Mount View Cemetery Tour History is a etched in headstones. A tour of Mount View is a walk through Billings's history and so much more. Headstones provide symbols and clues about the deceased's life ideals and passions. Guests will learn how to decode the mystery of their ancestry through a graveyard tour. During this unique tour, attendees learn about Victorian mourning and funerary costumes, headstone typology, and tidbits on who is buried in each cemetery. Attendees will also participating in a headstone rubbing.
Hang onto your seats while we tour the site of notorious China Alley, where no other tour dares to go. You'll learn about the cleverly disguised opium dens of the 1920s, and about the mysterious and spooky tunnels under the downtown streets. Renee and Karen invite you to join us and our driver, Mr. Macabre, for a trip into the Twilight Zone--if you dare! We'll tell you tales of the dark side of Billings' past, of rumrunners and ghostly ladies of the night, of the murder of a policeman and Billings' one-and-only lynching.
History is a etched in headstones. A tour of Mount View is a walk through
Billings's history and so much more. Headstones provide symbols and clues about the deceased's life ideals and passions. Guests will learn how to decode the mystery of their ancestry through a graveyard tour. During this unique tour, attendees learn about Victorian mourning and funerary costumes,
headstone typology, and tidbits on who is buried in each cemetery. Attendees will also participating in a headstone rubbing.