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Fort Benton hosts annual Summer Celebration
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and last updated 2021-06-26 23:52:14-04
FORT BENTON â The annual Summer Celebration in Fort Benton is always a busy, fun-filled weekend. But in the summer of 2021, thereâs an extra celebratory mood.
Fort Benton hosts annual Summer Celebration
This summer marked the 175th birthday of Fort Benton, known as the Birthplace of Montana. Historian Ken Robison said this yearâs event was a great time to remember the town s historical importance as an 1800s crossroads in the fur trade, mining routes, and steamboat travel up the Missouri River from St. Louis. It s the birthplace and it played in every era Montana history. Some places like Virginia City were big in the mining era, and so on. But Fort Benton had a role to play, sometimes the biggest role, sometimes just a major role in every year of Montana history. And that s what makes it fun,â Robison said.
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