HELENA — A nearly one-hundred-year-old barn, which has many hidden stories and symbolizes resilience, now has a new purpose on Summer Star Ranch outside Helena.

“My wife looked at the barn and fell in love with it and said I want that barn,” Matthew Daw said.

Daw and his wife Starr have been running Summer Star Ranch since 2005, and they want to bring people a real Montana experience through their weddings and cabins.

Madelyn Heath, MTN News

Daw said, “We just get a chance to show people that have never been to Montana what Montana is really about.”

The Treasure State is all about its rich history and humble beginnings, just like the newest member of the Daw family.

“We have always been about saving the past,” Daw said. Saving old cabins and wagons, too.

The barn is more than what m

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