Editing Loma, Montana (section)

==History==
James Kipp, of the [[American Fur Company]] founded the first community here in 1831. The [[Blackfeet Nation|Blackfeet]] laid siege to the fort, and inhabitants quickly abandoned the site. The next year, the American Fur Company established another trading post, Fort McKenzie, a few miles upstream of the old site.<ref name="mhs">{{cite web |title=Loma |url=http://mtplacenames.org/ |website=Montana Place Names Companion |publisher=Montana Historical Society |access-date=5 April 2021}}</ref> During the 1860s, businessmen built a townsite near the confluence of the Marias and the Missouri rivers, called Ophir. On May 25, 1865, the Blackfeet killed 10 men in the developing town.<ref name="mhs" />