McCarthyville, Montana

McCarthyville is an extinct town in Flathead County, in the U.S. state of Montana.[1]

History

McCarthyville was platted in 1890 by Eugene McCarthy, and named for him.[2] At its peak, McCarthyville held 1,000 inhabitants and 32 bars, and was plagued with violence.[3]

gollark: Why?
gollark: Well, guessing is hard, so I wanted to see if I could do automatic stylometric analysis.
gollark: <@!293066066605768714> Do you have the early code guessing rounds' data in a conveniently machine-readable format somewhere?
gollark: That's one for each publicly disclosed letter of the English alphabet!
gollark: Not ignored. Just deprioritized relative to the other one.

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: McCarthyville (historical)
  2. "Geographic names". Forest History Society. Archived from the original on 2019-06-18. Retrieved 3 July 2019.
  3. "The Toughest Town in Montana". Flathead Beacon. March 2017. Retrieved 4 July 2019.

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