Historical Marker

Colter’s Run

Historical marker location:
110 North Main Street, Three Forks, Montana
( Marker is at the intersection of North Main Street (State Highway 2) and Cottonwood Street, on the right when traveling south on North Main Street.)

The Second Marker. The Headwaters of the Missouri 1808.

Montana was the first state to elect a woman to Congress, Jeannette Rankin, who was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1916. She was a pacifist and voted against the entry of the United States into both World War I and World War II.