OUT OF TOWN MEETING - BUTTE 2008
September 5th - 7th 2008
(tentative schedule)
Friday September 5, 2008
4:30 - 8:00 pm Registration - Hotel Finlen foyer
(There is a lounge off the foyer)
7:00 - 8:00 pm Ghost Town Board Meeting (Room
to be announced)
Saturday, September 6, 2008
8:00 am Registration - Hotel Finlen foyer
9:00 am Bus tour of famous historic sites of Butte including Chinatown, Red Light District, Berkeley Pit,
Copper King Mansion, site of the worst mining disaster, the town of Walkerville, etc.
Noon Lunch on your own
1:30 - 4:00 pm Historic underground walking tours of Uptown Butte with professional guides
6:00 pm No host bar in banquet room at Hotel Finlen
6:30 pm
General Meeting of MGTPS members
7:00 pm
Banquet at Hotel Finlen (catered by the Acoma)
Guest Speaker:
Mr. Brian Shovers, President of Montana Chapter of the Society for Industrial
Archaeology.
His
topic will be "The Mining History of Butte."
Sunday, September 7, 2008
9:00 am Guided tours of World Museum of Mining
(The four guides are retired miners and come in miners' costumes)
Noon Miners' lunch (Cornish pasties) at World Museum
of Mining
The W. M. of M. has offered a bonus - a 1 1/2 hour underground
mine tour for those who are brave!
If you wish to go, pay your own way.
Travel home safely, everyone.
The Hotel
Finlen is the host hotel. Rates are $50-$70, depending on number of guests
and size of beds. There are 20
restored
rooms in the historic hotel and 20 more in the motel addition - all available on
a first come, first served basis.
Updated January 29, 2008