EXHIBITS

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Enjoy our temporary rotating exhibits and regularly refreshed displays illustrating the history of our county.
The Jefferson County Museum features both temporary exhibits and permanent displays. Our rotating exhibits change about once or twice a year. Themes most related to our county history often include mining, railroads and ranching.

Current Exhibits

& Jefferson County Marriages

Special Features:
Collection of Beautiful Wedding Dresses

Historic Jefferson County wedding photos

​Early Marriage documents

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Mining Mills    of  the West
 This exhibit of 32 black and white photographs explores the American West's abandoned historic mining mills--the unintended monuments to man's former strivings to extract metals from the earth. These views were taken by Lee Silliman, a devoted, large format (8x10 inch view camera) photographer who searches for the scraps of history that have not yet turned to dust. The majority of the images depict Montana mills from places such as Coolidge, Hughesville, Pony, and Comet, while also including a few out- of-state gems from California and Nevada. Some of these structures have since been torn down. The exhibit is annotated with historical commentary, which offers further insight into our western mining heritage.  Remember: Almost every object we use ultimately comes out of the ground! 
Lee Silliman will be speaking on October 14, 2023 from 1:00p-2:00p at the Jefferson County Museum Meeting Room.
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HOPE IN HARD TIMES
New Deal photos of MT
Guest exhibit from the MT Historical Society
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JEFFERSON COUNTY COURTHOUSE DISPLAY
Winning Posters from the "Homestead Fever" poster contest
​Apron History
Logging and Timber

PHOTO CREDITS & INFO
Header Photo: (top)
Marks Ranch Roundup
(Lump Gulch/Clancy)
1933

Photo compliments of
Robert "Bob" Marks
Merle Marks (1902-1960) is the rider on the right. (Merle is Bob's father.) Photo was taken facing SW in a field north of the Lump Gulch Road, between the Marks barn and Prickly Pear Creek. Original.
​406-224-5106
​​5 North Main Street
Clancy, MT 59634
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