The second Indian Agency on the Blackfeet Reservation was built at Old Agency in 1879 after Agent John Young moved the buildings from Upper Badger Creek with help from the Blackfeet Indians. Men and women dug cellars, hauled stone, mixed mortar, and covered the exterior with lime from Heart Butte. Built in stockade shape, the Agency had two bastions at diagonal corners to protect against enemy attack. The Indians called it "Old Ration Place" after the government began issuing rations. During the Starvation Winter of 1883-1884, about 500 Blackfeet Indians camping near Old Agency died as a result of an inadequate supply of government rations during an exceptionally hard winter. In 1894, after the Great Northern Railway extended its tracks across the Reservation, the Agency moved to Willow Creek at the present site in Browning. Today, the Museum of the Plains Indian in Browning houses a fine collection of artifacts illustrating Blackfeet culture before and after the establishment of the Reservation.