Camp Four (Fort Smith, Montana)

Camp Four on Campbell Farm, about 12 miles (19 km) from Fort Smith, Montana, is nationally significant for its association with Thomas D. Campbell, "once the world's largest wheat farmer", and "a pioneer in industrialized corporate farming methods." It is the best preserved of two permanent camps, which along with six temporary camps, served the wheat farm during the period from 1918 to the 1960s.[2]

Camp Four
Nearest cityFort Smith, Montana
Coordinates45°24′50″N 107°53′43″W
Built1920
NRHP reference No.91001940[1]
Added to NRHPJanuary 21, 1992

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.[1] It has 12 buildings and three other structures, including five bunkhouses, two commissaries, a workshop, a water tank, a "cowboy house" and an "oil house."[2]

See also
  • Thomas D. Campbell House, in Grand Forks, North Dakota, log cabin and wood-frame house that was Thomas Campbell's childhood home, also NRHP-listed

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. Chere Jiusto (July 1991). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Camp Four". National Park Service. Retrieved January 4, 2016. with 23 photos from 1991


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