In Drummond one will find a grocery store, two gas stations/convenience stores, a quilting store, three motels, two bars, three restaurants, plus a drive in. Amentiies include an impressive library, a health center, a bank & post office, fire department and ambulance as well as a senior citizens center.
One of those restaurants is
Country Bumpkins, a nice cafe offering home style cooking. Around the diner are wagon wheels, wooden watering troughs, agricultural implements, a road grader, even an old McCormick Deering 10-20 Tractor. Beside the tractor are an old side delivery mower and this dump rake.
Dump rakes were so named because, after its accompanying side delivery mower had cut the grass or hay and it been given a few days to dry, the dump rake would be pulled through the field, gathering hay as it went. Every few yards, the ground driven mechanism of the rake would lift the rake tines, "dumping" its load of hay in a small pile. Later the farmer (and helpers) would load the small stacks onto a hay wagon with pitchforks, than haul the load of hay to where ever they were building the haystack.
If one happens to be passing by on the July 4th weekend they may participate in the
Kiwanis Bullshipper’s Rally & Rodeo, the town's biggest annual blowout. Next year (2017) will the the staging of the 74th annual rodeo. Drummond is in a predominantly agricultural area, so an annual rodeo is to be expected of a small town like Drummond. Up in the hills, both to the north and the south, the major activity until recent times has been silver mining, with old mines and ghost towns sprinkling the high country.
A long stone's throw north of the Clark Fork River, Drummond was, according to local legend, named for a trapper who operated a line of traps in the area and camped about where the railroad station now stands. The first camp at this site was established in 1871 and was called Edwardsville for John Edwards, a local rancher. It was renamed for trapper Hugh Drummond in 1883. When the post office was established in 1884 the name was shortened from Drummond Camp to Drummond.