Butte-Anaconda Historic District

Butte-Anaconda Historic District

Infobox_nrhp | name =Butte-Anaconda Historic District
nrhp_type =nhld



caption =
location= Walkerville, Butte and Anaconda,Montana
locmapin = Montana
area = 15.2 square miles (39 km²)
built =1864
architect= Unknown
architecture= No Style Listed
designated= July 04, 1961cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=306&ResourceType=District
title=Butte-Anaconda Historic District |accessdate=2007-10-13|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service
]
added = October 15, 1966
governing_body = Local
refnum=66000438cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]

Butte-Anaconda Historic District is a historic district that spans parts of Walkerville, Butte and Anaconda, Montana. It has the most resources of any U.S. National Historic Landmark Districts.

It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1961, when it focused only on Butte.

In 2006, the district was expanded significantly to include parts of Walkerville and Anaconda, as well as the bed of the Butte, Anaconda and Pacific Railroad. The expanded district covers 9,774 acres (39 km²) with nearly 6,000 contributing properties of historic significance.cite web|url=http://www.montanastandard.com/articles/2006/04/27/newsbutte/hjjdjfhcjiibef.txt|title=Interior secretary approves district expansion |author=Roberta Forsell Stauffer |date=2007-04-27|accessdate=2007-11-01|work=Newspaper article on expansion of National Historic Landmark Butte-Anaconda Historic District|publisher=The Montana Standard (newspaper)]

New York's Adirondack Park and Alaska's Cape Krusenstern Archeological District are much larger by area, but may contain fewer contributing elements.

ignificance

The district's national significance relates to its long history of copper production as well as to its role in the development of the labor union movement in the United States. As the source of nearly one-third of all the world's copper in the early 1900s, [Walter H. Weed, 1908, "The Copper Mines of the World", Hill Publishing Co., p. 321] Butte's mines provided one of the metals that were critical to American industrialization.

Walkerville represents some of the earliest mines in the district and preserves the early mining camp flavor present in the 1890s to 1910s. Butte itself is an urban metropolis where industrial relics such as mine yards and head frames are juxtaposed with a wide variety of residential and business structures. Anaconda was created as a company town that contained the smelters for Butte's ore. The Butte Anaconda and Pacific Railroad, connecting Butte and Anaconda, is a designated part of the expanded National Historic Landmark District.

Known as the "Gibraltar of Unionism", Butte saw the early development of a mine worker's union in 1878. The Butte union's members were at the forefront of creating the Western Federation of Miners as well as the Industrial Workers of the World and later the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). Labor strife in Butte from 1914 to 1920 served as a model for corporate and union activities across the nation. [Jerry W. Calvert, 1988, "The Gibraltar: Socialism and Labor in Butte, Montana, 1895-1920", Montana Historical Society Press] 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.

References

ee also

*List of National Historic Landmarks in Montana

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