Carpenter's Bar, Montana was an early unincorporated community in Powell County, site of a post office from June–December 1872, with Thomas Pounds as postmaster.Roberta Carkeek Cheney: Names on the Face of Montana, The Story of Montana's Place Names, Mountain Press Publishing Company, Missoula, Mont., second edition, 1983, pp. 42-43. It was the site of a gold mine discovered on June 3, 1865.Helen Fitzgerald Sanders: A History of Montana, The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago and New York, 1913, p. 181, https://archive.org/details/historyofmontana01sand accessed 26 Sep 2013.
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