| This river ran alongside the road for quite a distance, so I decided to stop and take a picture for some reason. While I didn't see any flooding, the rivers were flowing pretty quickly. |
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| So, I was planning to see the ghost town of Granite, which is very near the town of Philipsburg. |
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| Since it is another town with old buildings, I stopped and took some photos. The historic district is listed in the National Registry of Historic Places. |
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| The Sayrs Building was built in 1888 and used to house the First National Bank. |
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| The Kaiser House was a grand hotel built in 1881 by Michael Kaiser. It boasted a fine bar, billiard room and a $0.50 T-bone steak. |
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| Built in 1887 by Colonel J.W. Morse, Morse Hall was a public lecture hall that also served as a county courthouse, an opera house, town hall, library and general community center. |
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| This building did not have a marker on it, so I don't know what it is or was. But it looks old and Western, so it's good enough for me. |
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| Financed by a $30,000 bond, the old Philipsburg Grade School was dedicated in 1896. |
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| Google Maps on my phone wanted to take me on some really dodgy narrow unpaved roads, if I can even call them roads. |
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| I decided to turn around, which was not easy, and head back before I ended up like this car. |
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 Silver Lake. I don't know why I decided to stop and take a picture. It's just a lake like any other. |
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| As I was driving through a town called Anaconda I noticed this giant smoke stack on a hill. When I investigated later, I found out (according to Wikipedia) that it is the largest surviving masonry structure in the world. Erected in 1918, It was a brick smoke stack for the Washoe Smelter of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company. The smelter closed in 1981 and the stack is now part of a state park. |
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