Commercial Hotel

Historical marker location:

807 Main Street, Forsyth, Montana

( Marker is at the intersection of Main Street and North 8th Avenue, on the right when traveling west on Main Street.)

Forsyth Main Street 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.