BUTTE - The mine fire that occurred here on June 8 th , 1917, is still the country’s worst hardrock mining disaster, and the architect who designed this memorial still recalls the eerie feeling this location had more than 40 years ago.

Learn about the Granite Mountain Memorial's tribute to miners in Butte’s 1917 fire Butte's Granite Mountain Memorial Honors Victims of 1917 Mine Fire

“There was a bad feeling up there that nobody had taken care of that. And, I don’t know how to describe that feeling, you know, spiritual or whatever, but when that thing was built … calm,” said Butte architect Mark Reavis.

Reavis designed the Granite Mountain Memorial as a tribute to the 168 miners who were killed when a fire accidentally started in the mine 108 years ago. The disaster sparked a demand

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