About Butte-Silver Bow, Montana

Butte-Silver Bow is the single government that formed in 1977, when the city of Butte and Silver Bow County joined. Butte started out as a mining camp in 1864, in the Silver Bow Creek Valley, a high bowl on the Continental Divide. In 1874 William L. Farlin opened the Asteroid Mine, later called the Travona, and prospectors poured in looking for gold and silver.

Copper soon became the bigger prize, because the spread of electric power needed it. Marcus Daly managed the Alice, a silver mine in Walkerville, and spotted high-grade copper ore there. His employers, the Walker Brothers, wouldn't buy the nearby Anaconda mine, so in 1881 Daly sold his share of the Alice and bought it himself, with George Hearst taking one-fourth of the stock. His company eventually owned every mine on Butte Hill. In 1910 the district produced 284,000,000 pounds of copper, more than anywhere else in North America, and Butte became known as the Richest Hill on Earth.

“Butte, Montana, fifteen years ago a small placer-mining village clinging to the mountain side, has now risen to the rank of the first mining camp of the world... [It] is now the most populous city of Montana, numbering twenty-five thousand active, enterprising, prosperous inhabitants.”
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  • Ore trains on electric powerMarcus Daly built a smelter at Anaconda and created the Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Railway to haul ore there from Butte. In 1913 the BA&P began moving its freight by electricity, the first railway in the nation to do so.
  • Where a miners' federation beganBy 1885 a general union in Butte had about 1,800 dues-paying members, and that year it reorganized as the Butte Miners' Union. When a violent strike broke out in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, in 1892, the Butte miners sent thousands of dollars and then mortgaged their own buildings to send more. In May 1893 about 40 delegates from hard-rock camps met in Butte and founded the Western Federation of Miners, with the Butte union as Local Number One.
  • The Speculator disaster, 1917On June 8, 1917, a fire broke out more than 2,000 feet underground in the Granite Mountain mine shaft and sent smoke and poisonous gas through tunnels connected to the Speculator Mine. Some men walled themselves off behind bulkheads and lived, but 168 died, the worst hard rock mining disaster in world history. The Granite Mountain Memorial honors them.
  • Columbia Gardens, 1899Copper King W. A. Clark built his mansion in Butte between 1884 and 1888. In 1899 he bought Columbia Gardens, a small park, and turned it into an amusement park so children and families could escape the smoky mining air. He gave it a pavilion and a roller coaster, along with a lake where visitors could swim or paddle canoes.
  • Chinatown fought backChinese immigrants opened businesses that grew into a Butte Chinatown, until the Chinese Exclusion Act ended new arrivals in 1882. In 1895 the chamber of commerce and the labor unions began a boycott of Chinese-owned businesses, and the owners took the unions to court and won. The Mai Wah Museum tells their story.

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Names on the Butte-Silver Bow map

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Places and landmarks33

  • Butte
  • Buxton
  • Centerville
  • Columbia Gardens
  • Delano Place
  • Divide
  • Donald
  • Durant
  • Fairmont Hot Springs
  • Feely
  • Grace
  • Gregson
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  • Hackney
  • Highview
  • Janney
  • Johnson
  • Maiden Rock
  • McQueen
  • Meaderville
  • Melrose
  • Miles Crossing
  • Moose Town
  • Newcomb
  • Nine-mile
  • Nissler
  • Patterson Corner
  • Quinn
  • Ramsay
  • Rocker
  • Sciuchetti Place
  • Silver Bow
  • Skones
  • Woodin

Streets and roads85

  • Harrison Avenue
  • Continental Drive
  • Fleecer Mountain Road
  • Sheep's Gl
  • Frontage Road
  • Beef Trail Road
  • Buxton Road
  • Spring Road
  • Moose Creek Road
  • Highland Road
  • Camp Creek Road
  • South Excelsior Avenue
  • German Gulch Road
  • Fish Creek Road
  • Browns Gulch Road
  • Hail Columbia Gulch Road
  • Sheep Gulch Road
  • Soap Gulch Road
  • Fleecer Ridge Road
  • Bossard Road
  • Iris Ridge Road
  • Telegraph Gulch
  • Nissler Road
  • Jerry Creek Road
  • Lime Kiln Road
  • Charcoal Gulch Road
  • Prevost Trail
  • Timber
  • Liva Lane
  • Elm Street
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  • Rowe Road
  • Divide Creek Road
  • South Buxton Frontage Road
  • Bluebird Trail
  • Rocker Road
  • Johnson Creek Road
  • Little Basin Creek Road
  • Hail Columbia Road
  • Basin Creek Road
  • Flume Gulch
  • American 26 Gulch
  • Seven Springs Road
  • Rick Jones Way
  • Meadow Gulch Road
  • Moulton Resevoir Road
  • Jimmie New Road
  • Oro Fino Gulch Road
  • Canyon Road
  • Patterson Road
  • Saddle Rock Road
  • Wynne Avenue
  • Herman Gulch Road
  • George Street
  • Tucker Creek Road
  • Little Fish Creek Road
  • Albany Avenue
  • Roosevelt Drive
  • Soap Gulch
  • Haggin Vw
  • Curly Gulch Road
  • State Street
  • Nipper Mdw
  • Fleecer Road
  • Cut Off Road
  • Two Bit Lane
  • Old RR
  • Buxton Frontage Road South
  • Maclean Creek Road
  • X-L Heights Road
  • South Rocker Road
  • Blacktail Loop
  • Butcher Gulch Road
  • Paxson Avenue
  • Flint Creek Road
  • East Badger Lane
  • Bull Run Gulch Road
  • South Buxton Road
  • North Browns Gulch Road
  • Ski Area Loop
  • Cradberry Road
  • Lyndale Lane
  • Forest Road
  • Wild Rose Lane
  • South River Road
  • Basin Crk Road

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