(Helena, MT) —Montana’s State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) and State Historic Preservation Review Board will hold their tri-annual public meeting on September 18 in Big Timber.
The Board will review and forward National Register nominations to the Keeper of the National Register at the U.S. Department of the Interior. The Board will consider nominations for six historic properties across Montana including one in Phillps County.
The Milk River Bridge in Phillips County was constructed in 1911 by Illinois Steel Bridge Company, this Parker through truss bridge served the Theodore Roosevelt International Highway (later U.S. Highway 2) and facilitated critical access to Malta during Montana’s homestead boom.
The other nominations are Skye Brother Mercantile in Ashland, Goughnour Lumber Company in Livingston, Carpenter Paper Company in Billings, First Congregational Church in Billins, and the Musselshell River Bridge in Golden Valley County.
For more information on the upcoming meeting, contact Melissa Munson at (406) 444-7715.
