Landmark Headframes

Address 1000 George Street
Butte, MT 59701 View on Map Own or manage this business?

Website http://www.buttecvb.com Email chamber@buttechamber.org Phone 406-723-3177

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About Dotting the landscape and skyline of Butte are fourteen tall, black steel structures. Variously called "gallows frames", "gallus frames", or headframes, these mark the remnants of mines that honeycombed the Butte hill. Cables from a mine's hoist house passed over sheave wheels at the top of the frame, lowering miners to their work, transporting mules, equipment and supplies down the shafts and most importantly, bringing up load after load of ore. Seven of the fourteen headframes have been outlined in red lights, part of a campaign to memorialize all of Butte's historic headframes.

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MAILING ADDRESS 1000 George Street
Butte, MT 59701

CONTACT 406-723-3177

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