Bannack is a ghost town in Beaverhead County, Montana, United States, located on Grasshopper Creek, approximately 11 miles upstream from where Grasshopper Creek joins with the Beaverhead River south o
Main street in Bannack
Schoolhouse and Masonic Lodge
Methodist Church, built in 1877
Virginia City is a town in and the county seat of Madison County, Montana, United States. Virginia City was the territorial capital of Montana from 1865 to 1875. In 1961 the town and the surrounding a
Bannack, Montana
…Bannack was the site of a major gold discovery in 1862, and served as the capital of Montana Territory briefly in 1864, until the capital was moved to Virginia City. Bannack continued as a mining town, though with a dwindling population. The last residents left in the 1970s. At its peak, Bannack had a population…
Downtown Virginia City in May 2026
Thomas Francis Meagher House, Virginia City
Virginia City from Alder Gulch in the late 1890s, by Charles Roscoe Savage
Gilbert Brewery, Wallace Street, Virginia City, founded in 1866 by Henry S. Gilbert (1833–1902)