A Thousand Smiles and a Million Memories Await You:
The Huntley Project Museum of Irrigated Agriculture tells the unique story of the Huntley Irrigation Project ("the Project"). With 10.4 acres, 18 homestead buildings, hundreds of farm implements, and thousands of other artifacts on display, the Museum interprets, preserves, restores, and portrays life on the Project from the early 1880s to the late 20th century. The display at Osborn Park has one of the largest collections of horse drawn machinery, early sugar beet equipment, corn, grain and hay mowers. Other displays include a tar paper shack, 2 school houses, an early day doctor's office, bank, and a horse barn made from sawed cottonwood.
The Project is the second oldest U.S. Bureau of Reclamation project (opened June 22nd 1907) in the United States. Geographically it is roughly 27 miles long and 5 miles wide - 35,000 acres platted from the town of Huntley (west) to the now vanished town of Bull Mountain (east). It is bounded on the east, north, and west by the long, curving arm of the Yellowstone River and to the south by the first rise in the foothills of the distant Pryor Mountains.
Currently undergoing complete restoration at the Museum is the First National Bank of Pompeys Pillar. The volunteers and staff are adding a tin ceiling, wainscoting, and refinishing the solid wood floor. The Bank was established in 1916, with L.L. Madland as President, and closed in 1928 after the grasshoppers and Mormon crickets decimated the crops at the start of the Depression.
The Museum archives hold the photographs and diaries of the homestead families, as well as newspapers and other materials from the early 1900s. The Museum also holds records of the Demonstration Farm and Experiment Station which is adjacent to the Museum, Bureau of Reclamation records and original land patents.
The Huntley Project Museum of Irrigated Agriculture is located approximately 18 miles northeast of Billings, MT, between Huntley, MT and Pompeys Pillar, off Highway 312. Driving east on I-94, take Exit 6, through Huntley, MT for 3 more miles on Highway 312. Driving west on I-94, take Exit 23 to the Pompeys Pillar landmark. Then drive west 12 miles on Highway 312.
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