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Tag: logging

Logging McMannamy Draw

Posted on June 30, 2021 by skip

by Jeanine Buettner
nammy@montanasky.com

W.P. McMannamy Sr. moved from Missouri to Helena in the late 1880’s where he ran a sawmill for several years.  Then in 1890 he moved the machinery to Kalispell and started a planer mill, located on 7th Ave. West and 11th street.

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