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The Anaconda Smelter Stack is the tallest surviving masonry structure in the world, with an overall height of about 585 feet (178.3 m), including a brick chimney 555 feet (169.2 m) tall and the downhill side of a concrete foundation 30 feet (9.1 m) tall. [2] [3] [A] It is a brick smoke stack or chimney, built in 1918 as part of the Washoe ...
Anaconda, county seat of Deer Lodge County, which has a consolidated city-county government, is located in southwestern Montana, United States. Located at the foot of the Anaconda Range (known locally as the "Pintlers"), the Continental Divide passes within 8 mi (13 km) south of the community. As of the 2020 census the population of the ...
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 ...
The Copper Kings were industrialists Marcus Daly, William A. Clark, James Andrew Murray and F. Augustus Heinze. They were known for the epic battles fought in Butte, Montana, and the surrounding region, during the Gilded Age, over control of the local copper mining industry, the fight that had ramifications for not only Montana, but the United ...
The Anaconda Standard was a newspaper published in Anaconda, Montana. The first issue was published on September 4, 1889 and the final issue was published on June 20, 1970. [1] The Anaconda newspaper was funded by Marcus Daly and owned by his company the Anaconda Copper Mining Company. [1] It is likely the newspaper was created in reaction to a ...
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.
Anaconda Copper Mining Company. The Anaconda Copper Mining Company, known as the Amalgamated Copper Company from 1899 to 1915, [1] was an American mining company headquartered in Butte, Montana. It was one of the largest trusts of the early 20th century and one of the largest mining companies in the world for much of the 20th century.
Anaconda Copper Mine (Montana) Coordinates: 46°01′02″N 112°30′37″W. Anaconda headframes overlooking the city of Butte. HAER photo. Chalcocite replacing covellite, said to be found in 1883, in the early days of mining at Butte. Size 8.0 x 6.3 x 3.6 cm. The Anaconda Copper Mine was a large copper mine in Butte, Montana that closed ...