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  2. Coffee shop in Anaconda raising funds for Montana flood ... - AOL

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    Shebrews Coffee in Anaconda and Butte are fundraising to help local organizations and families in need during historic floods rocking Montana’s small-town communities.

  3. Butte–Anaconda Historic District - Wikipedia

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    Anaconda was created as a company town that contained the smelters for Butte's ore. The Butte Anaconda and Pacific Railroad, connecting Butte and Anaconda, is a designated part of the expanded National Historic Landmark District. [2] Known as the "Gibraltar of Unionism", Butte saw the early development of a mine worker's union in 1878.

  4. Anaconda, Montana - Wikipedia

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    Anaconda was founded by Marcus Daly, one of the Copper Kings, who financed the construction of the Anaconda smelter on nearby Warm Springs Creek to process copper ore from the Butte mines. Daly originally named the site "Copperopolis", but that name was already used by Copperopolis, Montana , a small mining town in Meagher County .

  5. Butte, Anaconda and Pacific Railway - Wikipedia

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    Headframes of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, looking over the town of Butte, MT Butte, Anaconda and Pacific boxcab #47 on display in Butte.. When it first opened, the BA&P used steam locomotives to haul the ore, freight, and passenger trains, however the heavy daily use took its toll on the engines, and by 1910 alternative power sources were being sought. [1]

  6. Anaconda Copper - Wikipedia

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    The Anaconda Copper Mining Company, known as the Amalgamated Copper Company from 1899 to 1915, [1] was an American mining company headquartered in Butte, Montana.It was one of the largest trusts of the early 20th century and one of the largest mining companies in the world for much of the 20th century.

  7. Berkeley Pit - Wikipedia

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    The Anaconda Company bought the homes, businesses and schools of the working-class communities of Meaderville, East Butte, and McQueen, east of the pit site. Many of these homes were either destroyed, buried, or moved to the southern end of Butte. Residents were compensated at market value for their acquired property. [citation needed]

  8. Massive Park fire sparked by man pushing burning car into a ...

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    Smoke from the Park fire in Butte County shrouds trees in Upper Bidwell Park, northeast of Chico. (California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection) Cal Fire listed the fire at 71,489 acres ...

  9. Butte, Anaconda and Pacific Railway Historic District

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    The Butte, Anaconda and Pacific Railway Historic District is a 750 acres (300 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. It covers the railway right-of-way which begins in Butte, Montana and runs to Anaconda generally along the course of Silver Bow Creek.