Preserve Broadwater History, Inc. , the Broadwater County Museum/Broadwater Historical Society and Radersburg Historic Preservation, Inc. have joined together to provide a comprehensive opportunity to learn about the history of Broadwater County, Montana.
Local Townsend resident Shelley Douthett is an author and a historian buff. In the past couple of years Shelley has started to maintain the Centerville Cemetery located just north of Townsend. Shelley has been writing articles published in the MT43News newspaper about her efforts to cleanup the cemetery; restore grave stones; and she has done extensive research on the people that have been buried in the Centerville Cemetery.
On April 29, 2026 the Townsend Schools 7th Grade Class visited Radersburg.
The Broadwater County Museum and Historical Society is busy getting ready for the 2025 season. The museum will open on Thursday, May 15, 2025, at 1:00 p.m.
In August of 1877, George Cowan of Radersburg, and party, including his wife and several others went on an adventure to Yellowstone Park. They camped there for several days and on the morning of August 24 prepared to be on the road home. During this preparation, they were approached by a group of Nez Perce Indians. More and more Indians came until the party hitched up their teams, got into the wagons and started for home.
On April 30 2025
, Preserve Broadwater History, the Broadwater County Museum and Radersburg Historical Preservation, Inc. (RHPI) hosted the Townsend Schools 7th grade class's 5th annual outing at the historic Radersburg School.
The 7th grade class is the class that studies Montana History and Radersburg has a very rich history!
Preserve Montana and Preseve Broadwater History are hosting a workshop on restoring historic buildings focusing on the Johnson Schoolhouse.
The workshop is a full day meeting starting at 9:00am on March 29 at the American Legion Hall. Lunch will be provided.
Topics will include:
Mark your calendars for January 13th, to attend
a special Night tour at the Broadwater County
Museum with Museum Curator, Linda Huth.
Linda is the Author of the entertaining
Broadwater County column ‘This Week in
History’ and an expert in local history. This
event is sponsored by The Old Baldy Adult
Education Program.
On May 13 2024, the Townsend Middle School students came to Radersburg for the third annual history outing. The Townsend Seventh grade students study Montana history. Radersburg is has an extremely interesting history: once the county seat for Jefferson County and a hub of industry and travel for southwest Montana.
Preserve Broadwater History, the Broadwater County Museum and Radersburg Historical Preservation, Inc. joined together to co-sponsor the second annual Radersburg History Outing.
On April 27, the Townsend Schools 7th Grade Class (the class studying Montana History) visited historic Radersburg in Broadwater County.
The outing was co-sponsored by Preserve Broadwater History, Radersburg Historical Preservation, Inc. and the Broadwater Historical Society.
The students arrived at the historic Radersburg School (built in 1913) where Linda Huth (Broadwater County Museum Curator) made a presentation on the history of Radersburg. Afterwards they were treated to hamburgers, chips, cookies and water.
Day-In-History: Articles written by Linda Huth, Broadwater County Museum Curator that feature news items that happened on a specific day in history.
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The "Day-In-History" articles are published in the MT43 News - Townsend's preeminent newspaper. To learn more about MT43 News visit the paper's website at mt43news-business-services.com
Whispers Of The Past
Local Townsend resident Shelley Douthett is an author and a historian buff. In the past couple of years Shelley has started to maintain the Centerville Cemetery located just north of Townsend. Shelley has been writing articles published in the MT43News newspaper about her efforts to cleanup the cemetery; restore grave stones; and she has done extensive research on the people that have been buried in the Centerville Cemetery.
Preserve Broadwater History is proud to publish her articles on our website. She will continue to publish in MT43News and we will republish here articles here.
Click on Whispers Of The Past to view her articles.
Yester Year: Articles written by a variety of authors and published in the MT43 News community newspaper
Click on Yester Year to view the articles
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The "Yester Year" articles are published in the MT43 News - Townsend's preeminent newspaper. To learn more about MT43 News visit the paper's website at mt43news-business-services.com