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Powder River Historical Museum and Mac's Museum
102 West Wilson,
Broadus
Montana
USA
59317
406-436-2977
Type: Museum
Hours: Mon - Sat: 9:00am -5:00pm.
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Broadus
Montana
USA
59317
406-436-2977
Type: Museum
Hours: Mon - Sat: 9:00am -5:00pm.
Comments ( 0 )
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The Museum was opened in June of 1988 at the location of the Midland Lumber Company (formerly the Yellowstone Lumber Company). Horace and Charlotte Wilbur Broaddus, as a gift to be made in memory of the Broaddus, Wilbur and Fudge families, purchased the property. It is operated by volunteers and supported only by donations and memorials from the public. The mission of the Historical Society is to preserve, assemble, protect and memorialize any item or items of local historic interest.
It contains many valuable historical collections, including photos and books, Indian artifacts, old guns and ammunition, pre-1900 buggies, vintage autos, rebuilt engines, threshing machines, tractors and farm implements. A prized acquisition are battlefield artifacts from the Reynolds Campaign in 1876 - a forerunner of Custer’s last stand. In the Museum’s relatively few years of operation, the half block complex is rapidly filling up with these objects.
The 1992 acquisition of the famous Mac’s Museum was a big development. Mac’s Museum was previously housed in the local high school and is now located in a separate building, financed by the sale of a local-interest book consisting of a WPA-financed interview project of pre-homestead era settlers. Mac’s contains over a thousand arrowheads, birds’ eggs, butterflies, geologic specimens, as well as one of the finest and largest sea shell collections in the world - a real tribute to one person’s efforts. Visitors come away in disbelief that a small town museum could have such a unique collection. This has resulted in many return visits.
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