Central Montana

1highline.gifTRAVEL_MT2004-12-22T11:43:04167YVISITOR INFORMATIONhttp://www.centralmontana.comCentral Montana10001700<DIV class="cityaspfont"><ul class= "fotocolumn"><li class="brewfoto"><IMG SRC="/Pictures/Cities/HinghamWelcomesign.JPG" BORDER=0 WIDTH=222 HEIGHT=140 ALIGN=BASELINE>Welcome!Photo courtesy: MTOT</li></ul> Hingham, on the Hi-Line, is a shipping and storing station for stock and grain. The Highham Review reported in 1911, "We now have a thriving town in which 20 firms are doing business … this time last year, there was no semblance of a town here." Peter Carrier had come in on the Great Northern in 1909, bought some real estate and began developing a town. By 1912 elevators were built and a hospital and drug store opened. Hingham was perhaps the best town on the Hi-Line in those early days. It was euphemistically known as 'the progressive city, a city built on the square.' The Hi-Line is a much-used Montana term which indicates both the route laid out by the Great Northern Railroad and U.S. Highway 2 where it traverses the windswept, glaciated plains and shallow valleys of northern Montana. Much of the Hi-Line follows the <a href="/categories/moreinfo.asp?SiteID=1&IDRRecordID=713">Missouri</a> and <a href="/categories/moreinfo.asp?SiteID=1&IDRRecordID=3940">Milk</a> rivers, extending roughly from <a href="/categories/City.asp?CityID=262">Poplar</a> past <a href="/categories/moreinfo.asp?SiteID=1&IDRRecordID=2181">Fort Peck Reservoir</a>, to <a href="/categories/City.asp?CityID=140">Glasgow</a> and <a href="/categories/City.asp?CityID=211">Malta</a>, <a href="/categories/City.asp?CityID=60">Chinook</a> and <a href="/categories/City.asp?CityID=159">Havre</a>, and on to <a href="/categories/City.asp?CityID=304">Shelby</a>, <a href="/categories/City.asp?CityID=83">Cut Bank</a>, and <a href="/categories/City.asp?CityID=45">Browning</a>, ending up in <a href="/national_parks/glacier/">Glacier National Park</a>. (from Cheney's Names on the Face of Montana, Mountain Press Publishing Company)Hingham is not far from <a href="/categories/moreinfo.asp?SiteID=1&IDRRecordID=13282">Fresno Reservoir</a>, which has 7,388 surface acres and 65 miles of shoreline. It offers good fishing opportunities for walleye, northern pike, and perch. The reservoir has a concrete boat ramp, picnic shelters, and swimming beach, and nearby you can park your RV or pitch your tent at the <a href="/categories/moreinfo.asp?SiteID=1&IDRRecordID=2011">Fresno Reservoir Campground</a>.<map name="nearbycities"><area shape="rect" alt="Whitlash, Montana" coords="69,5,109,28" href="/categories/city.asp?CityID=357"><area shape="rect" alt="Sunburst, Montana" coords="8,10,53,28" href="/categories/city.asp?CityID=322"><area shape="rect" alt="Oilmont, Montana" coords="21,46,61,65" href="/categories/city.asp?CityID=242"><area shape="rect" alt="Shelby, Montana" coords="10,90,64,123" href="/categories/city.asp?CityID=304"><area shape="rect" alt="Galata, Montana" coords="67,84,90,105" href="/categories/city.asp?CityID=131"><area shape="rect" alt="Ledger, Montana" coords="15,132,56,147" href="/categories/city.asp?CityID=196"><area shape="rect" alt="Conrad, Montana" coords="6,148,70,167" href="/categories/city.asp?CityID=73"><area shape="rect" alt="Brady, Montana" coords="8,168,46,182" href="/categories/city.asp?CityID=39"><area shape="rect" alt="Lothair, Montana" coords="92,89,115,103" href="/categories/city.asp?CityID=209"><area shape="rect" alt="Virgelle, Montana" coords="202,178,246,192" href="/categories/city.asp?CityID=344"><area shape="rect" alt="Dutton, Montana" coords="4,204,35,221" href="/categories/city.asp?CityID=98"><area shape="rect" alt="Power, Montana" coords="5,225,36,242" href="/categories/city.asp?CityID=264"><area shape="rect" alt="Loma, Montana" coords="179,193,216,205" href="/categorie701123HINGHAMRUSSELLMT59528