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Image Courtesy of Beaverhead County Records
Original Town Plat Map of Glendale Recorded February 3, 1880
 (also shown are Desert Land Claims)
 

Original Sketch of John T. Longley's Desert Land Claim August 17, 1878 (Two years prior to townsite)

GlendaleGlendale's Upper "Highland Park additiion" Town Plat Map dated May 19, 1880

Map of  1883 showing Glendale, Montana's "once prominent place" in early Montana history. (Also shown is Hecla)

Dewey, Vipond, Glendale, and Melrose 1885

By 1888, Glendale is depicted on maps as being a thriving and prosperous Community rivaling Butte City and Helena.
Less than a decade later, The town would start to decline and eventually fade away into Mining Camp history.

 
1890                                                                          1895
 

1898 Map shows Hecla, Glendale, Melrose, and Browne's (Browne's Bridge)
Joseph A. Browne operated a toll bridge which crossed the Big Hole.

(1907) After the turn of the century, Most of the towns which made up the Bryant Mining District, disappeared from the maps and "literally"

Sanborn Fire Map 1891,
showing Glendale's fire suppression system

Fires which broke out in these early mining camps were often catastrophic given the close proximity
 of the buildings and the building materials. Glendale was no exception, having seen it's share of fires.

Sanborn Fire Map Legend

Main Street (Inset of larger map)

Statistics (Inset of larger map)

Hecla Consolidated Mining Company operations at Glendale (Inset from larger map)