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2409651 [2] Website. www.co.silverbow.mt.us. Butte (/ bjuːt / BEWT) is a consolidated city-county and the county seat of Silver Bow County, Montana, United States. In 1977, the city and county governments consolidated to form the sole entity of Butte-Silver Bow. The city covers 718 square miles (1,860 km 2), and, according to the 2020 census ...
Butte is a city in southwestern Montana established as a mining camp in the 1860s in the northern Rocky Mountains straddling the Continental Divide. Butte became a hotbed for silver and gold mining in its early stages, and grew exponentially upon the advent of electricity in the late-nineteenth century due to the land's large natural stores of ...
Andrea Leeds, actress (B) [15] Levi Leipheimer, Olympic cycling medalist, two-time U.S. champion (B) [16] Frank Little, union leader lynched in Butte. Paul B. Lowney, humorist, author of At Another Time — Growing up in Butte (B) Sonny Lubick, football coach at Colorado State University 1993-2007 (B)
Website. www.mtech.edu. Montana Technological University, popularly known as Montana Tech, is a public university in Butte, Montana. Founded in 1900 as the Montana State School of Mines, the university became affiliated with the University of Montana in 1994. [3] After undergoing several name changes, in 2017 the Montana University System Board ...
1st. Website. co.silverbow.mt.us. Montana county number 01. Unigov with Butte, MT. Silver Bow County is a county in the U.S. state of Montana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 35,133. [1] Its county seat is Butte. [2] In 1977, the city and county governments consolidated to form the single entity of Butte-Silver Bow.
William A. Clark. The Copper Kings were industrialists Marcus Daly, William A. Clark, James Andrew Murray and F. Augustus Heinze.They were known for the epic battles fought in Butte, Montana, and the surrounding region, during the Gilded Age, over control of the local copper mining industry, the fight that had ramifications for not only Montana, but the United States as a whole.
Size 8.0 x 6.3 x 3.6 cm. The Anaconda Copper Mine was a large copper mine in Butte, Montana that closed operations in 1947 and was eventually consumed by the Berkeley Pit, a vast open-pit mine. [1] Originally a silver mine, it was bought for $30,000 in 1881 by an Irish immigrant named Marcus Daly from Michael Hickey, a Civil War veteran, and co ...
Faced in Butte granite, St. John's predates St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church by one year. The church is closely connected to Copper King W.A. Clark, whose mansion is just a block north. The parish hall and basement gymnasium (now a class room and an office) were added in 1917. For three years after a 1918 fire gutted the interior, services ...