Sidney, Montana pictures on MontanaPictures.net (Page one of eleven)
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| 80406 August is County Fair time in Montana. We came to Sidney to see one of the best little fairs in Montana, | ||
| "The Richland County Fair and Rodeo" held the first week of August. Before we visit the fair, | ||
| let's walk down Sidney's Central Avenue and take a look around. | ||
| (Please scroll to the right to see the view.) | ||
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| 80406 Walking down Sidney's S. Central Ave. we pass Central Park. There's a statue of former Montana Governor Donald G. Nutter. | ||
| Governor Nutter, who was from Sidney, served as governor from 1960-1962. | ||
| He was a WWII veteran, a former state senator and former state chairman of the Montana Republican Party. | ||
| Governor Nutter, his chief of staff, the agriculture commissioner and three Air National Guardsmen were killed in a plane crash in | ||
| Wolf Creek Canyon on January 1962. (Click on the picture above for another view of the statue.) | ||
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| 80406 The old steam locomotive in Sidney's Central Park reminds us that this is sugar beet country. | ||
| The Sidney sugar beet factory opened in January, 1925. | ||
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| We'll make take a quick look at the Beet fields around Sidney, Montana |
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