Sorenson Residence

Historical marker location:

510 North 12th Avenue, Forsyth, Montana

( Marker is at the intersection of North 12th Avenue and Oak Street, on the left when traveling north on North 12th Avenue.)

Forsyth Residential 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.