Helena History

Published 12:33 pm Monday, August 10, 2015

By Staff Reports

Tipple at Coalmont circa 1908. Thirty-seven years ago an 86-year-old miner named Johnny Minshew, who came to Coalmont in 1914, and remembered the mining town had two mine openings, about 100 houses, a doctor, a barber, a store and a school where people danced on Saturday night and worshipped on Sunday morning. (Contributed/City of Helena Museum)

Tipple at Coalmont circa 1908. Thirty-seven years ago an 86-year-old miner named Johnny Minshew, who came to Coalmont in 1914, and remembered the mining town had two mine openings, about 100 houses, a doctor, a barber, a store and a school where people danced on Saturday night and worshipped on Sunday morning. (Contributed/City of Helena Museum)

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