Dunphy Block

Historical marker location:

38 South Last Chance Gulch, Helena, Montana

( Marker is on South Last Chance Gulch near East Broadway Street, on the left when traveling north.)

Helena Historic District.

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.