CARBON CEMETERY ASSOCIATION
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HANNA BASIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Spring 2019 Newsletter
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Calander of Coming Events
Friday, May 3
2 pm Hanna Basin Historical Society Annual Meeting at Hanna Museum
Sunday, May 26
10 am Memorial Day Service - Carbon Cemetery
12:00 - 1:30 pm Free Lunch at the Hanna Recreation Center
12:00 pm Hanna Basin Museum Open
2:00 pm Memorial Day Services - Hanna Cemetery
12:00 - 1:30 pm Free Lunch at the Hanna Recreation Center
12:00 pm Hanna Basin Museum Open
2:00 pm Memorial Day Services - Hanna Cemetery
Refreshments will be served at the Hanna Basin Museum
Cleanup Day at Carbon Cemetery
This year there is no designated day due to the excellent condition of the cemetery. Families are urged to tidy their own plots; please, no mowing outside plots. Native grasses and forms are returning to the cemetery after seeding and the wet winter promises to help.
New Exhibit Coming to Museum
Service stations, existing in isolated towns and locations, enabled travel on the Lincoln Highway from the earliest days to the coming of the interstate system. Often family owned, they offered fuel, mechanical aid, perhaps food, shelter, and more. Selecting these enterprises for Historic Properties Treatment for the Shirley Basin to the Jim Bridger Segment of the Gateway West Transmission Project will document these forgotten, essential contributors to mobile America. While the Coyote Springs Station will provide the center for the exhibit at the Hanna Basin Museum, every related service facility parallel to this segment of the transmission line will be honored.
A phased approach will be used for development and implementation of the museum exhibit. The first phase of mitigation will consist of an inventory of the Anderson family’s collection related to the Lincoln Highway. This phase will also include an assessment of available space at the Hanna Basin Museum and surrounding property.
The second phase will consist of the development of an interpretive plan, design plan, marketing plan, and implementation plan for the exhibit. The interpretive plan will present a research theme and topics for the exhibit, referencing historic and modern documents about the Lincoln Highway. The design plan will present the design of the exhibit, based on the inventory of the Anderson family’s collection and the assessment of space in or near the Hanna Basin Museum. The marketing plan will contain the approach for publicizing the exhibit to the public. The implementation plan will present the approach for installing the exhibit. These plans will be developed in consultation with the BLM; the signatories, invited signatories, and concurring parties to the PA; and other interesting parties invited to participate by the BLM.
The Proponent will contract a professional exhibit designer to develop the exhibit plans and oversee implementation of the plans. The BLM will conduct regularly scheduled meetings with the signatories, invited signatories, and concurring parties to the PA and other interesting parties invited by the BLM to update them on the progress of the mitigation. The exhibit plans will contain milestones and timelines for implementation. The Proponent will implement the exhibit plans and BLM will approve the implementation within 3 years after the completion of construction.
(Historic Properties Treatment Plan for the Shirley Basin to Jim Bridger Segment of the Gateway West Transmission Line Project)
A phased approach will be used for development and implementation of the museum exhibit. The first phase of mitigation will consist of an inventory of the Anderson family’s collection related to the Lincoln Highway. This phase will also include an assessment of available space at the Hanna Basin Museum and surrounding property.
The second phase will consist of the development of an interpretive plan, design plan, marketing plan, and implementation plan for the exhibit. The interpretive plan will present a research theme and topics for the exhibit, referencing historic and modern documents about the Lincoln Highway. The design plan will present the design of the exhibit, based on the inventory of the Anderson family’s collection and the assessment of space in or near the Hanna Basin Museum. The marketing plan will contain the approach for publicizing the exhibit to the public. The implementation plan will present the approach for installing the exhibit. These plans will be developed in consultation with the BLM; the signatories, invited signatories, and concurring parties to the PA; and other interesting parties invited to participate by the BLM.
The Proponent will contract a professional exhibit designer to develop the exhibit plans and oversee implementation of the plans. The BLM will conduct regularly scheduled meetings with the signatories, invited signatories, and concurring parties to the PA and other interesting parties invited by the BLM to update them on the progress of the mitigation. The exhibit plans will contain milestones and timelines for implementation. The Proponent will implement the exhibit plans and BLM will approve the implementation within 3 years after the completion of construction.
(Historic Properties Treatment Plan for the Shirley Basin to Jim Bridger Segment of the Gateway West Transmission Line Project)
Big Boy is Returning
Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the opening of the first transcontinental railway," The Big Boy Steam Engine is headed to Promontory Point for the driving of the Golden Spike in Utah.
The train will depart from Cheyenne, Wyoming headed to Ogden, Utah. The original line went through Carbon where the coal fields fueled the first locomotives. The train will be stopping in Hanna on May 17, 2019, at 9:00 am on the tracks across from the Hanna Museum.
The train will depart from Cheyenne, Wyoming headed to Ogden, Utah. The original line went through Carbon where the coal fields fueled the first locomotives. The train will be stopping in Hanna on May 17, 2019, at 9:00 am on the tracks across from the Hanna Museum.
Wyoming Airmail
This year the Society purchased postal stamps, cachets, and framed memorabilia which commemorate the beginning of airmail service in the USA.
Our area of Wyoming was part of this first system.
The airstrip at Medicine Bow served planes flying their routes. There were beacon lights throughout the area to help guide the planes at night. The airstrip at Medicine Bow is now on the National Register of Historic Places.
The new postal acquisitions will be on display at the museum by Memorial Day.
The Carbon and Hanna Basins - Corridor of Transportation and Communication
The Gateway West Transmission Project follows a well-established path through the Carbon and Hanna Basins. In historic times, Native American trails were followed by the Iron Road, the Union Pacific Railway and its telegraph line. Close upon the U.P.R.R came the Lincoln Highway and the first transcontinental airmail route.
In a natural progression, energy, in the forms of underground pipelines and overhead transmission lines, now share the path. Hanna Basin Museum offers visitors glimpses into the history of this corridor.
The Corliss Love Harris Collection of Toys, Games, and Books
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Remember paper dolls, wind-up toy cars, wooden Monopoly pieces, and Little Golden Books? Visitors will delight in sharing these with their children and grandchildren through the Corliss Love Harris collection. Obviously well-loved, cared for, but used, this collection documents the well-supplied toy chest from the 1930s through the 1950s.
Corliss declared the vintage baby dolls her favorites from the collection. "They were my family." The members of the Hanna Basin Historical Society's board and faithful long-time museum helper Mary Lou Ellis made choices. The collection prompted fond memories. Pam Paulson selected the Dolly Dingle paper dolls:" I remember waiting anxiously for the McCall's magazine so I could cut out the paper dolls and clothes...." Pam shared her love of the paper dolls with her daughter and granddaughters. Sue Tlustos chose the cardboard village. "It reminded me of a similar cardboard farm I loved when I was young." Both Mary Lou Ellis and Lacene Ostling admired the miniature nursery furniture from the 1930s. Mary Lou commented on the vanity and highchair, "I had never seen that before and thought it was so cute." Lacene remembered a similar highchair which she used for both her doll and her cat. Seamstress and quilter Diana Springsguth wished her childhood had included the miniature hand crank sewing machine. Nancy Anderson coveted the Steiff Coco monkey (with the button in his ear, no less). "Bears, bears everywhere, at last a stuffed monkey from the 1930s." |
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The Hanna Basin Museum is a private 501(3)c, not for profit organization, and relies on support from members to keep the doors open and to support community programs at both the museum and the cemetery. Membership and Support Form. Simply print and fill out this form and send it with your check to:
Hanna Basin Historical Society
502 Front Street / P.O. Box 252
Hanna, Wyoming 82327
Name: _____________________________________
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On this form or on your check, please specify the recipient of your donation.
$____________________________ Single Membership in the Hanna Basin Historical Society $5.00
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Hanna Basin Historical Society
502 Front Street / P.O. Box 252
Hanna, Wyoming 82327
Name: _____________________________________
Address: ___________________________________
City: ______________________________________
State: ______________________________________ Zip: __________________________________
On this form or on your check, please specify the recipient of your donation.
$____________________________ Single Membership in the Hanna Basin Historical Society $5.00
$ ____________________________Family Membership in the Hanna Basin Historical Society $10.00
$ ____________________________Donation to the Hanna Basin Museum
$____________________________ Donation to the Carbon Cemetery