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When was Butte established as a mining camp?

  • 1864

  • 1872

  • 1880

  • 1891

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Butte was established as a mining camp in the northern Rocky Mountains on the Continental Divide in 1864. It rapidly developed in the late-nineteenth century, becoming Montana's first major industrial city.
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