Parks of Butte

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Originally named the Butte Community Memorial Hospital Park, the park was given to the children of Butte by the Anaconda Company. It was renamed to Chester Steele Memorial Park on November 17, 1965, in honor of Chester Steele, who died in 1959. Steele started working for the Anaconda Copper Mining…
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The property on which Clark Park now sits was first used for traveling circuses coming through Butte. On December 12, 1905, Senator William A. Clark purchased nine acres of land to make a public playground for the “boys of Butte” (Butte Miner- Dec 13, 1905, page 1) with plans to make baseball and…
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What started out as a landfill is now a premier sports and recreation complex. The Atlantic Richfield Company pledged to spend $2.3 million on a park to serve as a waste cap if allowed to dump Colorado tailings in a repository on the site. It was agreed upon and construction began in 1997. Shortly…
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Born in 1884 to James and Florence Painter in Illinois, Emma Painter moved to Butte in 1911. She married Henry LaCasse in 1918, later divorcing in 1931. Emma came to be known as “Blonde Edna” in her line of work. She purchased a two-story house located at 14 South Wyoming, on the edge of Butte’s…
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Father John Sheehan was born in Butte in 1908. Raised in Butte, he attended St. Mary's church and school. He became an ordained Catholic priest in June of 1932, returning to his home parish to say his first mass in May of 1933. Father Sheehan served as a chaplain in World War Two and was…
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Foremen’s Park was built on the remediated grounds of the Mountain Consolidated mine yard. The Mountain Consolidated, or the Con for short, was formed as a consolidation of the Mountain, Burnett, Loweville, and Buffalo Mines. The Mountain Consolidated Mining Company was formed to operate the mine,…
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What is now known as Koprivica Park was once called Max Hebgen Park for the vice-president of the now defunct Montana Power Company. Max Hebgen is credited with switching on Butte’s first incandescent light bulb and he “harnessed the streams of Montana giving him national prominence in…
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This park was first known as Parrot Flat Park, for the nearby neighborhood of the same name. Its major draw was a baseball diamond with an open field. In 1986, the Machinists Local 88 and Boilermakers Local 130 worked together to transform the park with playground equipment, a track, and grass.…
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Skyline Park opened to the public on June 27, 2015, encompassing a total of 60 acres. It is home to Butte’s first dog park, with three fenced areas dedicated to the community’s canine friends. It also boasts a handicap accessible playground and a fishing pond stocked with west slope cutthroat…
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Originally dubbed the South Side Park, the park encompassed 127 acres. In 1920, it was hotly debated as to what to name the new park but was ultimately decided to name it Stodden Park in honor of Butte’s mayor, William T. Stodden, who gifted the land to the city of Butte. By 1926, the Exchange…
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