Saint Regis
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A view from 1939:
ST. REGIS, (2,678 alt., 300 pop.), is composed of
straggling clumps of buildings amid convergent railroad tracks.
Its center is a bridge across the Clark Fork. Once an important
sawmill town, it dwindled to a supply point for small logging
operators after the great forest fire that swept western Montana
in August 1910.
The St. Regis River, which comes from the west to join the
Clark Fork here, was named by Father De Smet in 1842, in honor
of St. Regis, a brother Jesuit.
Source: Montana: A State Guide Book; Compiled and Written
by the Federal Writers' Project of the Work Projects Administration
for the State of Montana; September, 1939. |