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Pony, Montana

We took a little road trip yesterday. It was just too pretty out to stay home and do chores. Bless Bruce's heart, he has been working in Eastern Montana for the last month, and driving back and forth the 400 miles between home and all the area in the northeastern region of the state. I must have looked shopworn, or cabin feverish or something, so when I mentioned I'd like to take a backroads drive toward Ennis and some of the little surrounding towns, he took pity and said he thought that would be a fun road trip. So, me with my cabin fever, and he with his flat rump, loaded up the poochies and off we went. They have a great antique store in Ennis, but I came out empty handed. Being a holiday weekend, it was packed in town, so we did a quick sweep through the most interesting shops, then got out of Dodge. We knew Virginia City would be tourist packed also, so headed the other direction to Harrison and Pony. Pony is an interesting little town; sort of a reclaimed ghost mining town. It seems quite a few folks live there, but stuff is a bit worn down from it's original grandeur 100+ years ago.

I don't know if this was a ranch house, or some type of business. Whatever it was, the shell left standing is very interesting.

This house is for sale, and looked still lived in. It was really treed in, so it's hard to show how it looked. It seemed to be an original brick home, then maybe later a clapboard home was built very closely, for probably a relative or something. Somewhere down the line it was decided to join the 2 homes, so a breezeway type structure now has both homes conjoined into one.

 

Anyway, both houses were good sized on their own, so together that makes a whopping big home! I would love to see the inside! (This is a P.S. – For anyone interested in seeing the inside of this house, and you really should because it is AWESOME, you can see it on Zillow or Realtor.com. Just type in, 1Willow Creek Road, Pony, MT 59747. I just found it and it's amazing! Do It!!!)

This building must have been a store of some sort, and looked to have been boarded up for a long time.

Pony was a mining community back in the day, and judging by a lot of the remaining homes and buildings, must have been fairly prosperous. Enough so that they had a pretty fancy bank in their little town.

 

The school is pretty big, so children from the town, and surrounding farms and ranches must all have attended here.

Someone lived in this little abode, tucked into all the greenery and with a little creek meandering through. I think a lot of “free spirits” have taken up residence here. The whole town in like stepping into the past.

The church seems to be quite new.

But many of the remaining homes are true antiquities.

There were some more modern touches here and there, but even these had an old-timely feel.

This sculpture served sentry over the town, and there were several smaller horse sculptures on the street below.

All in all, it made for a fun and interesting day. There is some family history here that I have to check with my Mom about. I know my Great Grandmother lived in Pony for a short while when she was a very little girl. I believe her Father was a miner at a place called “the Strawberry Mine”, if I'm not having pipe dreams. I'm lucky to have these interesting things in my own backyard, and it's always good to step out of the box once in a while.

TTFN,

Teresa 🙂

 

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