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Before Butte's formal establishment in 1864, the area consisted of a mining camp that had developed in the early 1860s. [5] The city is in the Silver Bow Creek Valley (or Summit Valley), a natural bowl sitting high in the Rockies straddling the Continental Divide, [6] positioned on the southwestern side of a large mass of granite known as the Boulder Batholith, which dates to the Cretaceous ...
When Butte broadcaster and historian Pat Kearney wrote his 1994 book about the park, the publisher's summary described the park as "a treasure more valuable than all the copper, silver and gold taken out of the mines in Butte." [3] The closest comparable amusement park to Montana today is Silverwood Theme Park in Idaho.
Butte County is a rural county located in the U.S. state of Idaho. As of the 2020 census , the population was 2,574, [ 1 ] making it the third-least populous county in Idaho. Its county seat and largest city is Arco . [ 2 ]
Montana School of Mines, 1900. In 1900, Butte opened its first institution of higher education, the Montana School of Mines, which is contemporarily Montana Tech of the University of Montana. [30] Between approximately 1900 and 1917, Butte had a strong streak of Socialist politics, even electing a Mayor on the Socialist ticket in 1914. [31]
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Location of Butte County in Idaho. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Butte County, Idaho. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties on the National Register of Historic Places in Butte County, Idaho, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register ...
The Mike Mansfield Federal Building and United States Courthouse is a courthouse of the United States District Court for the District of Montana, located in Butte, Montana. Completed in 1904, the building was expanded from 1932 to 1933. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 as U. S. Post Office.
Usages of Skookum in Montana, Idaho and points east and south may derive from the "monster" meaning, rather than the usual "strong, capable, genuine" context more familiar nearer the Pacific Coast. Skookum (historical) " Lander: NV: town/city: Vigus Butte: 39.538°N: 117.175°W: Skookum Bay " Red Lake, near Kenora: ON: bay: 52 N/4: 51°01′18 ...