitmt.com/categories/moreinfo.asp?SiteID=1&IDRRecordID=3117">H. Earl Clack Museum</a> gives an accurate picture of the history and development of Havre and the Hi-Line area and is an official stop on the <a href = "http://visitmt.com/experiences/history/dinosaur_archeology/">Montana Dino Trail</a>. The museum features an archaeological excavation of a buffalo jump and a detailed explanation of a buffalo-kill. Four dioramas grace the museum, one by nationally known artist, Bob Scriver.
In the Bears Paw Mountains to the south is Beaver Creek Park. This 10,000-acre park, one of the largest county parks in the United States, features rolling grasslands, wooded groves, rocky cliffs and rushing streams. The Rocky Boy's and Fort Belknap Indian reservations are nearby.
The Havre/Hill County Preservation Commission has developed two self- guided walking tour maps, one for the Residential Historic District and the other for the Downtown Business & Railroad Historic Districts. Stroll back in time and enjoy the walk down tree lined streets where many of Havre's founding fathers built their homes. Explore the historic downtown, where businesses today occupy many of buildings of early times. Maps are available at the Chamber of Commerce and the Havre/Hill County Library. For a guided tour of the historic districts contact the <a href = "http://www.havremt.com/">Chamber</a> @ 265-4383. High Line Heritage Resources offers three great guided walking tours throughout the Havre Residential Historic District, a wonderful Old Downtown Havre tour, and a fantastic Combination Historic Homes and Old Downtown Stroll. Tours are available by appointment throughout the year, weather permitting, except some holidays. Please call 265-6233 for more information on cost and where the tours start. |
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| Created By | TRAVEL_MT |
| Date Created | 12/22/2004 11:43:04 AM |
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| Name | HAVRE |
| Region | RUSSELL |
| State | MT |
| Weather URL | 159 |
| Zip code | 59501 |