Shoutout to that 1947 map of Montana that labeled Helena as the state capital twice

I was cleaning out my dad's basement last Tuesday and found this old tourist map where they put Helena in the right spot but also added a second Helena up by Great Falls, and I spent about 20 minutes trying to figure out if there was actually a town called Helena West I'd never heard of.

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oscarcooper3d ago

Hey @dylanwilliams, labels just got shifted sometimes, it wasn't deliberate trolling.

dylanwilliams3d ago

Did you check if the map had the Helena label placed over an existing settlement that just wasn't named? I've seen old maps where printers just reused labels or overlapped names by accident. Honestly, a misprint like that feels almost deliberate, like somebody was trolling the cartography department.