Cabbage Patch
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The Cabbage Patch as it was called in Butte was a shanty town located on the east side of Arizona Street. It ran from about Platinum Street north to Galena Street. These small shacks were started in the 1880s and had mostly poor immigrants, down-on-their-luck gamblers, old drunks and prostitutes, widows, criminals hiding from the law, and in later years (prohibition 1919-1933) a number of moonshiners living within its boundaries. The district had no running water or sewers and only a few of these shacks even had electricity.
The four shacks behind 108 S. Arizona date at least to 1890 according to the Sanborn maps. Most of the Cabbage Patch was destroyed in the early 1940s, falling under the "New Deal" and building of the Silver Bow Homes--low income housing that is still used for that today. These four shacks are at the extreme north end of the "Patch" and after 1946 were used by Tony Canonica's son for auto storage. In 2004 two shacks were restored on the inside to resemble their original uses as residences. All of these shacks still have some of their original wallpaper in them. The addresses here were 108 1/4, 108 1/2, and 108 3/4 S. Arizona, known from documents found on site.
