Park celebrates 100th anniversary

A recreation area considered by many to be a hidden gem of the region turns 100 today.

Sept. 7, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed into law the bill that turned part of the military reservation of Fort Assinniboine into a recreation area that would become Hill County's Beaver Creek Park.

The creation of that area was tacked on to a bill more decades in the making - the creation of Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation also using part of the military reservation of the fort, which was decommissioned in 1911.

The band of Chippewa led by Chief Rocky Boy, or Stone Child, had moved west from Penn...