Taft, Montana

Taft, Montana
Populated place
Taft is located in Montana
Taft
Taft
Taft is located in the United States
Taft
Taft
Coordinates: 47°25′04″N 115°36′06″W / 47.41778°N 115.60167°W / 47.41778; -115.60167
CountryUnited States
StateMontana
CountyMineral
Named forPresident William Taft
Elevation
[1]
3,708 ft (1,130 m)
Time zoneUTC-7 (MST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-6 (MDT)
Area Code406
GNIS feature ID791856[1]

Taft is a populated place in Mineral County, Montana.[1] Located in the Bitterroot Range near the Idaho border along the route of the Mullan Road, it was a thriving railroad town c. 1908, named after William H. Taft (shortly before he was elected president in 1908).

It is said in both Up the Swiftwater by Sandra A. Crowell and David O. Asleson, and in The Big Burn by Timothy Egan, that the unnamed work camp got its name after Taft, then Secretary of War, traveling on a Northern Pacific train, berated the town as a blight on the American landscape which must clean up its act, to a cheering drunken crowd. The town was then enthusiastically named in his honor.[2]

History

The boomtown was founded when the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad ("The Milwaukee Road") built its Pacific Coast extension (1906–1909) and had to bore a 1.66-mile (2.67 km) tunnel through the mountains near its site.[3] Tunnel #20 on the railroad, it is known as St. Paul Pass Tunnel or Taft Tunnel; its East Portal is two miles (3 km) southwest at approximately 4,150 feet (1,260 m) above sea level and heads southwest into Idaho.[4]

In its earliest years, the town consisted mostly of men working for the railroad, mining, or forest industries. It was notorious for drinking, gambling, a murder rate higher than Chicago, and a reputed "five prostitutes for every man." One reporter described it as "the wickedest city in America."[5]

Taft burned to the ground 114 years ago on 21 August 1910,[6][7] during "The Big Burn" - a giant forest wildfire fed by Palouser winds, and was not rebuilt.[5] (see The Big Burn by Timothy Egan. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing, 2009.)

Today

Today, on Interstate 90, the site is noted by exit 5, marked "Taft." The area hosts a maintenance yard for the Montana Department of Transportation, access to the Route of the Hiawatha rail trail,[4] and access to St. Regis (Sohon) / Mullan Pass vía Randolph Creek Road, which heads north and west from I-90.

References

  1. ^ a b c U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Taft, Montana
  2. ^ Kershner, Jim (August 20, 2010). "Great fire wiped out wild towns of Taft, Grand Forks". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). Retrieved December 9, 2019.
  3. ^ Description of Taft in 1939 from MTlinks.com
  4. ^ a b "Trail map". Route of the Hiawatha. Retrieved July 10, 2017.
  5. ^ a b "The Big Burn-Transcript". American Experience. PBS. February 3, 2015. Retrieved January 23, 2019.
  6. ^ "Loss in Montana". Spokane Daily Chronicle. (Washington). August 22, 1910. p. 8.
  7. ^ "Aged man a refugee". Spokane Daily Chronicle. (Washington). August 27, 1910. p. 1.

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