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While scouting the Gallatin Valley for just the right area to grow malting barley, Henry Altenbrand and several New York businessmen decided in 1890 that the real estate around Moreland, Montana, 20 miles northwest of Bozeman, would suffice. In 1891 they renamed the town Manhattan (latitude 45.86 N, longitude 111.33 W, elevation, 4,243 feet), making it the center of their operations and created the Manhattan Malting Company, composed of 13,000 acres of land dedicated to barley production. They then invested money to create the West Gallatin Irrigation Company, which purchased 28,000 Northern Pacific grant lands.

The town was platted with the malting industry in mind and included grain elevators and a malting house. Most of the malt was sent back East by train, though some stayed in Montana for local brewers. The remaining straw from the barley harvest was tried in the paper-making procees at the Gallatin Valley Pulp and Paper Mill, but the straw's high level of silicon made for an inferior grade of paper, which failed in the national paper market.

The labor for the barley and irrigation operations mostly came from the Netherlands and by 1893 a sufficient supply of Dutch had settled in the region to sustain this new, water intensive industry. With the creation of a railroad spur and an overflow of Dutch settlers in Manhattan, the town of Amsterdam, Montana, also mostly composed of Dutch settlers, formed in 1911 with many homes built on the rolling realty a few miles to the south. To this day, Amsterdam has never been incorporated and, thus, still receive its mail via the Manhattan, Montana zip code.In 1950 seed potato farming began and in the ensuing years it has grown to be recognized as one of Manhattan's major agricultural products. Local seed farmers sell their potatoes locally and nationally, making Manhattan, Amsterdam, and Churchill, Montana the potato capital of Montana. Today, pototoes, dairy, wheat, and beef are the surrounding area's main agricultural products. If you would like more information on this magnificent region, please feel free to call me, your Manhattan, Montana Realtor, 406.579.9683.

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Manhattan, Montana has retained the small town, ranching aura that has characterized the west for decades. Manhattan will also become the home of the greenest development in the Rocky Mountain region and Montana's first fully sustainable "green community," Amsterdam Village, which will have single family residential lots and homes, townhomes, neighborhood commercial, and an independent living retirement center. Call me, 406.579.9683, for more information on Amsterdam Village in Manhattan, MT.

Manhattan welcomes families, is a darling little enclave surrounded by farm and ranch acreage, recreational property, and open land. The region is home to world-class fly-fishing, hunting, golfing, horseback-riding, rafting, skiing, hiking, sight-seeing, camping, birding, and a host of other sports, recreational, and retirement opportunities.

Soon Manhattan will be home to a vibrant green development community, only 25 minutes from Bozeman, Montana. Live in Manhattan, work in Bozeman, receive the best of both country and small city life!