“Gold Hill” has a nice ring to it – but it’s doubtful if Butte’s Gold Hill mines produced any notable gold, and they were only barely on the Butte Hill. The Washoe Copper Company, with backing from Marcus Daly, began to exploit a vein near Copper Street at Wyoming in the late 1880s.

The southwest corner of Colorado and Porphyry Streets has been a vacant lot since the mid-1950s. What was there? Well, just the largest macaroni factory in the West.

In 1900, Greece maintained nine consular offices in the United States – consuls in New York, where the Consul General was located; Chicago; Boston; Philadelphia; and San Francisco. Vice-Consuls provided services in Norfolk, Virginia; St, Louis, Missouri; Nashville, Tennessee; and Lowell, Massachusetts. On December 7, 1900, the King of Greece issued a decree naming a fifth Vice-Consul: George Scholomiti of Butte.

Late May and early June 1908 were some of the wettest days in Montana history. Rain, wet snow, and snowmelt combined to produce one of the most devastating floods to ever hit the region. On May 31 in Butte there was “too much snow” for Memorial Day services, and the parade was cancelled. On June 2, Butte received 0.9” of rain, part of a storm system that affected most of western Montana and disrupted train travel.

The short-lived St. Paul’s hospital stood at the southeast corner of Gold and Montana Streets, 502 S. Montana. It was a three-story rectangular building, with a kitchen, dining room, and parlor on the ground floor.

Let’s get one thing straight from the top: the Leonard Hotel was not built by Marcus Daly to block the view of his nemesis, William Clark. When the Leonard was erected in 1906, Daly had been in his grave in New York City for six years.

Thousands of people have visited Butte’s City Jail on Broadway Street as tourists, and a few of those visitors spent some involuntary time there before it closed in 1971. And a restaurant on Park Street retains the bars from the jail there, in the original City Hall, built in 1884.

Carrie Nation’s January 1910 visit to Butte is surrounded by myths – most of them untrue. Did she die just after leaving Butte? No, she lived for 18 months more, dying at age 64. Did her Butte experience so demoralize her that she gave up the hatchet? No, she preached almost to her dying day, and even returned to Montana in April 1910, to Kalispell and Whitefish, where she received a warm welcome.