502 Front St,
PO Box 25
Hanna 82327
Open: Summer - Friday, Saturday and Sunday afternoons 1 to 5 pm
Winter - Friday afternoon and
by appointment
307-324-3915 or 325-9424
PRIMARY AREAS OF INTEREST:
Coal Mining and the Company Town:
Carbon, first coal camp on the
original Union Pacific
Railroad, as seen through the
lens of its burial ground.
Hanna, successor to Carbon and company town
North Country History: in their own words, homesteaders and ranchers
describe living in the expanse of open country north of Hanna.
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John Linden's Saloon in Hanna 1908, remodeled into the Union
Pacific Coal Company Clubhouse in 1931. It is now the Hanna Basin
Museum and is listed on the the National Register of Historic Places |
Lora Webb Nichols: Homesteader's Daughter, Miner's Bride is taken
from the personal papers of a Wyoming pioneer; this volume presents her
early years to her years as a young wife and mother (1883-1904) Coming to
to the Upper Platte Valley as a child in 1884 and remaining there much of
her life, Lora Nichols documented, through words and images: the homestead,
the ranch, and the tie camp, the copper boom and its characters and
villages, the changes to rural Wyoming as it moved into the new century.
Lora's life, seemingly so ordinary, became extraordinary through her work,
full of spontaneous feeling and yet exhibiting an objectivity which makes
her life universal and memorable.
Below are photos taken
and copyrighted by Lora Nichols. These photos are the property of the
Grand Encampment Museum
and should not used without their permission.
