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Bannack, Montana
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The Meade Hotel is the best-known building in Bannack, Montana's first territorial capital and now a state park ghost town. The brick building went up in 1875 as the Beaverhead County courthouse. When the county seat moved to Dillon in 1881, Dr. John Meade bought it and turned it into a hotel, which closed in the 1940s. Bannack's best-known ghost story is that of Dorothy Dunn, a 16-year-old who drowned in a dredge pond in August 1916. Her friend Bertie, whose parents ran the hotel, later saw Dorothy upstairs in a long blue dress, and other visitors have since reported a girl in blue at the hotel's windows, along with cold spots.
Part of Bannack State Park, open to visitors year-round with a day-use fee. Many buildings can be explored in warmer months, and the park hosts seasonal events.
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