Twin Buttes (Fallon County, Montana)
Twin Buttes may refer to one of the following: * Twin Buttes, Arizona, a ghost town in Pima County, Arizona * Twin Buttes (California), volcanic cinder cones in California * Twin Buttes, North Dakota, an unincorporated community in Dunn County, North Dakota * Twin Buttes Reservoir, an artificial lake in Texas See also * Twin Butte, Alberta Twin Butte is a hamlet in Southern Alberta, Canada within the Municipal District of Pincher Creek No. 9. It is located on Highway 6, approximately southwest of Lethbridge. The hamlet of Twin Butte is historically known as a small ranching c ...

Twin Buttes, Pima County, Arizona
Twin Buttes is a populated place on the east flank of the Sierrita Mountains approximately twenty miles south of Tucson, in Pima County, Arizona, United States. Named after a prominent hill located next to the town, Twin Buttes was founded as a small mining town ''circa'' 1903 and abandoned around 1930. Much of the actual town site is now buried underneath mine tailings, and all that remains is the Twin Buttes Cemetery. History The discovery of copper in the Twin Buttes area is accredited to three prospectors known as "The Three Nations" – John G. Baxter, who was from Wisconsin, an Irishman named Michael Irish, and John Ellis of Scotland. After struggling for years to develop a few small prospects, they convinced Mayor David Stuart Rose of Wisconsin and a number of other investors to take over the property, resulting in the establishment of the Twin Buttes Mining & Smelting Company in 1903. The Twin Buttes Mining & Smelting Company operated several mines in the immediate area, ...
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