Taft, Montana
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Taft is a ghost town in the U.S. state of Montana. Located in the Bitterroot Range near the Idaho border, it was a rip roaring railroad town circa 1908.
It was founded when the Chicago, Milwaukee & Pacific Railroad built its Pacific Coast expansion and had to bore an 8,300 foot tunnel through the mountains near its site. After the St. Paul Pass tunnel was finished the town died out and was finally burned down in the winter of 1909 to 1910.[1]
Today on Interstate 90 the site is noted by an exit marked Taft Area.
[edit] References
- ^ Description of Taft in 1939 from MTlinks.com
