Twin Bridges Orphanage/Montana State Orphans Home/Montana State Orphanage/Montana Children's Center/Montana State Children's Center

The Independent-Record. Newspaper. Helena, Montana · Monday, December 19, 1994 1A continues to 8A "An Idea Whose Time Has Come Again? Orphanage. State Home Remembered as Not All Bad". "Home Was a Good Thing for Helenan". Names mentioned:Maxine Thompson. Nora Morgan. Lloyd & Martha Brewer.

"Orphanage Reunion Touches Hearts". The Montana Standard. Mon, Jul 24, 1995 ·Page 1. Monument is dedicated to children who died there.

Ghost Adventures Television Show. Episode on Twin Bridges Orphanage. Travel Channel. Aired on 7 April 2017.

Destination Fear Television Show. Episode on Twin Bridges Orphanage. Travel Channel. Aired on 12 November 2021.

The Montana Standard. Newspaper. Butte, Montana. Sun, Nov 02, 2003 ·Page 1. "Helping Henry". Elderly man, Henry Lockwood, who grew up there now lives on the former site of the Twin Bridges Orphanage. Shirley Fogarty used to live there. John Liang owns the buildings.

"Film Partially Shot in Twin Bridges". Independent Record. Newspaper. Helena, Montana. Tuesay, July 31, 2018. A2. The film "Black Flowers" used the former administration building. Owner and resident is Leslie Adams. Location is allegedly haunted.

www.findagrave.com Montana State Orphanage a virtual cemetery created by a Marine's Daughter. 92 memorials. Burials of children of the Montana State Orphanage are in the Twin Bridges Cemetery. https://www.findagrave.com/virtual-cemetery/29294?page=1

https://www.mtpr.org/montana-news/2023-09-27/whats-the-story-behind-montanas-old-state-orphanage What's the story behind Montana's old state orphanage? Montana Public Radio | By Austin Amestoy, Nick Mott Published July 31, 2024 at 5:00 PM MDT Updated July 31, 2024 at 5:07 PM MDT

Facebook.com. The television show "Ghost Adventures" has a Facebook page. A post dated 26 Nov 2016 has a discussion of the episode about the Twin Bridges Orphanage. There is a photograph and the statement "116 documented deaths from 1897-1944".

https://my1035.com/this-haunted-childrens-home-is-one-of-montanas-creepiest-places/

facebook.com/TwinBridgesOrphanage

https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2696628/shoshoni-burial-site This is in Twin Bridges as well, but is not the same as the Twin Bridges Cemetery.

https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv81413 Montana Children's Center records, 1894-1984 Montana Children's Center---Montana Children's Center record---Dates 1894-1984 (inclusive)---Collection Number RS 95---Summary: These records (1894-1975) of the Montana Children's Center in Twin Bridges, and of its predecessor the State Orphans' Home, consist of executive board minutes, indexed records of children received at the center, financial records, blueprints, and miscellany. Access to children's records limited to individual or closest living relative. Access to adoption records allowed only with a court order from a Montana District Court. Contact State Archivist for details of access.