- Logan, Montana
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footnotes =Logan is a town in Gallatin County,
Montana ,United States . The population was 73 at the 2000 census.History
Logan is situated on the
Gallatin River and was established in 1889 as a railroad station on the Northern Pacific and Montana (later theNorthern Pacific Railway ). (Logan is located on today'sMontana Rail Link .)During construction period the settlement was referred to as Canyon House, due to a house of that name which was here at that time. The name of Logan was adopted on
November 26 ,1889 . The name is in honor of CaptainWilliam Logan , who came to Montana in 1872, taking part in General Baker’s campaign against the Indians in 1872 to 1876.In 1877, Captain Logan accompanied General Gibbon on the expedition which resulted in the
Battle of the Big Hole onAugust 9 ,1877 , where he met his death. His wife’s name as Miss Odelia Furlong.It is noted that [the] right-of-way of the Northern Pacific here was acquired from Odelia Logan. The owners of the town site were William D. Flowers and Mary E. Flowers. Their certificate is dated
October 20 ,1892 . The plat was filed onJune 10 ,1893 .Logan was an important junction on the Northern Pacific's Rocky Mountain Division, where westbound trains could diverge north to the line to
Helena, Montana andMullan Pass , or south toButte, Montana , viaHomestake Pass . In addition, the Northern Pacific operated a secondary freight-only line between Logan andBozeman, Montana from the 1920s through the 1950s. This was eventually made redundant by the use ofdiesel locomotives such as theEMD FT on the Northern Pacific and the alternate route was subsequently removed.Until the 1930s Logan was home to a six-stall
roundhouse , as well as coal and water facilites which supported the Northern Pacific'ssteam locomotives . The roundhouse burned down in a fire in December, 1932, destroying or damaging at least three steam locomotives. Photographs of this event can be seen in the Ronald V. Nixon Collection at theMuseum of the Rockies in Bozeman.The call letters for Logan's
telegraph office were "CH". It was located approximately 1,120 miles from the NP's terminus inSt. Paul, Minnesota . Its elevation is 4,087 feet.References
* Northern Pacific Railway. "Place Names Manuscript," no date.
* Ronald V. Nixon Collection,
Museum of the Rockies ,Bozeman, Montana .
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