Grasshopper Creek
📍 Dillon, Beaverhead County🧭 45.16680, -113.00750
Marker Inscription
In midsummer, 1862, John White and party discovered gold on this creek several miles down stream. The first major gold rush to what is now Montana resulted.
Erected by Montana State Parks.
Further reading
Grasshopper Creek — full narrative — John White’s July 1862 placer strike on Grasshopper Creek and the rush that built Bannack.