Butte-Anaconda-Walkerville National Historic Landmark District
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The Butte-Anaconda-Walkerville National Historic Landmark District was expanded from the original Butte National Historic Landmark District, effective with the U.S. Secretary of the Interior's signature in March 2006. The expanded district encompasses 6,015 contributing properties, the highest resource count of any NHLD in the nation, and covers 9,774 acres. The contiguous Butte-Walkerville areas are connected to the Anaconda part of the District by the Butte, Anaconda, and Pacific Railroad bed.
The central core of the new district was designated the Butte National Historic Landmark District on July 4, 1961, at the same time Bannack and Virginia City, early mining camps in southwest Montana, received the designation. Butte was not the first NHLD (Charleston, SC, and others were named in late 1960), but was among the first and is now the largest.
Although the Butte-Anaconda-Walkerville National Historic Landmark District can correctly claim to be the largest NHLD by contributing property count, be aware that some other areas (notably Savannah, Georgia) very likely contain a greater total number of National Register properties when their NHLD (around 2200 contributors) is combined with their seven additional National Register Districts.
See also
Butte-Anaconda NHLD on Wikipedia (just a stub Oct. 2007)
