{"id":33340,"count":1,"description":"Gold Creek is a creek in southwestern Montana, United States, on Interstate 90 northwest of Garrison, between Butte and Missoula. It flows through parts of Granite County and Powell County and empties into the Clark Fork (river) at the ghost town of Goldcreek 46\u00b035\u203212\u2033N 112\u00b055\u203243\u2033W\ufeff \/ \ufeff46.58667\u00b0N 112.92861\u00b0W\ufeff \/ 46.58667; -112.92861, northwest of the town of Garrison.\nIn 1852, a trapper named Francois Finlay, who was also known as Benetsee, found the first recorded gold in what is now Montana in what he named Benetsee Creek. However, not enough gold was found to make mining commercially viable.\nIn 1858, prospectors James and Granville Stuart and Reese Anderson discovered gold in the creek. The three men didn't have sufficient tools do begin excavating, and were unable to return with the proper equipment until 1862. The creek was renamed \"Gold Creek\" because of the gold found there. The Stuart brothers and their prospecting party helped open up Western Montana to settlers, all due to...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/gold-creek\/","name":"Gold Creek","slug":"gold-creek","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/33340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=33340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}