Historical Marker
Forsyth Residential Historic District
Historical marker location:
1300 Main Street, Forsyth, Montana
( Marker is on Main Street near 13th Avenue, on the right when traveling west.)
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.