Granite - A Montana Ghost Town - near Philipsburg, Montana MT

Granite - A Montana Ghost Town - near Philipsburg, Montana MT

High above a valley floor in western Montana, you will find the ghost town of Granite, four miles southeast of Philipsburg at 8,000-foot elevation. In 1896, Granite was the world's largest silver mine. The company actually sent a 4,307-pound bar of silver to the World's Fair in Chicago to showcase the area's riches.

The town prospered with over 3,000 residents. Granite had a Miners Union Hall (that held pool tables, a library, and the Northwest's finest dance floor), several banks, four churches, and a school. It also included a weekly newspaper, a brewery and soda pop bottling facility, restaurants, hotels, a bathhouse, a hospital with five doctors, a roller-skating rink, the lodges of three fraternal orders, and hosted traveling theater companies.

Granite also had a water system, named streets, many homes but no cemetery due to the rocky nature of the mountain. No frontier town was complete without saloons and brothels; eighteen to be exact!

Today nature has overtaken the town of Granite. Most of its buildings are gone; some moved, others consumed by fire. The few structures that remain have been stabilized or in ruins. The town is full of granite foundations, an indication of a prosperous time past.

This video was captured in May 2013 with my good friend Jay and a Canon Vixia HFS-100 camera, a GoPro Hero3 black camera, and a indiSLIDERmini. It was edited with Adobe Premier Pro 6.

Music is "Lightless Dawn" by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a CC Attribution 3.0.
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And "Amazing Grace 2011" by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a CC Attribution 3.0.
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And "Frozen Star" http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-....

And "Tenebrous Brothers Carnival -- Prelude" http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-....