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Today, Butte's population is about a third of its peak in 1917. Over a dozen of the headframes still stand over the mine shafts, and the city still contains thousands of old commercial and residential buildings from the boom times. Mining remains a major employer for the city, but at greatly reduced levels from the past, with just one mine, Montana Resources' Continental Pit, in operation and employing about 350 people. As with many industrial cities, tourism and services, especially health care, are rising as primary employers. Many areas of the city, especially the areas near the old mines, show signs of wear from time but a recent influx of investors and an aggressive campaign to remedy blight has led to a renewed interest in restoring property in Uptown Butte's historic district, which was expanded in 2006 to include parts of Anaconda and is now the largest National Historic Landmark District in the United States with nearly 6,000 contributing properties...learn more

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