2025 MONTANA GHOST TOWN PRESERVATION SOCIETY CONVENTION SEPTEMBER 11-13, 2025 BUTTE MONTANA TENTATIVE SCHEDULE AS OF 5/21/25

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 11

4:00PM – 8:00PM – Registration & Motel Check-In – Finlin Hotel Lobby Pickup Name Tag and Info Packet

7:00PM – 9:00PM – Early Arrivals Board Trolley at Finlin for Spooks & Spirits Tour 9:00PM – Arrive back at Finlin – Sweet dreams of the Spooks & Spirits of Butte

FRIDAY , SEPTEMBER 1 2

8:00AM – 9:30AM – Registration - Location Finlin Hotel Lobby Pick up Name Tag and Info Packet 8:00AM – 9:30AM – Continental Breakfast in the Copper Bowl Room

9:00AM – History of the Finlin – during breakfast 9:30:-Walk or Drive to Community Archives for tour (about 3 blocks)

10:00AM – Tour of Archives, Q&A and time in the reading room

11:30PM – Lunch at the Archives

12:00PM – Women of Butte – Speaker – Assist. Archives Director

1:45PM – Everyone back to Finlin

1:00PM – Group A -Trolley pick up at Finlin & delivers to Tech. Mineral Museum for Tour

1:15PM - 2:15PM 1:15PM – Group B – Trolley picks up at Finlin - Historic Tour to the Memorial

1:30 -2:30PM 2:30PM – Group B – Trolley drop off at Mineral Museum

2:30PM – 3:30PM 2:30PM – Group A -Trolley picks up from Mineral Museum - Historic Tour to the Memorial

2:30PM-3:30PM 3:30PM – Group A - Trolley drops off at Finlin

3:45PM – Group B - Trolley picks up Group B from Mineral Museum & delivers to Finlin

4:00PM – 6:00PM – No Host Cocktails – Finlin Lounge

6:00PM – Business Meeting - Copper Bowl Room at the Finlin 1

6:30PM – Dinner - Copper Bowl Room at the Finlin

7:00PM – Speaker – Foods of Butte (Not sure this is the title) Kehli Hazlett Time to kick up your heels and visit a speakeasy or some of Butte’s famous miner bars

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13

8:00AM-9:30AM - Continental Breakfast in the Copper Bowl Room

8:00AM – 12:30PM – Visit Butte Farmers’ Market and Breakfast on your own. Time for a little exploring.

12:45PM - GROUP A - Trolley picks up from Finlin & delivers to Mai Wah Museum Tour

1:00PM – 2:30 PM 1:00PM – GROUP B – Trolley picks up from Finlin & delivers to Berkley Pit or Memorial & Historic Tour

1:15PM – 2:15PM 2:30PM – Group B- Trolley drops off at Mai Wah Tour

2:45PM – 4:15PM

2:45PM – GROUP A – Trolley picks up from Mai Way & delivers to Berkley Pit or Memorial & Historic Tour

2:45 – 3:45PM

4:30PM – Group A – Trolley drops off at the Finlin

4:45PM – Group B –Trolley picks up from Mai Wah, deliver to the Finlin

4:30PM – 6:45PM – Dinner on your own

7:00PM – Board Trolley at the Finlin for Spooks and Spirits Tour - $25 per person –

9:00PM – Arrive back at the Finlin

2025 Montana Ghost Town Preservation Society Conference Ends

TIME TO EXPLORE BUTTE SEE YOU NEXT YEAR! NOTES:

The Trolley will accommodate 24 – 26 people. We will offer the Spooks and Spirits Tour on both Thursday and Saturday nights in order to accommodate all attendees since it will be included in their registration fees.

We have a block of rooms at the Finlin. First reservations will have rooms in the historic hotel. Later reservations MAY be in the Motor Inn that is part of the Finlin and right next door. The Motor Inn is pet friendly whereas the Finlin is not. The room rates are:(includes taxes & fees)

HISTORIC FINLIN HOTEL

Queen - $134.10 2 guests

King - $143.10 2 guests

2 Queens - $161. 10

4 guests Suite- $179.10 2 guests

MOTOR INN – Pet Friendly – next door to Finlin

1 Queen - $116.10 2 guests

1 King & 1 Queen - $134.10 4 guests

We are getting the KOA campground information as well.

REASONS FOR MOVING THE DATES:

1. The Finlin has a large Wedding scheduled for Saturday evening we couldn’t have dinner or meeting there. There might be a shortage of rooms as well.

2. The Mineral Museum at Montana Tech is only open on weekdays as they are shorthanded and most of the students are gone for the summer.

3. The Archives are only open on weekdays as well and we felt this would be a very interesting tour and experience for our members. We have also chosen to have one of the staff do a presentation on the Women of Butte. That talk comes highly recommended. The Archives have a large meeting room where we can have lunch catered in and we can listen to the speaker there.

4. Sandy and I have looked at the schedules from the last times the conference was held in Butte and we wanted to not have our total focus be on mining but rather some interesting historical facts about Butte people.

5. We wanted to allow time for our members to do some exploring on their own. Sandy and I have learned so much by just visiting with the Butte residents and visiting the various shops. Sunday is a great time to do just that. Individual tours can be set up of some of the other historic landmarks on Sunday. We will make all that info available.