Frenchtown Community

Settled in 1857, Frenchtown is one of Montana’s earliest communities. Appearing ahead of the Montana gold rushes and in advance of the railroad, many of Frenchtown’s settlers were closely-connected to the fur trade and many were French-Canadians or ...

Frenchtown Historic Community

In 1831, historic plantations, churches, homesteads, educational institutions, businesses and residences filled this area.

The community has long been occupied by free people of color and other persons of African descent. Following the Civil War many freed slaves migrated into ...

Frenchtown Veterans Monument

To honor those who fought to preserve our freedoms, the Citizens of Frenchtown dedicate these memorials to our valiant dead. Let us also dedicate them to the living ... and to the promise of the future.

Marker is on Harrison Street, ...

St. Raphael's Frenchtown Cemetery

Final resting place of early French emigrants and their descendants.

Coming directly to the Montrose-Belleville community from St. Germain in eastern France, 32 families arrived beginning in the early 1850's. Unique and isolated, the group prospered and grew, numbering nearly 500 ...

British Victory at Frenchtown

From near this spot on Jan. 22, 1813, 525 British soldiers and Canadian militiamen from Fort Malden under Col. Henry Proctor and some 800 Indians under Chiefs Roundhead and Walk-In-The-Water launched a pre-dawn attack on the sleeping American camp a ...

Frenchtown

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Town takes its name from the many French families that followed Paul Henri Mallet-Prevost, a Swiss refugee from the French Revolution who moved here in 1794.

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Called "Sunbeam" in 1759. Later Sherrard's Ferry. Present name for Prevost family, refugees from the ...

Frenchtown Methodist Episcopal Church

Congregation was formed in 1832 and met in a room on Bridge Street. This church erected in 1844 and enlarged in 1861.

Marker is on 3rd Street, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Frenchtown World War 1 Monument

Spirit of the American Doughboy

This tablet is erected as a tribute to the men of Frenchtown who served on the Great World War. 1917-1918

Marker is on Harrison Street, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Frenchtown Railroad

The Belvidere-Delaware Railroad c.1853.

Later leased to the Penn R. R. System, the line allowed transit of Lehigh & Hudson R. R. passenger trains.

Marker is on Bridge Street, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Frenchtown Railroad Sleepers

These stones were sleepers in the New Castle and Frenchtown Railroad. Completed in 1831. The first railroad in Delaware and one of the first in the United States.

Marker is on the median between Market Street and 2nd Street near Harmony ...