"Mullan", appropriately named, is monumented near the centre of the front face of the pyramidal concrete base of the "Mullan" statue. The statue is surrounded by a small traffic island in which a memorial garden has been created in honor of Karen Dunnigan.
This is one of the original series of Captain Mullan monuments, of which thirteen were made and placed along the Mullan Road, which stretched 642 miles from Fort Benton, MT to Fort Walla Walla, WA. Mullan surveyed and built the road in the years 1853 to 1860. It was the first road to cross the Rocky Mountains into the Pacific Northwest.
Designed by Western frontier artist Edgar S. Paxton and fabricated by Western Montana M & G Company, the original statues of
Captain John Mullan were fourteen feet tall, cut from white Vermont marble and placed on concrete bases. They were initially placed at various points along
The Mullan Road. This monument was erected under the auspices of the Montana Society of Pioneers and was dedicated in 1918. The statue was a gift to the town of Mullan by W.A. Clark Jr., the son of one of the four Butte Copper Kings, W.A. Clark Sr.
STATION DESCRIPTION
DESCRIBED BY COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 1959
DESIGNATION - MULLAN
PID - SU0483
STATE/COUNTY- ID/SHOSHONE
COUNTRY - US
USGS QUAD - MULLAN (1995)
AT MULLAN, IN THE CENTER OF THE INTERSECTION OF SECOND AVENUE AND
EARLE AVENUE, SET VERTICALLY IN THE NORTHEAST FACE OF THE CONCRETE
FOUNDATION FOR THE JOHN MULLAN TRAIL MONUMENT, AND ABOUT 2 1/2 FEET
HIGHER THAN THE STREET.
From the NGS Datasheet