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St. Mary River Bridge & Siphon, Spanning St. Mary River, Babb, Glacier County, MT
Summary
Significance: The Reclamation Act of 1902 authorized the U.S. Reclamation Service of the Department of the Interior to undertake numerous irrigation projects to make arid land farmable. One of those projects in Montana was the Milk River Project intended to irrigate an estimated 250,000 acres. Most of the lands to be irrigated were along the Milk River from the point at which it re-enters the U.S. from Canada (NW of Havre) at the mouth of the Milk below Glasgow...
Survey number: HAER MT-22
Building/structure dates: 1915 Initial Construction
Tags
Date
1915 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Minneapolis Bridge Company
Murphy, Kevin, transmitter
Lowe, Jet, photographer
Quivik, Fredric, historian
Jandoli, Liz, transmitter
Location
Babb, 48.86026, -113.43676
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
