Welcome to Obach

Welcome to Obach, Montana, a thriving little community on Frenchman Creek about 40 miles north of Hinsdale. Obach was established early in 1916 with the arrival of the Obach and Wachula families from Canada. Anna Obach, wife of Tom Obach, and Polly Wachula, wife of Mike Wachula, were sisters. Tom and Mike had heard about the free land in the United States for homesteading. All you had to do was “prove up” on your homestead for five years and it was yours, free and clear. Early in the spring of 1916 the Obach and Wachula families loaded all their possessions on ox carts and headed south...