Marysville Montana

The man the board names spent his fortune in Helena. Thomas Cruse, born in Ireland in 1836, reached Helena broke in July 1867, prospected alone for years, and named his claim here the Drumlummon after his home parish. He sold the mine to a British company in the 1880s and kept a share of its profits. From 1905 he gave more than $350,000 toward the Cathedral of St. Helena, and when he died in 1914 his was the first funeral held in the building he had helped to raise.

What the plaque says

Marysville Montana In 1870 the mining town of Marysville was established and named for the first pioneer woman here Mary Ralston by Thomas Cruse owner of the famous Drum Lummon mine By 1900 the Marysville mining district was reported to be the richest gold mining area in the world with a production of $ 60,000,000 one-half of which was taken from the Drum Lummon mine Other local rich gold mines also producing at that time were the Bald Mountain Bald Butte Empire Belmont Penobscot Gloster and Shannon The towns population at its peak was estimated to be 4000 residents they had the service of two railroads and 60 business establishments including 2 newspapers Erected by the Marysville Pioneers Association-1970

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Montana State Capitol — 17 mi
  A copper-domed capitol won in a copper kings' election, with a Russell painting that put the Salish at the center.
• Mann Gulch — 21 mi
  Thirteen markers on a grass slope above the Missouri, where a fire outran a crew of smokejumpers in 1949.
• Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site — 31 mi
  A Métis trader's 1862 house, a cattle king's headquarters, and a grandson who threw nothing away.

More markers nearby

• A Booming Little Place — steps away
• Over a Billion Years of Montana's Geologic History — 12 mi
• The Frenchwoman's Road — 13 mi
• The Mullan Road — 14 mi