Bill O’Keefe remembers the day the mighty stack fell. Great Falls’ most iconic symbol, the Anaconda Co. smokestack, actually was located in Black Eagle, where the industrial smelter and later ...

There will be bus tours of the 105-year-old Anaconda smoke stack throughout Saturday and Sunday at a cost of $15. “We take you actually up to the base of the stack, and Atlantic Richfield has ...

Saved from destruction by Anaconda’s citizens, the stack today is the star attraction at the aptly named Anaconda Smoke Stack State Park. It must be viewed at a distance, though, because the ...

The state park designation became the ticket to preservation. Public access to the stack itself remains limited. The Anaconda Smoke Stack State Park offers interpretive signs and a view from a ...

Steve Daines got the lay of the land on Anaconda's Superfund Friday while the quiet valley lay far below. Daines got a rare visit to the 585-foot smoke stack while making stops throughout ...

Below one of Montana’s most recognizable landmarks, the Anaconda Smoke Stack – at 585 feet, 1 1/2 inches, the tallest chimney on the planet from the day it was completed in 1919 until one at a ...

The 506-foot smokestack — supposedly weak enough ... Learn about the smelting in Anaconda at Anaconda Stack State Park. Reach Tribune Staff Writer Kristen Inbody at 791-1490 or by email at ...

Anaconda Smoke Stack State Park, the smallest state park in Montana, where you can view the real Anaconda Company Stack in the distance, get a sense of its actual size (there’s an extremely ...

But citizens of Anaconda led the charge to preserve the ... When the company still operated the smoke stack, the town’s smelter workers and their families gathered for a picnic, a parade ...

The Anaconda stack is 585 feet 1.5 inches tall ... The Washington Monument is still 4.4 inches taller than the Anaconda smokestack. But Carrie points out that the top 8.8 inches of the monument ...

ANACONDA – There are as many as 17,000 bodies buried in Anaconda’s five cemeteries, some of the graveyards sprawling across hillsides overlooking the one-time company town, and you might think ...

Anaconda native Margie Calnan Smith to receive award from Montana Historical Society Board of Trustees for work to preserve the smelter stack and Montana Hotel and to resurrect Smeltermen's Day.