Open Pit Mine - Butte, Montana
Headframe is the structural frame above an underground mine shaft so as to enable the hoisting of machinery, personnel, or materials.
Established in 1864 as a mining camp in the northern Rocky Mountains on the Continental Divide, Butte (elevation 5,538 ft) experienced rapid development in the late-nineteenth century, and was Montana's first major industrial city. In its heyday between the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, it was one of the largest copper boomtowns in the American West. Employment opportunities in the mines attracted surges of Asian and European immigrants, particularly the Irish; as of 2017, Butte has the largest population of Irish Americans per capita of any city in the United States.
The city's Uptown Historic District, on the National Register of Historic Places, is one of the largest National Historic Landmark Districts in the United States, containing nearly 6,000 contributing properties.
Butte-Anaconda Historic District - Silver Bow County - NRP 66000438
Open Pit Mine - Butte, Montana
Headframe is the structural frame above an underground mine shaft so as to enable the hoisting of machinery, personnel, or materials.
Established in 1864 as a mining camp in the northern Rocky Mountains on the Continental Divide, Butte (elevation 5,538 ft) experienced rapid development in the late-nineteenth century, and was Montana's first major industrial city. In its heyday between the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, it was one of the largest copper boomtowns in the American West. Employment opportunities in the mines attracted surges of Asian and European immigrants, particularly the Irish; as of 2017, Butte has the largest population of Irish Americans per capita of any city in the United States.
The city's Uptown Historic District, on the National Register of Historic Places, is one of the largest National Historic Landmark Districts in the United States, containing nearly 6,000 contributing properties.
Butte-Anaconda Historic District - Silver Bow County - NRP 66000438