Rudyard is on the Hi-Line between Chester and Havre. It is said that it was named for Rudyard Kipling. (from Cheney's
Names on the Face of Montana, Mountain Press Publishing Company) The area now is predominately wheat farms. The railroads were a catalyst for developing the towns along the Hi-Line. Rudyard is a shipping point for the wheat grown in the area.
The town has a wonderful, well-appointed museum in the old train depot. The museum features local history of the area, including a depot, working windmill, schoolhouse, outhouse, blacksmith shop, tar-paper shack, garage, farm implements and archives with photographs, family histories, obituaries, newspapers and school annuals.
The Rudyard area has provided dinosaur specimens for the Museum of the Rockies and other premier institutions for years. Now a Museum of the Rockies affiliate, the Depot Museum's features a number of permanent and changing dinosaur exhibits.
