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Butte, Montana. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Silver Bow. Associated ZIP codes: 59701, 59702, 59703, 59707, 59750.
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U.S. Department of Energy Assistant Secretary Audrey Robertson visited Montana Technological University in Butte on Friday to meet with university leaders an...
“To be entrusted with four consecutive tournaments is both humbling and exciting.” — Montana Tech Director of Athletics Matt Stepan
“People just did not want to hang out in the heat,” said festival director George Everett. “Some, though, were tough and stayed.”
Special Olympian Joe Gibson took home the gold recently, representing Montana in the 2026 Special Olympics USA Games held June 20-26 in Minnesota.
The Montana Folk Festival returned to Uptown Butte over the weekend with more than 20 groups slated to perform on the festival’s six stages, bringing diver...
The Montana Folk Festival returned to Uptown Butte over the weekend, with more than 20 groups slated to perform on the festival’s six stages, bringing dive...
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Chick-fil-A has opened in Butte, donating $25,000 to the Montana Food Bank and hiring 110 employees.
A Butte strongman is attempting to lift over 96,000 pounds in one hour to raise money for a new addiction recovery home.
The Midwest Amusements Carnival had been operating in the north parking lot of the Civic Center since Thursday
The Montana Folk Festival, an annual summer attraction, has become a much-anticipated event that brings people from across the country to Butte. Here
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Butte is in Silver Bow County, Montana.
Region: Western Montana
59701, 59702, 59703, 59707, 59750
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Butte lies in the Silver Bow Creek, or Summit, Valley, a natural bowl high in the Rockies on the Continental Divide, on the southwestern side of the granite mass known as the Boulder Batholith. A mining camp grew there in the early 1860s, and Butte was formally established in 1864. In 1874 William L. Farlin founded the Asteroid Mine, later the Travona, which drew many prospectors seeking gold and silver. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries Butte became Montana's first major industrial city and one of the largest copper boom towns in the West.
The mines drew workers from Cornwall, Ireland, Wales, Lebanon, Canada, Finland, Austria, Italy, China, Montenegro, Mexico and elsewhere, who settled in ethnic neighborhoods such as the Irish Dublin Gulch, the Eastern European McQueen Addition and Italian Meaderville. Butte still has the largest population of Irish Americans per capita of any U.S. city. Many Chinese immigrants built a Chinatown until the Chinese Exclusion Act halted their migration in 1882, and when the chamber of commerce and unions boycotted Chinese-owned businesses in 1895, the owners sued and won. The Mai Wah Museum tells their story. The influx of miners also gave Butte a reputation as a wide-open town. Butte was known for its active labor unions and socialist politics, most famously in the labor riot of 1914, and though the Anaconda Copper Mining Company dominated it, it was never a company town. The Speculator Mine disaster of 1917 was the worst hard rock mining disaster in world history. Mining produced more than $48 billion in ore but left the Berkeley Pit and, along the upper Clark Fork River, the nation's largest Superfund site. Sources Wikipedia: Butte, Montana
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