In Drummond one will find a grocery store, two gas stations, a convenience stores, a quilting store, three motels, two bars, three restaurants, plus a drive in. Amenities include an impressive library, a health center, a bank & post office, fire department and ambulance as well as a senior citizens center.
On finding the town hall one will also have found the local Legion post. A smallish building on Rennie Alley at A street, the premises are shared among the local Legion, Post 125, at the front, the town hall in the middle, with town shops at the rear. It's a long concrete building with vertical aluminum siding covering the Legion's section of the building at the front and overhead doors at the rear for the town shops.
The Gold Star Post 125 in Drummond owns the Drummond Rodeo Grounds, the site for some of the largest events in Granite County. Each year the facility hosts the Drummond Rodeo, which was established in the 1940s. And while it has been hosted here for years, 2016 will mark the first time that the Legion will conduct a Montana High School Rodeo Association Event, with two days in Helmville and two in Drummond. The event will take place May 27-30 and promises to be filled with exciting action and family fun.
From Post 125
Drummond bills itself as the home of the "
World Famous Bullshippers". Down by the railway tracks one will find their haunt, the corrals of the Bullshippers, sporting a big sign reading "
Used Cow Lot".
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. In 2023, it was the 82nd Annual Drummond Kiwanis PRCA 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 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.