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The Montana Standard is a daily newspaper in Butte, Montana owned by Lee Enterprises. History. On September 12, 1928 the Anaconda Standard merged with Butte Miner to form The Montana Standard. At the time it was owned by the Anaconda Company. In 1959, It was sold to Lee Enterprises.
Butte has one local daily, a weekly paper, as well as several papers from around the state. The Montana Standard is Butte's daily paper. It was founded in 1928 and is the result of The Butte Miner and the Anaconda Standard merging into one daily paper. The Standard is owned by Lee Enterprises. The Butte Weekly is another local paper.
December 17, 1985. Dedicated to. Blessed Virgin Mary. Our Lady of the Rockies is a 90-foot (27 m) statue built in the likeness of Mary, the mother of Jesus, that sits atop the Continental Divide overlooking Butte, Montana, United States. It is the fourth-tallest statue in the United States after Birth of the New World, the Statue of Liberty ...
History of Butte, Montana. Original Butte courthouse, 1885. A headframe overlooking Butte. Butte is a city in southwestern Montana established as a mining camp in the 1860s in the northern Rocky Mountains straddling the Continental Divide. Butte became a hotbed for silver and gold mining in its early stages, and grew exponentially upon the ...
Kearney was a long-time radio broadcaster for Butte Central's football and basketball games, and served as sports historian for both Butte Central and the public Butte High School. He was also instrumental in establishing the Butte Sports Hall of Fame in 1987, to which he was enshrined in 2009. He also coached the cross country team at Butte ...
Speculator Mine disaster. The Granite Mountain/Speculator Mine disaster of June 8, 1917, occurred as a result of a fire in a copper mine, and was the most deadly event in underground hard rock mining in United States history. Most men died of suffocation underground as the fire consumed their oxygen; a total of 168 miners were killed.
The Berkeley Pit is a former open pit copper mine in the western United States, located in Butte, Montana.It is one mile (1.6 km) long by one-half mile (800 m) wide, with an approximate depth of 1,780 feet (540 m).
October 15, 1966 (original) 2006 (expansion) Designated NHLD. July 4, 1961 [2] The Butte–Anaconda Historic District is a National Historic Landmark (NHL) that spans parts of Walkerville, Butte and Anaconda, Montana, United States. It has the most resources of any U.S. National Historic Landmark District. It was declared an NHL in 1961, when ...