Helena History comes alive with two new guided tours
The idea of time travel may seem pretty appealing for many, especially after making it through 2020.
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A fire broke out Monday morning at the historic Lissner Mansion in Helena. The call came in to the Helena Fire Department at 10:43 a.m., with dispatchers saying neighbors had reported seeing smoke come from the roof. Helena fire Chief Ken Wood said the fire started in an upstairs bedroom, burned through the attic and into the roof. There was no one in the house when firefighters arrived and all occupants have been accounted for. Firefighters respond a fire inside the Lissner Mansion on State St. on Monday. THOM BRIDGE, Independent Record The cause of the blaze had yet to be...
The Helena branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis celebrates its 100-year anniversary Monday, and bank leadership and employees say their community involvement and advocacy work will make the next century just as successful.  The branch's original single-story building on the corner of Park Avenue and Edwards Street went up in 1910 and housed the Helena Automatic Telephone Company and Foidel Undertaking Company before becoming the Federal Reserve Branch Bank in 1921, at which point a second story was added, according to Helena history website Helena as She Was (www.helenahis...