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- In 1846, the Deer Lodge Valley became part of the United States and Oregon Territory with the signing of the Oregon Treaty by the U. S. and Great Britain. From 1853 to 1863 it was in Washington Territory, then briefly part of Idaho Territory until the creation of Montana Territory in 1864. [b]
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In 1846, the Deer Lodge Valley became part of the United States and Oregon Territory with the signing of the Oregon Treaty by the U. S. and Great Britain. From 1853 to 1863 it was in Washington Territory , then briefly part of Idaho Territory until the creation of Montana Territory in 1864.
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Oct 24, 2023 · On November 19, 1867, the Legislative Assembly of Montana Territory approved the Deer Lodge site as the location for the Montana State Prison and funding commenced. In 1870, the construction of the Montana Territorial Prison began and it received its first prisoner in 1871.
Upon Statehood in 1889, the federal penitentiary at Deer Lodge became a state institution. The prison housed 198 inmates in a cell block built to hold no more than 140. Prisoners spilled over...
Cattle ranching came early to Montana with the entrepreneurship of Johnny Grant in the Deer Lodge Valley in the late 1850s, who traded fat cattle to settlers in exchange for two trail-worn (but otherwise healthy) animals.
It became a part of Idaho Territory in 1863 and on January 16, 1864, the County of Deer Lodge was established by the legislature of Idaho with the county seat located at Idaho City (near the Cottonwood Fork of the Deer Lodge River).
Montana became a state in November 1889, but the fledgling state had neither the will nor the money to assume possession of the prison until March 1890. The facility was a money-sink, costing over $2 per day per inmate to run, an eyesore, and an administerial nightmare.
