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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]
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.
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The History of Washington, Idaho and Montana (1845–1889) Vol XXXI. San Francisco, CA: The History Company. Fogarty, Kate Hammond (1916). The Story of Montana. New York: A. S. Barnes Company. Hamilton, James McClellan. From Wilderness to Statehood: A History of Montana, 1805–1900 Archived 2012-07-26 at the Wayback Machine (Bindfords & Mort ...
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.
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 .
William Owsley (c. 1842 – March 20, 1919) was an American pioneer and politician, who was successful in mining, real estate and related ventures in early Butte, Montana. Owsley was the fourth mayor of Butte, elected to two consecutive terms from 1882-3 and from 1883-4.