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The Burton K. Wheeler House is a historic house at 1232 East 2nd Street in Butte, Montana, United States.Built about 1923, this modest working-class house was for many years the home of politician Burton K. Wheeler (1882–1975), a Democrat who in 1924 ran for United States Vice President on the Progressive Party ticket.
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 ...
Labor strife in Butte from 1914 to 1920 served as a model for corporate and union activities across the nation. [6] Important factors in this labor history include the murder of Frank Little and the Anaconda Road Massacre. Events in Butte shaped the attitudes of politicians, including Burton K. Wheeler, long-time U.S. senator from Montana.
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 .
Town Pump is a Butte, Montana-based chain of truck stops, gas stations, casinos, hotels and convenience stores. The chain has been in services since 1953, founded by Tom and Mary Kenneally. The company would expand into convenience stores in the 1980s, and truck stops, car washes, laundromats, hotels, quick serves, delis and gaming ...
KXLF-TV's studios are located on South Montana Street in downtown Butte, and its transmitter is located on XL Heights east of the city. KXLF-TV and KBZK (channel 7) in Bozeman split the media market, and local news for the Butte area is produced from KBZK's Bozeman studios. KXLF-TV is Montana's first and oldest television station.
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. Additionally, the town of Walkerville is a separate municipality from Butte and is within the county.
Shortly thereafter, in 1983, ARCO ceased mining and smelting operations in the Butte-Anaconda area. [4] For more than a century, the ACM mined and smelted ore in Butte. Smelters operated in Butte until c. 1920 [5] and in nearby Anaconda until 1981. In Butte, mine tailings and smelter waste were dumped directly into Silver Bow Creek, creating a ...