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Lewistown, MT - History
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Welcome to the Lewistown Home page. The Lewistown Home page provides as much information as possible on Lewistown. Knowing Lewistown’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Lewistown’s Home page, you will also find Lewistown’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Lewistown has a population of 5923. 49.7% of Lewistown’s inhabitants are Male, and 50.3 are female. 42.4% of Lewistown is married and 66.2% own their own home. The Average Home price is $107,059, and the average rent is $728. Household median income in Lewistown is $34,065, and the individual median income is $22,725. Lewistown’s Ethnic is the following: White(92.9%), Hispanic(2.2%), Asian(1.6%), Native(1.6%), Other(1.6%), Black(1.3%), Multiple(1%), Pacific(0.1%).
The area was the territory of the Blackfoot Native Americans. In 1874, Fort Lewis was established there by Company "F" of the 7th U.S. Infantry to provide military protection for people traveling on the Carroll Trail, then the shortest route between Carroll, Montana and Helena. Lewistown is named after this fort.The first permanent settlers of Lewistown were Métis.
The Metis established Lewistown in 1879. Pierre Berger is credited with being the founder of Lewistown. Berger, along with his wife Judith Wilkie Berger, son Isadore Berger, Isaie Berger, Jean Baptiste Berger and Jacques Berger, as well as several other families made the trek into the Lewistown area in 1879.
Francis Janeaux came with the second group. Janeaux founded the first public school house in 1883. Lewistown became an incorporated city in 1899. Lewistown was the site of a gold rush when gold was discovered in the nearby Judith Mountains in 1880. Before the gold rush, Maiden was the largest city in central Montana.
When the gold supply ran out, many of the miners gained new employment in Lewistown and settled there permanently. Lewistown was the eastern terminus of the Montana Railroad which connected with Lombard, Montana, a distance of approximately 157 miles (253 km). The railroad connected with the national railway network via a connection with the Northern Pacific Railway at Lombard.
The Montana Railroad line was constructed between 1895 and 1903, and operated independently until 1908, when it was acquired by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad ("the Milwaukee Road").During World War II, in 1942 the US Army Air Corps established a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress training base just west of Lewistown to train aircrews for missions in North Africa and Europe.
The former airbase is now the Lewistown Municipal Airport, which is home to the last remaining Norden bombsight storage facility, used to keep the device safe from theft by enemy spies during World War II . The city park displays a Minuteman III ballistic missile.
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