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6,797
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$56,902
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Laurel, MT - History
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Welcome to the Laurel Home page. The Laurel Home page provides as much information as possible on Laurel. Knowing Laurel’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Laurel’s Home page, you will also find Laurel’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Laurel has a population of 6797. 48.5% of Laurel’s inhabitants are Male, and 51.5 are female. 53.1% of Laurel is married and 68.1% own their own home. The Average Home price is $175,649, and the average rent is $835. Household median income in Laurel is $56,902, and the individual median income is $31,846. Laurel’s Ethnic is the following: White(94.4%), Multiple(3.7%), Hispanic(3.1%), Asian(1.1%), Native(0.5%), Other(0.2%).
Before Laurel became a city or a community, people passed through the site during the gold rush period, when gold was discovered at the Clarks Fork headwaters. They came by team and wagon, and by small steamer vessels up the Yellowstone River. The government was in the process of planning a railroad to the west coast, and had surveying crews out to map the country on the most direct route.
Many of the prospectors that went west in search of gold, felt gold might be found in other parts of the state, so some returned to the Yellowstone Valley, and others came from the East to settle here. However, this did not take place until after the Custer Massacre in 1876. It was not until 1877 that the white man felt safe in the Yellowstone Valley, after the power of the Sioux was broken.
So it was that while the memory of the Massacre of General Custer and his Command on the Little Big Horn River was still fresh in the minds of settlers of Montana, that a little community was established in the Yellowstone Valley.The history of Laurel began when settlers began making their homes in the vicinity in 1879.
There was a section house built that served as a depot and post office, situated about where Hobo Hill is, or near the center of the present railroad yards east of Laurel. The railroad pushed closer to Laurel from the east, up the Yellowstone Valley during the summer of 1882. Up to this time, there were about 200 people in the community.
With the advent of the railroad, the population grew to 368 in 1900, 806 in 1910, and 2,338 in 1920. Laurel was originally known as the station of Carlton, however by 1883, its name was changed to Laurel, after a local shrub. The post office was established in 1886. Laurel was considered a town in 1906, but it was not until August 1908 that it became incorporated, and two months later, on October 10, 1908, city government was established with the election of a city council and mayor.
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