Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Cascade, MT

Cascade is an incorporated town in Cascade County, Montana, one of the few American towns that shares its exact name with its county, set along the Missouri River southwest of Great Falls.

Cascade was incorporated in 1911, and its population was 600 at the 2020 census, down from a peak of 819 in 2000; at the 2010 census the town had 287 households.

The townsite formed to serve Montana Central Railway workers on the west bank of the Missouri River and was originally named Dodge; it renamed itself Cascade in 1887 in an appeal to become the seat of the newly formed Cascade County, an honor that ultimately went to Great Falls.

Town founder Thomas Gorham was Cascade's first mayor and first postmaster and owned the Gorham General Store.

Western artist Charles M. Russell met his future wife, Nancy Cooper, while visiting Cascade, and the couple lived in what is now the Charlie and Nancy Russell Honeymoon Cabin, a property listed on the National Register of Historic Places and open for public viewing.

Mary Fields, known as "Stagecoach Mary" and the first Black woman employed as a star route mail carrier in the United States, delivered mail between Cascade and the nearby St. Peter's Mission from 1895 to 1903.

St. Peter's Mission, founded by Jesuit priests in the 1860s, once included boys' and girls' schools and residences; today only a small chapel and its cemetery remain.

Atkinson Park in Cascade offers a pool, playground, skate park, and free camping, and honors J. Robert Atkinson, founder of the Braille Institute of America, who moved to the Cascade area as a teenager.

The Wedsworth Memorial Library was created under the 1915 will of rancher Augustus Wedsworth, who also funded a gymnasium for the town.

Nearby Tower Rock State Park marks the entrance to the Missouri River canyon, a landmark used by Native American tribes and noted by the Lewis and Clark Expedition.