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Walkerville{POP.714}The Granite Mountains Memorial In Walkerville commemorates one of the worst mining disasters in American history. More than 160 miners were killed when a fire broke out at the North Butte Copper Mine on June 8, 1917. The memorial, with interpretive4 plaques that tell the story surrounding the catastrophe, overlooks the 10,000-foot Highland Mountains, the Continental Divide and remnants of a once booming mining industry.
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Butte, Montana. Is the Nation's Number #1 and "LARGEST ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER SITE"!
The "BERKELEY PIT" as it is offically known, with 40 BILLION GALLONS of Highly Toxic Copper-Mine Waste, that Federal Government has explained is too expensive to clean up. However, Montana Tech researchers, writting in the "Journal of Organic Chemistry" in July of 2006, have found more than 160 types of "Extremophiles" which are organisms that thrive in toxicity and now demenstrated that some of these organisms are effective against lung and ovarian cancers
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Mary Fields Born a slave in 1832 Became the first African-American Woman to serve as a U.S. mail carrier. She drove the mail coach in the Cascade County Region and NEVER missed a delivery Day in 10 Years, earning her the Nickname "Stage Coach Mary".
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June 3rd 1996 The F.B.I. pulled the plug on the electricity at the Freeman Ranch to persuade the occupants to end the 71 day old standoff.
Too bad them folks in Waco, Texas. didn't figure out just how easy it can be handled.
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