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Looking
Back:
A Pictorial History of the Flathead Valley
by Kathryn L. Mckay
Chapter
3
1905-1917
Community Building
Transportation
Agriculture and
Forest Homesteads
Community Life
Glacier National Park
Forest Fires
Logging
Swan Lake Timber Sale
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| Charles
E. Conrad residence, 316 Sixth Avenue East, Kalispell, 1907. Conrad,
a friend of James J. Hill of the Great Northern Railway, was a prominent
businessman in Kalispell until his death in 1902. The shingle-style
dwelling was designed by Kirkland Cutter of Spokane, and the twenty-three-room
residence is now open for guided tours during the summers. |
Bigfork
power plant and penstock, circa 1910. The hydroelectric dam and
power plant provided power to Kalispell and other communities. The
Northern Idaho & Montana Power Company took it over in 1909
and built a diversion dam that carried water from the Swan River
in a flume to a penstock 105' above the turbine. |
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| Great Northern
depot in Kalispell, looking northeast, circa 1912. In October 1904,
the Great Northern relocated its route west of Columbia Falls. The
railroad division point moved to the new town of Whitefish, putting
Kalispell on a spur line. Railroaders nicknamed Kalispell "Fishhook"
because it was at the end of the line. Kalispell residents, in turn,referred
to Whitefish as "Suckerville." Local trains known as the
Kalispell "Dinky" and the "Galloping Goose"
carried passengers between Whitefish, Columbia Falls, and Kalispell
until 1951. |
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