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MONTANA
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
| Broadwater
had a financial interest in the Helena Electric Railway
Company, which
ran streetcars from Helena west to the resort, and also
to the nearby Kessler
Brewery and Central Park. The tracks ran between present-day
Knight and Choteau Streets. |
MONTANA
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Streetcar in downtown Helena. Looking
north from the 300 block of N. Last Chance Gulch
Trolley line from Broadwater to Central Park - ca. 1908
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
| This
view looks north, across Ten Mile Creek from the resort
grounds. The trolley line shown (on what is now Spring
St.) connected the Broadwater to Central Park, located where
the Green Meadow Country Club is today. The popular park
boasted a beer garden, roller and ice skating rinks, a dance
pavillion, a carousel, and a zoo. |
H. E.
R. C. stock certificate - 1890s
Looking
west toward the resort grounds - 1980s.
Abandoned rail beds parallel Broadwater Avenue.
The natatorium stood just beyond the trees in the center
of the photo. |
PRIVATE
COLLECTION
Auto camp
cabins - 1927
PRIVATE COLLECTION
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