Loma’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Loma. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗James Kipp, of the American Fur Company, founded the first community here in 1831. The Blackfeet laid siege to the fort, and the inhabitants quickly abandoned the site. The next year, the American Fur Company established another trading post, Fort McKenzie, a few miles upstream of the old site. During the 1860s, businessmen built a townsite called Ophir near the confluence of the Marias and the Missouri rivers. On May 25, 1865, the Blackfeet killed 10 men in the developing town.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Loma’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Loma’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewGrain storage elevators, freight …, 1941: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Loma, decade by decade
1990s
Nothing in Loma is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Loma has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Virgelle Mercantile and Virgelle State Bank in Loma, 11.9 miles away.
Loma and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Grain storage elevators, freight car and railroad station. Loma, Montana (1941) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (4) and the Library of Congress (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.