The Turner family spends time together on the shore of Flathead Lake near Lakeside in the late 1930s. (Courtesy of Turner Treks and Tales / www.turnertreks.net)
June 27, 2020
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June 28, 2020 3:55 a.m.
Town celebrates 100 years on shore of Flathead Lake
In 1883, with the completion of the Great Northern Railroad, settlers began to arrive in Flathead County. They came with dreams of starting a new life, of homesteading the great and wild West, or had other destinations in mind, but stopped prematurely in the shadows of glacial mountains, enraptured by the beauty around them.