Hanna Happenings

Page by Bob Leathers with contributions from family and friends.
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Steam Engine 844 at Hanna (Image by Bob Leathers)

1800

1865:
1865 April 15:
1865 June 19:
  • The Abolition of slavery was announced by Union soldiers in Galveston, Texas. The combination of June and 19th became a day to celebrate the end of slavery in the United States. The move West had begun. 
1868:
1868 June 30:
1868:
1868:
  • It took a lot of manpower to keep the Hanna Basin Coal Mines running. The Union Pacific Railway and the Union Pacific Coal Company Mine Officials, or commonly called Company Men, overlapped over the years. 
1868:
1868:
  • In the early years of underground Coal Mining, Superstitions in the Coal Mines: Tommyknockers, Knockers, Demons, Gnomes and Fairies were commonplace beliefs. 
1868: 
  • The Union Pacific's Carbon No. 1 Underground Mine was opened in 1868 and abandoned at the end of 1881 because all the mineable coal had been removed for the mine. The No. 1 was opened as a shaft mine, which may have been the only shaft mine in the Hanna Basin. 
1868:
1869:
1878 August 19: 
  • ​A gang of outlaws, which included “Dutch Charlie” Burris and “Big Nose George” Parrott, attempted to rob a Union Pacific Railroad train east of Carbon near Como Lake. Two days later the gang murdered Carbon County Sheriff Robert "Bob" Widdowfield and Union Pacific Railroad Special Agent H. H. “Tip” Vincent at the base of Elk Mountain.
1880:
  • The Union Pacific's No. 5 Underground Mine at Carbon was situated five miles straight north of the town of Carbon. The mine was opened in 1880 and abandoned in 1885.
1880:
  • The Union Pacific's No. 6 Underground Mine at Carbon was opened for production in 1880 and abandoned at the end of 1890 because all the mineable coal had been removed.
1881:
  • The Carbon City Union Pacific Railroad station, coal office, and agents’ residence, were moved about half mile east of the city to facilitate coal shipments.
1885 June 17: 
  • The Statue of Liberty, a gift from the people of France, arrived in New York Harbor. The statue stood watch over more than 12 million immigrants who sailed into New York Harbor. Many of those immigrants would end up in Carbon and Hanna.
1886:
  • According to the report of Mine Inspector P. J. Quealy, 234, 288 tons were mined at Carbon. 
1887:
  • ​The Union Pacific coal mines at Carbon, Wyoming were operating, but the mineable coal was diminishing. A new source of coal was needed. A new source was found at Chimney Springs, which would later become Hanna. 
​​1888:
1888:
  • ​The Hanna town site at Chimney Springs was surveyed and the area explored for coal mine locations. Mark Hanna​, at the request of the Union Pacific Railroad, toured the Wyoming coal mines. On his trip he visited the newly discovered coal fields at Chimney Springs for possible expansion. He recommended the coal field be developed. When the decision to move the coal operation from Carbon to Hanna was made, the coal site at Chimney Springs was named Hanna after Mark Hanna.
1888:
  • The Wyoming Territorial Assembly sent the United States Congress a petition for admission to the Union. 
1889:
  • The Union Pacific Coal Company towns of Carbon and Hanna overlapped coal production for 13 years from 1889 to 1902. 
1889:
  • The Union Pacific Coal Company's No. 1 Underground Mine in Hanna was the first mine opened for coal production in Hanna. The mine and town were developed in 1889 and 1890.
1889:
1889 June 2:​
  • Butch Cassidy [Robert Leroy Parker] and the Sundance Kid [Harry Longabaugh] along with the rest of the Wild Bunch robbed the Union Pacific Overland Flyer No. 1 a few miles east of Old Carbon and Hanna at Wilcox, Wyoming. 
1889 January 30:
  • The United States Post Office Department established a Post Office at Hanna and appointed George F. Doane as postmaster.
1889 September 30:
  • Wyoming approved the first state constitution to grant women in Hanna the right to vote.
1889:
  • ​Workers spent their time in Hanna developing the Union Pacific Coal Company's No. 1 Mine and No. 2 Mine and building the town. Living conditions in Hanna during the winter of 1889 were difficult. The workers lived in tents and were exposed to the winter weather with little protection from Wyoming's cold and windy conditions.
1889:
  • The town of Hanna experienced rapid growth.
April 28, 1890:
1890 February:
  • About two hundred Black men and women from Ohio arrived in the coal mining town of Dana, Wyoming in the middle of winter. They were the first group of Black miners recruited to Wyoming by the Union Pacific Coal Company. The Black miners were brought in as strikebreakers. (Rediscovering Dana: The Forgotten Black Coal Miners of Southern Wyoming by Brigida R. Blasi)
1890 June 19:
  • A fierce fire broke out in Carbon and burned most of the business district to the ground. A few reports indicate the fire started in the Scranton House hotel where a guest knocked over a kerosene lamp. The fire fighters even tried dynamiting a few buildings in hopes of stopping the fire from spreading, but their efforts were not successful. Immediately after the fire, the people and businesses started rebuilding the town and new laws and ordinances were passed to help avoid such a thing happening again.
1890 July 10:
  • Wyoming was admitted to the union. President Benjamin Harrison signed the Wyoming statehood bill, making Wyoming the 44th state in the union. The new town of Hanna celebrated.
1890: 
  • The United States census materials of 1890, including Wyoming's, were destroyed in 1921when a building caught fire.
1890:
1890:
  • Wyoming’s population was 62,555 people, 6,857 of which were living in Carbon County. 
1890: 
  • ​The Union Pacific Coal Company was organized as a subsidiary of the Union Pacific Railroad to oversee Wyoming coal mining.
1890:
  • Coal miners in Wyoming were typically paid by the ton. Miners working for the Union Pacific Coal Company demanded the coal company reduce the weight of a ton of coal from 2,250 pounds to 2,000 pounds, called a short ton.
1890: 
  • ​Additional housing was built in Hanna. R. B. Dykerman was contracted to build fifty new four-room houses in Hanna for the Union Pacific Coal Company.
1890:
  • The original Hanna Methodist Church was built.
1891:
  • A boarding house and hospital were built, along with 160 new houses in Hanna for miners to live in.
1891, May 23:
1891 November 19:
  • The Hanna mines loaded 1,300 tons of coal in one day, a state record at the time.
1891 September:
  • ​The new Hanna School had its first class of students.​​
1891 November:
  • The principal of the Hanna school was Mr. Cuddlebeck. He arranged for some money-making entertainment at the school during Christmas with the proceeds going to buy maps and other school supplies. 
1892 January 1:
  • Ellis Island opened as a place to process immigrants coming into the United States. Some of those immigrants were headed to Hanna, Wyoming.
​​1892:
  • ​​1892: The mine foreman in charge of developing the first Union Pacific Coal Company mines in Hanna, Joseph "Joe" Cox, was transferred from Hanna to Gray Creek, Colorado, as superintendent of the mines located there. He later became a private owner of two coal mines in Aguilar, Colorado.
1892:
1893 September 1:
  • The Finnish Miners in Hanna, numbering about 200, ran the Mine Boss, Archie Raite, out of town by threatening to murder him if he did not leave. He was accused of refusing to give the miners necessary mining materials such as ties, rails, etc. and using language not becoming to any man when dealing with others.
1893:
  • The Outlaw Pete Anderson, or "Rattlesnake" Pete as he was called, was a thief in the town of Carbon, Wyoming. He stole Coffee Johnson's unique and valuable coin collection and made his way to Denmark.
1893 October 13:
1894:
  • Labor Day became a federal holiday to be observed the first Monday in September. It was created to pay tribute to the contribution and achievements of American workers. Labor Day in Hanna was one of the most celebrated holidays.
1895:
  • The Hanna Community Hall was built. Originally named Linden Hall, the building served as a saloon during the town’s early years and as a pool hall during prohibition. Today, it serves as the Hanna Basin Museum. On November 26, 1983, it was listed on the National Register of Historic places.
1895:
  • Thomas Jackson moved his Clothing Store from Carbon to Hanna. His store, along with the Beckworth Commercial Company, were two of the few that were allowed in the town of Hanna which were not wholly owned by the Union Pacific Coal Company.
1899:
  • The Union Pacific Coal Company's Carbon No. 7 Underground Mine, also known as the Sand Creek mine, was located about two miles south of the town of Carbon. The mine opened in July 1899 and was abandoned April 30, 1902. The mine turned out to have poor quality coal with the coal seams full of impurities.
1899:
  • The Hanna miners were paid 70 cents a ton for mined coal. The cost of coal loaded on railroad cars was $1.10 a ton.

1900

1900:
  • ​Wyoming's population was 92,531 people; Carbon County was home to 9,589 of them.
1900: 
  • The price paid to Hanna Miners for mining coal was 65 cents a ton.
1900: 
  • The two-story Finn Hall was moved from Carbon to Hanna. The Finnish miners moved the hall by hand seven miles from Carbon to the Hanna. The hall was originally placed near the first school.
1900:
  • The first Methodist/Episcopal Church meetings were held at the Union Pacific Railroad depot.
1901 February: 
  • ​Mail service via railroad from Allen Junction to Carbon was discontinued.
1901 September 6:
  • President William McKinley was assassinated. He became the third U.S. president to be assassinated after he was fatally shot at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt became president when McKinley died. 
1902: 
  • ​The Union Pacific’s Carbon No. 7 Mine, also known as the Sand Creek mine, located about two miles south of Carbon was abandoned. The mine opened in 1899. The coal turned out to be poor in quality with the coal seams full of impurities.
1902 June:
  • ​All the mines at Carbon were abandoned. The salvageable mining equipment was removed from the mines and moved or sold to other mines in the area. The coal chutes for fueling trains were torn down. The railroad track from Carbon to the No. 7 Sand Creek mine was taken up and moved elsewhere. 
1902:
  • Property owners in Carbon were selling off their homes and businesses to any buyer they could find. The Union Pacific Coal Company was moving out of Carbon, so the town was finished.
1903 June 30:
1903 August 8:
  • The Coroner's Inquest was published for the Union Pacific Coal Company's June 30, 1903 explosion of Hanna Mine No. 1, which killed 169 men. The report consisted of questions and answers from the miners that survived the explosion.
1904:
  • ​The Hanna mines were working every day, and it was reported that any man who was a coal miner would not be out of work an hour after his arrival.
1904:
  • Eleven months after the June 30, 1903 explosion, the Union Pacific Coal Company No. 1 Mine was back to normal coal production. This proved to be a fast recovery for a mine that was decimated by a violent explosion. The rush to normal production, according to a mine inspector at the time, was one the primary causes of the March 28, 1908 explosion, killing an additional 59 men. 
1905 June 13:
1905 December 2:
  • ​An explosion in Diamondville, Wyoming killed 18 coal miners. 
1906:
  • President Theodore Roosevelt established Devil’s Tower as the first U.S. national monument.
1906:
  • The slope or ramp on the No. 2 Dump / Tipple burned and a new Dump was needed to be built. The slope and entrance of the No. 2 Mine was moved from running west and east to running north to south to access a new seam of coal.
1907 April:
  • The average pay for teachers in Hanna was $51.63 a month.
1907 December 6:
  • The coal miners at Hanna took great interest when the Fairmont Coal Company’s Mine exploded in Monongah, West Virginia. The explosion killed 361 Miners. At the time it was the worst mining disaster in American history. 
1907 December 19:
  • At Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania, 239 Miners were killed in a coal mine explosion.
1907:
  • ​The Union Pacific Coal Company formally recognized the United Mine Workers of America as the union representing the Hanna Miners. The Hanna local 2335 was established. All of the union members were employees of the Union Pacific Coal Company. William “Bill” Pascoe was the first president.
1908 March 28:
1908 July 27:
  • ​Noah Young, Wyoming State Mine Inspector - Report to Governor B.B. Brooks - reported the details of the March 28, 1908 explosion of Union Pacific Coal Company's Number 1 mine in Hanna.
1908:
1909 June 14:
1909:
  • The Union Pacific Railroad's articulated Steam Engine Locomotive made its debut. 
1909:
1909: 
  • An electric plant was installed at the No. 2 Mine to haul the coal from the inside workings to the slope by electric locomotives, also called motors. The addition of electricity significantly increased the production and efficiency of the mine.
1909: 
  • The Sampo Mine, located to the east of Elmo, was opened for coal production.
1909: 
1910:
  • Construction of the Union Pacific Railroad's second main line started through Wyoming.
1910:
  • The underground stables at Hanna were removed from the mines. The livestock was now kept outside the mine at the Mule Barn. The mules and horses were now taken to the mine each morning and returned to the barn each evening. This move eliminated the need for flammable materials in the mine. The underground stables that caught fire during the 1903 and 1908 explosions significantly affected the No. 1 Mine, adding to the raging inferno. 
1910: 
  • ​Electric locomotives or motors were installed in all the Union Pacific Coal Company Hanna underground mines, doing away with some of the horse and mule power in the mine. The mines were also equipped with water lines throughout for sprinkling purposes to keep everything damp in hopes of preventing coal dust explosions.
1910: 
  • ​The Wyoming population was 145,965 people, with 11,282 of those living in Carbon County.
1911 October 1:
1911:
  • The Union Pacific Coal Company's No. 4 Underground Mine in Hanna was under development. The No. 4 mine was partially built from parts recovered from the explosion destroyed No. 1 mine. The mine started production of coal in 1912.
1911:
1911:
  • The Lincoln Highway was established. 
1911: 
  • The Virginian Hotel in Medicine Bow opened for business. The hotel was named after Owen Wister's book The Virginian.​
1912:
1912:
  • A coal mine explosion at Cumberland, Wyoming killed six miners and twenty more were injured. The explosion was caused by the ignition of coal dust in the mine. Cumberland is today a ghost town located between Evanston and Kemmerer. 
1912:
  • The last residents of Carbon left the town searching for other places of housing and employment. The town was abandoned.
1912:
1913 November 16:
  • The school at the No. 3 Mine in Hanna burned to the ground. The school caught fire from a new furnace. 
1913:
  • ​The Union Pacific Coal Company's No. 2 mine,​ No. No. 3.5 mine and No. 4 mine installed concrete for all stoppings in Hanna.  The powder boxes at the mines were converted to concrete. The boxes were designed for the miners to store their explosive powder and squibs.
​1914 April 20:
  • The Ludlow Massacre of Colorado Coal Miners occurred. It was an attack by the Colorado National Guard and the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, owned by John D. Rockefeller, on a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners and their families at Ludlow, Colorado. It had a profound affected on the Hanna miners.
1915 September 17:
  • ​The old workings of the Hanna No. 3 Mine caught fire and was left smoldering for years. 
1915, April 1:
  • The Wyoming Workmen's Compensation fund for people injured on the job was established in 1915. ​In Hanna, coal miners experienced many deaths and injuries. The Workman's Compensation was helpful to the miners, but not loved by the coal mining companies.
1915:
  • ​The St. Joseph's Catholic Church was built. The church was originally built and located across from the coal chute on the east end of Hanna.
1916 April 21:
  • William "Wild Bill" Carlisle, the infamous “last train robber,” robbed the passengers on the Union Pacific San Francisco Limited near Hanna, Wyoming.
1916 August 15:
  • The first binding contract between the United Mine Workers of America and the Southern Wyoming Coal Operations was reached and became effective in the Hanna mines. The agreement was entered into by the parties' covering wages and working conditions in local fields of Southern Wyoming by and between representatives of the United Mine Workers of America, District No. 22, and the Southern Wyoming Coal Operators, for a two-year period beginning September 1, 1916 and ending August 31, 1918. In this agreement it was definitely understood and was agreed upon that the contract was based on an eight-hour day.
1916 August 19:
  • The first annual First Aid Competition was held at Rock Springs, Wyoming at the baseball park. Miners from Hanna participated.
1916: 
1917 April 6:
  • The United States entered World War I. In Europe, World War I started in 1914.
1917:
1917 November 1:
1917:
  • The Hanna School was closed and public events canceled from an outbreak of Scarlet Fever.
1917:​
1918 August 6: 
  • Peter Arthurs, Hanna resident: (World War I Casualty) PRIVATE, U. S. ARMY 58th INFANTRY REGIMENT, 4th DIVISION, was killed in action August 6, 1918 and buried at Oise-Aisne American Cemetery, Fere-en-Tardenois, France in Plot B, Row 7, Grave 6. No monument is located in the Hanna Wyoming cemetery. He was 23 years old.
1918 October 13:
  • ​William D. Jones, Hanna resident: (World War I Casualty) PRIVATE, COMPANY E, 30th INFANTRY, died October 13, 1918 from wounds received in action. He was buried in the Hanna cemetery in plot 72. He was 26 years old.
1918: November 11:
  • World War I ended at the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918. The First World War left nine million soldiers dead and 21 million wounded. In addition, at least five million civilians died.
1918:
  • A flu pandemic hit the United States. It hit the Hanna area especially hard causing as many as 40 deaths.
1918:
1918:
  • The Union Pacific Coal Company’s No. 5 Underground Mine was opened, but the coal was of poor quality resulting in no coal production. The No. 5 mine was closed within a year and never reopened. No miners were killed in the No. 5 mine.
1919 June 30: 
  • Prohibition of alcohol started in Wyoming. ​Statewide prohibition of alcohol was voted on by the people of Wyoming, including Hanna, in the fall of 1918; legislation was passed in February 1919; and the law took effect June 30, 1919.
 1919:
  • Extensive upgrading and repairs were done to the Hanna streets, ditches and roads.
1920 January 29:
  • Prohibition of Alcohol in the United States started. Prohibition ended in 1933.
1920 May 28:
  • The first Twelfth Grade Graduation in Hanna took place. Up to this date, the community only experienced Eighth Grade Graduations. The school adopted orange and blue as school colors. 
1920 June 30:
1920 July 4:
1920 September 8:
  • The first transcontinental airmail flight across southern Wyoming occurred. The DeHavilland biplane, piloted by Buck Heffron, carried 400 pounds of mail on its westward flight from the east coast.
1920: August 18:
  • The 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified giving women in the Hanna Basin the right to vote.
1920's:
  • The Ku Klux Klan moved into Wyoming. It is not clear at this time the effect the Klan had on the population of Hanna.
1920: 
  • Wyoming's population was 194,402 people with 9,525 of those living in Carbon County.
1921:
  • The use of Black Powder as an explosive was eliminated from the Hanna mines. All coal was now shot with permissible powder.
1921 February 21:
1922 February 27:
  • The United States Supreme Court unanimously declared that the 19th Amendment allowing women the right to vote was constitutional.
1922 September 9:
  • The Union Pacific Railroad's 7000 class Sports Model Steam Engines made their debut. 
1922:
1922:
1922:
1922:
  • The Union Pacific Coal Company Miners in Hanna went on strike. The strike lasted four months and twenty days, and strange to say, when operations were resumed the demand for coal was not good. The poor conditions were the direct result of Utah and Colorado miners working during the strike and making new customers for them. This weakened the market for Wyoming coal. Both Utah and Colorado showed substantial increases in their production over the previous year.
1922: 
  • A new Dump / Tipple was built for the No. 2 mine. The original Tipple, Boiler House and Powder House were destroyed by fire. The new dump was equipped with modern shakers and an advanced crusher. 
1922: 
  • ​The Union Pacific Coal Company's boiler house located just behind or west of the No. 4 mine on the north side of the railroad tracks was modernized. A large concrete addition was built onto the boiler house. An 8" steam line was constructed from the No. 4 mine to the No. 2 mine for hoist and heating purposes at No. 2 mine.
1922: 
  • ​The Union Pacific Coal Company introduced the position of Safety Inspector to all their mines in Hanna. The position was to be recognized as important as that the mine foreman, fire boss or driver boss, and was to be valued as such.
1922: 
1923:
  • Eugene McAuliffe, President of the Union Pacific Coal Company, championed the modernization of the Hanna mines. A difficult period of experimentation and modernization began.
1923 August 14:
  • The Frontier coal mine near Kemmerer exploded killing 99 men. 
1924 May:
1924 June:
  • The Union Pacific Coal Company's Old Timers' Association was created. Many of the initial members were from Carbon and Hanna.
1924 April 1:
  • The annual celebration in honor of the "Eight Hour Day" was observed. The school age students were provided with a free picture show, along with oranges and candy. The adults celebrated with a fee dance in the evening. The Reverend Doctor Lackland from the Denver, Colorado addressed the public at the Hanna Opera House that evening with a speech about Education for the Laborer.
1924 September 16:
  • The Kemmerer Coal Company's No. 5 Mine in Kemmerer exploded killing 39 men.
1924 November 4: 
  • Nellie T. Ross of Wyoming was elected the nation's first woman governor. She served the remaining term of William B. Ross, her husband who died in office. 
1924:
  • The African American people of Hanna purchased the old M. E. Church.
1924:
  • The safety procedure of Rock Dusting the mine, started in Hanna. Rock dust was sprayed on all the entries, slopes, hallways, etc. to help eliminate coal dust accumulation and possible explosions. 
1924:
  • ​Hanna High School's first School Superintendent was W. W. Snyder. He held that position for 1924 - 1926. 
1924:
  • ​The first Hanna High School Gym was built. Up to this date the school went without a gym. The sport teams played in old mining buildings around town. 
1924:
  • Coal Mine disasters in the United States killed 2,341 men.
1925 January 5:
  • ​Nellie Taylor Ross, in Cheyenne, Wyoming was sworn in as the first woman governor in the United States. She was elected to complete the term of her husband who died in office. She served from 1925 to 1927. In 1933, President Roosevelt appointed her the first woman to head the U. S. Mint, a position she held until 1953.
1925 March 1:
  • Mary Ford and her husband purchased the Hanna Hotel from Mr. and Mrs. John Cole.
1925 June 13:  
  • The first reunion of the Union Pacific Coal Company’s Old Timers’ Association was held in Rock Springs. Many from the Hanna Basin attended. 
1925 November 22: 
1925 November:
  • The Union Pacific Railroad completed the Hanna Stockyards which were located near the old Union Pacific Coal Company's No. 1 Mine. It was reported as heavily used in the early days.
1925 Sunday December 14:
  • A dedication service was held at the Colored Baptist Church honoring the purchase and erection of the new church.
1925:
1925:
  • The Union Pacific Coal Company’s No. 3.5 Mine in Hanna was abandoned because the mine had been worked out. The mine opened in 1912. 
1926 February 19:
  • The first Annual Hanna Old Timers' celebration and dance was held at the First Aid Hall in Hanna. Over one hundred guests were present at the event. The Old Timers honored were men having twenty or more years of service with the Union Pacific Coal Company.
1926 Friday October 1:
  • Hanna played its first football game. They played Saratoga at Saratoga. This was the beginning of a long and exciting rivalry between Hanna and Saratoga.​
1926 April 1:
  • In cooperation with the United Mine Workers of America, Hanna celebrated the Eight Hour Day. All the business places were closed during the day and a free picture show was provided in the afternoon, along with candy and oranges, for the children. In the evening, a free dance was held for the adults.
1926 March:
1926 May 22:
  • The Hanna Girl Scout team of Leone Tate, Captain; Muriel Crawford; Edith Crawford; Helen Renny; Eileen Cook; Lucille Wright and A. H. Royce, instructor won first place at the First Aid Contest in Rock Springs. This was a big deal for the citizens of Hanna.
1926 October 2:
  • A large crowd was at the Hanna Opera House to hear Governor Nellie Tayloe Ross, Wyoming's first woman governor, speak. According to Hanna officials, the talk was very interesting and much enjoyed by the Hanna people.
1926:
  • The Hanna Opera House burned down. Strong winds created a huge blaze and the building burned to the ground in a short period of time. Community and school activities, such as movies and graduation held at the Opera House, were moved to the Community Hall.
1926:
1927 April:
1927 April: 
1927 September 6:
  • The Hanna School opened with a new department - a kindergarten was added for the first time.
1927: 
  • ​The United Mine Workers of America organized a Hospital Commission in Hanna. The Commission obtained the old school, which had been turned into a boarding house, and created the Hanna Hospital to take care of the Hanna Miners and their families. The hospital was in operation until the Union Pacific Coal Company Mines were closed in February of 1954.
1927 November 19:
  • The new Union Pacific Coal Company's Hanna Amusement Center under the management of the Love Family was opened. First on the program was the American flag flashing on the screen and the National Anthem sung by Mr. Jack Lee, after which Mr. Butler gave an address which was followed by the picture "McFadden Flats." A very large audience attended.
1927 November 23:
  • The first dance was held at the new Hanna Amusement Center. The dance was sponsored by the American Legion. The music was provided by the Saratoga Orchestra.
1928 March 15:
  • The coal mining town of Cambria, Wyoming ended coal production and was abandoned. Some of the unemployed coal miners from Cambria moved to Hanna in search of work. The first shipment of coal from Cambria took place in 1899.
1929:
  • The Great Depression started. It was a period of severe global economic downturn that occurred from 1929 to 1941. It was characterized by high rates of unemployment and poverty, drastic reductions in industrial production, trade and widespread bank and business failures around the world. The Stock Market crashed. The Great Depression was deep and hard felt in Wyoming and the Hanna Basin. Twenty-five Wyoming banks failed.  Hanna's bank - the Carbon State Bank - First National Bank of Hanna - Hanna State and Savings Bank survived the economic downturn.
1929 February 14: ​
  • Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin. The drug was credited for saving many lives in Hanna.
1929:
  • Albert B. Fall, who served as secretary of the interior in President Warren G. Harding’s cabinet, is found guilty of accepting a bribe while in office. ​He was found guilty in the Teapot Dome scandal involving the valuable oil lease at Teapot Dome naval oil reserve in Wyoming.
1929:
  • The talking movies came to Hanna when Thomas Love equipped the Hanna Theater with an R. C. A. Photophone machine.
1929:
  • The Union Pacific Coal Company in Hanna received a Lindbergh Citation from the famous Charles Lindbergh. for painting the building name on the roof of each of their buildings. 
1929:
  • President Calvin Coolidge established the Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. It was a favorite vacation spot for many living in Hanna.
1929: 
  • ​Union Pacific Coal Company opened the Hanna No. 6 Underground Mine. It operated for a little over three years and closed in 1933 because the No. 4 mine was producing enough coal to meet the railroad's needs.
1929: 
1929: 
1929:
1930:
  • The average Hanna Miner made $7.00 a day in wages.
1930:
  • There were 1,221 accidental injuries in the Union Pacific Coal Company mines in 1930, with a loss of 13,223 days of missed work at an average wage of $7.00 a day for a loss of $92,561.00 in wages.
1930:
  • Wyoming population was 225,565 people with 11,391 of those living in Carbon County. 
1931:
1931 September 19: 
  • The Union Pacific Coal Company remodeled the Community Hall​ in Hanna. The outside coal bin and several storage sheds in the rear of the building were removed and a kitchen, library and new light fixtures were added to the interior of the building. The Hanna Community Hall was now the site of community events such as family gatherings, dances, parties, weddings and funerals. Boy Scout meetings, lodge meetings and various other community programs were also held at the Community Hall.
1932, October 2:
  • ​A Hanna Miners' Monument, carved by Hugh Renny, was erected in honor of the men who lost their lives in the two disasters of the No. 1 Mine.
1932:
  • A Hanna School Teacher earned $1,433.70 a year or $159.30 a month. If the teacher should marry, the contract was automatically terminated.
1932:
1932:
1933 December 5:
  • Prohibition of Alcohol in Hanna and the United States as a whole, ended. 
1933 September:
  • The total enrollment of the Hanna High School was 155 students. This number included: 10 postgraduates, 25 seniors, 17 juniors, 27 sophomores, 24 freshmen and 52 Jr. High students.
​1933:
1933:
  • ​Congress authorized the Civilian Conservation Corps, known as the CCC. Many Hanna men were involved in this program.
1933:
  • ​Union Pacific Coal Company’s No. 6 Mine in Hanna was abandoned. The mine was developed in 1929 and opened for production of coal in 1930. It operated for a little over three years and was closed in 1933.
1934 February 12:
  • The Union Pacific Railroad's M-10000 Streamliners made their debut. 
​1934:
1934:
1935 August:
  • ​The Union Pacific Railroad was the first railroad to employ nurse-stewardesses on passenger trains. In August 1935, Florette Welp became the first to hold this post. Every candidate was required to be a registered nurse between 21 and 24 years old. 
1935 August 14:
  • President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law the Social Security Act that guaranteed an income for the unemployed and retirees.
1936:
  • Steamboat, the bucking horse, first appeared on the Wyoming license plates.
1936: 
1936: 
1936: 
  • The United Mine Workers of American organized local union No. 7247 to represent the employees of the new Nugget Mine. The union would represent the workers until the mine sold in 1958. The new owners in 1958 would refuse to accept the United Mine Workers as the bargaining agent for the workers.
1937:
1937:
  • ​United Mine Workers of American organized local union No. 7502 to represent the workers of the Monolith Portland Midwest Coal Company’s workers.
1939 May:
  • Hanna High School graduates would now pay $16.25 per quarter in general fees, which included a health fee from the University medical service, to attend the University of Wyoming. Out of State students to pay $40.00 in general fees.​
1939 September 1:
  • ​Germany invaded Poland and World War II started. The United States adopted a neutral position until 1941 when Pearl Harbor was attacked by Japan.​
1939:
  • A new Union Pacific Coal Company Store was opened on the Lincoln Highway that ran through the center of town. It contained all the necessities a mining family would need such as school supplies, gifts, tools, clothing and groceries. G. E. Bullock was the first manager. 
1939:
  • The Union Pacific Coal Company produced a detailed Map of Hanna with house numbers and the names of the families that lived in the houses.
1940:
1940:
1940 June 3: ​
  • ​The new Post Office, which is the remodeled filling station near the site of the old Company Store, was opened on June 3rd. It is a very attractive building both inside and out. Miss Bertha Ekman is Mr. Kelly’s new assistant, filling the vacancy made by the resignation of Mrs. Frances Withrow on June 1st. (UPCCEM, July 1940)
1940 September 16:  
  • Congress initiated the first peacetime draft in the history of the United States. Selective Service was created and Hanna Men were now subject to mandatory serving in the military.
​1940 September29:
1940, June 14:
  • The German army entered and occupied Paris, France during World War II.
1940:
  • Wyoming’s population was 250,742 people with 12,644 of those living in Carbon County and 1,127 in Hanna.
1940: 
  • Forty-two houses were moved from One Town to upper Butler’s addition. Earlier, the houses from Three Town were moved to lower Butler's addition.
1940: 
  • The Union Pacific Coal Company's addition on the Hanna Amusement Hall - Love's was completed, along with remodeling for a new post office and installation of a water tank at Butler’s addition. The water tank was needed for the newly moved houses from No. 1 Town.
1941 December 7:
  • The Japanese bombed the American Naval fleet in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, killing more than 2,400 Americans. 
1941 December 8:
  • The United States declared war on Japan and entered World War II. The war initially began when Nazi Germany attacked Poland in September of 1939. 
1941 December 11:
  • Germany and Italy declared war on the United States. The citizens of Hanna were deeply affected.
1941:
1941:
  • The largest steam locomotive ever built, the Big Boy, went into service for Union Pacific Railroad. It steamed through Hanna many times.
1941:
  • ​Diesel powered locomotives were introduced by the Union Pacific Railroad for freight service. 
1941:
  • The Great Depression ended. It was a period of severe global economic downturn that occurred from 1929 to 1941. It was characterized by high rates of unemployment and poverty, drastic reductions in industrial production and trade, and widespread bank and business failures around the world.
1942:
1942: 
1942 November 11​: 
  • The legal draft age was lowered to age 18.
1942:
  • The Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming began to serve as an internment camp for some 10,000 Japanese Americans. The Japanese people in Hanna were not sent to the Relocation Center. They remained in Hanna to work in the coal mines.
1942: 
1943 August 1:
  • Bernard R. Lucas, Hanna resident: (World War II Casualty Serial number 17054597, TECHNICAL SERGEANT, 328th BOMBER SQUADRON, 93rd BOMBARDMENT GROUP,) was killed in action, August 1, 1943. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, Purple Heart Medal and Air Medal. He was buried in Florence, Italy. A memorial stone was placed in Hanna, Wyoming cemetery in plot 218. He was 22 years old.
1943 November 26:
  • Ten families were left homeless when two apartment houses and a beauty parlor burned down in Hanna. The buildings were located on the corner a block west of Love's Store and Theater. The fire started from hot ashes piled outside the apartment houses. It was reported that up to 60 families were affected by the fire.
1943:
1943:
  • ​University of Wyoming men’s basketball team won their first and only national basketball title. The team defeated the NIT champion, St. John’s, at Madison Square Garden, just a few days after winning the NCAA tournament title. The team was led by Kenny Sailors who is credited as the inventor of the modern day jump shot.
1943:
1944 June 6:
  • D-Day began. It was the day the Allied powers crossed the English Channel and landed on the beaches of Normandy, France beginning the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi control.
1944 June 26: 
  • John W. Saari, a Hanna resident, (World War II Casualty Serial number 39197110. TECHNICIAN GRADE 5, 297th ENGINEERS COMBAT BATTALION) was killed in action. He was awarded the Purple Heart Medal. He was buried in Cherbourg, France. A memorial monument was placed in the Hanna, Wyoming cemetery, in plot 360. He was 31 years old.
1944 July 14: 
  • ​William C. Lucas, a Hanna resident, (World War II Casualty, Serial number 0-524578. SECOND LIEUTENANT, 331 INFANTY, 83rd DIVISION U.S. ARMY), died from wounds received during action. He was buried in the Hanna, Wyoming cemetery in plot 218. He was 27 years old.
1944:
1944:
  • President Franklin Roosevelt signed the G.I. Bill to provide financial aid to veterans returning from World War II. Many Hanna veterans took advantage of this legislation. 
1944:
  • Steam Locomotive No. 844 was the last steam locomotive built for the Union Pacific Railroad.
1945 April 21: 
  • Arvo A. Luoma, a Hanna resident, (World War II Casualty Serial number 3714 3722. PRIVATE FIRST CLASS, U.S.) was killed in action and buried in the Hanna, Wyoming cemetery in plot 365. He was 28 years old.
1945 May 7:
  • The German armed forces officially surrendered. The Hanna Basin boys could now come home.
1945 August 6: 
  • The American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, dropped the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, killing approximately 80,000 people. 
1945 September 2:  
  • After 6 years and 1 day, World War II ended. 
1945:
  • The Nugget Coal Company started construction of a new steel and concrete modern tipple. The tipple was completed and put in service in 1946.
1946:
  • The Hanna Schools started participating in the new National School Lunch Act which started providing free and reduced cost meals for students in need.
1946:
  • ​The Hanna Gymnasium burned down at Christmas time. The 1946 Hanna Basketball Team was forced to practice in the Finn Hall, which was located near the school, and play most of their home games in Rawlins. In spite of all the difficulties, the Hanna team placed third in the district tournament and fourth in the state tournament.
1947:
  • A new Hanna Gym was built during the school year. The 1947 Hanna Basketball Team was also forced to practice in the Finn Hall and play most of their games at Rawlins. The team won the district tournament in 1947 and placed fourth at the state tournament. 
1947:
  • The Public Coal Company opened the Public Mine at Hanna, Wyoming
1948:
1948:
1949:
  • The Blizzard of 1949 was the worst storm in Wyoming history. The storm created nearly intolerable conditions in Hanna.
1949:
  • The Pioneer Mining Company opened the Pioneer Mine at Hanna, Wyoming.
1950 May 11:
  • Sixty-nine years after Big Nose George was lynched in Rawlins, construction workers, putting a new foundation in for a new building at the corner of East Cedar and Fourth Street, uncovered a whiskey barrel containing the remains of Big Nose George. The location was near the building that belonged to Dr. Maghee.
1950 June 25:
  • The Korean War began. North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of border clashes. The United Nations, with the United States as the primary force, came to the aid of South Korea. China and the Soviet Union came to the aid of North Korea. Some Hanna Men fought in the war. 
1950:
  • The St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Hanna was moved away from the coal chute and placed on the west side of the town just off Highway 30 and near the No. 4 mine. The church was placed on a new foundation that included a basement, which was used as an apartment for the priests. 
1950: 
  • ​Wyoming’s population was 290,529 people with 15,742 of those living in Carbon County and 1,326 living in Hanna.
1950: 
  • ​The Finn Hall was moved from near the old high school to the north end of town near the present day football field in order to make room for a new Hanna High School. 
1950:
1951:
  • Over the objection of Hanna and Elmo town and mine officials, the state Highway department relocated Highway 30, also called the Lincoln Highway, from the center of town to about one mile north of town. The move severely affected local businesses. The present day raised paved road out of Hanna was built to meet the new Highway 30. 
1951:
  • Rob Warburton started the Home Ranch gas station, cabins, restaurant and bar located on the new section of Highway 30 about one mile south of town.   
1953 January 14:
1953 July 27:  
  • The Korean War ended.
1953:
1954 February 26:
  • The Union Pacific Coal Company at the Hanna No. 4A Mine fired about three hundred miners.
1954 February 28:  
1954 March:
  • The firing of all the Union Pacific Coal Company miners in Hanna created difficult times for the miners and their families. Many families became destitute with no job, no income and no place to go. With a large number of miners suddenly unemployed in Hanna, the lack of income to buy food became a critical issue, consequently the Federal Commodity Program was started in Hanna.  The program assisted the needy unemployed Hanna miners and their families with food items until other employment could be found. In the beginning the program consisted of beans and potatoes, but later expanded to canned meats, flour, rice and other federal surplus food items as they became available. The program proved to be extremely beneficial and lasted for several years.
1954 November 12:
  • The gateway to America, Ellis Island, closed after processing more than 12 million immigrants. Many of those immigrants came to Carbon and Hanna.
1954 April 26:
  • The Polio vaccine trials began. 
1954:
  • When the Union Pacific Coal Company closed their mines in Hanna the Hanna Hospital closed as well. 
1955 April 12:
  • The polio vaccine was determined to be safe. Hanna School Students received the vaccine on the second floor of the block school house. The second floor was not being used because the High school and Jr. High students had moved to the new school a few years earlier.
1955 February: 
  • The Hanna United Mine Workers Union 2335 was disbanded. All members were transferred to local union No. 7502.
1955, October 6:
  • United Airlines flight 406 crashed on Medicine Bow Peak in Carbon County killing all 66 people on board. 
1955 November 1: 
  • The United States entered the Vietnam War.
1955:
  • The closing of the Hanna 4A Mine in1954 would mark the first year in the Hanna Basin history there would be no coal production from an underground mine.
1958:
  • The Medicine Bow to Casper Highway 487 was opened to traffic. The highway allowed travel for Hanna residents north to Casper. Until 487 opened, Hanna folks traveled the gravel road north of Hanna to reach Casper. 
1958:
1959:
  • The Rosebud Coal Sales Company, a division of Peter Kiewit and Sons, arrived in Hanna to start an open pit mine.  The company's first year of coal production in Hanna was 1961.
1959:
1960:
  • Wyoming’s population was 330,066 people with 14,937 living in Carbon County and 625 living in Hanna.
1960:
  • United Mine Workers local union No. 7247, which represented the Nugget Miners in years past, was disbanded. All members were transferred to local union No. 7502.
1962:
  • The South Country - Elk Mountain - was the Garden Spot for Hanna folks.
1963 October 2:
  • A large Cattle Drive took place from Elk Mountain to the Union Pacific Railroad Stockyard at Hanna.
1963 November 22: 
  • President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. He was fatally shot in Dallas, Texas while riding in a motorcade. Hanna came to a standstill in shock.
1964:
1965:
  • Coal Companies in the State of Wyoming employed only 327 coal miners statewide. It was the lowest number of miners employed in the industry up to that time.
1965: 
1968 December 2:
  • William J. McAtee, a Hanna resident, (Vietnam War Casualty, Serial number 54903692. SPECIALIST FOURTH CLASS, COMPANY D, 7th CAVALRY, 2nd BATALION, U.S. ARMY), was killed in action in the Republic of Vietnam [South Vietnam]. He was buried in the Hanna cemetery, in plot 433. He was 20 years old.
1968:
  • ​The last year of coal production for the Monolith Coal Company mine. It meant the loss of about eleven mining jobs to Hanna and Elmo.
1969 October:  
  • Fourteen African American football players, which included James Isaac from Hanna, at the University of Wyoming asked the coach for permission to wear black armbands in the game against Brigham Young University as a protest against the LDS church’s ban of black people from the priesthood in the church. The coach, Lloyd Eaton, refused to let the players wear armbands and kicked them off the team. The university president backed the coach's actions. The incident ended in litigation and was disastrous for the University of Wyoming football program.
1969:
1969:
  • ​Arch Mineral was officially incorporated in Wyoming and moved into the Hanna Basin to mine coal.
1970 October 3:
  • ​The controversial 77-mile section of Interstate 80 north of Hanna between Laramie and Wolcott Junction was dedicated and opened for traffic. 
1970:
1970:
  • ​Wyoming’s population was 332,416 people with 13,354 of those living in Carbon County and 450 living in Hanna. Going forward, Hanna experienced a population boom. The population, by 1980, would be near 2,500 residents.
1970: 
1970: 
  • ​Employment opportunities, between 1954 and 1970, were scarce in the Hanna Basin. Starting in 1970, the Hanna coal mining boom was on and jobs were once again returning and so were the people. According to the United States Census, from 1970 to 2010, the town of Hanna experienced several dramatic swings in population. In 1970, the Hanna population was only 460 people. Over the next ten years from 1970 to 1980, the town grew by 1,828 new people to 2,288 town folks. Over the next ten years, from 1980 to 1990, the town lost over half of its population, a loss of 1,076 individuals, leaving Hanna with 1,076 people. By the year 2000, the population had settled in at 873 people. In 2010, the population remained relatively stable with a population of 841 folks.
1970:
  • The Arch Mineral Corporation, moved into the Hanna to open a surface coal mine. The new mine created new jobs. The town of Hanna struggled to find housing for the new miners.  
1971:
1972 May 19:
  • The Coal Miner's Black Lung Benefits Act of 1973 went into effect. The act was a United States federal law which provided monthly payments and medical benefits to coal miners disabled from Black Lung Disease arising from employment in or around the nation's coal mines. The law also provides monthly benefits to a miner's dependent survivors if pneumoconiosis caused or hastened the miner's death.
1972:  
1972:
1973:
  • ​Coal Slurry pipelines were proposed in Wyoming as a way to transport crushed coal from Wyoming to the Northwest and eastern states using large quintiles of water to move the slurry through the pipelines. The idea was short lived.
1973
  • The Medicine Bow Coal Company's Open Pit Mine was under construction with 35 employees. the mine's first year of coal production would be not until 1975. 
1974:
  • The Lions Club of Hanna was chartered. Charter members were: Leo Leathers, Jerry, Kissinger, Kenneth Hartman, James Barnes, Dale Yates, Joe Doherty, James Wolfe, Ward Fenimore, Robert Jackson, Arthur Goodall, Frank Conway, Ed McAtee, Jim Poulas and Gordon Roop.
1974:
  • ​The Medicine Bow Coal Company completed development and construction at its Medicine Bow mine and was preparing to begin production in 1975.
1975:
  • The Hanna Railroad Overpass was officially opened. Mayor Gordon Roop and former Mayor Shorty Dundas were inside the first vehicle over the bridge, Bob Jackson's Model T Ford.
1976 March 1:
  • Michael Vickers Love, a Hanna resident, (Peace Time Casualty) (LIEUTENANT COLONEL, US AIR FORCE), was killed in the line of duty when his aircraft crashed on Rogers dry lakebed in California. Michael was a combat veteran of Vietnam and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross with two Oak Leaf Clusters. He is buried at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. A memorial stone was placed in the Hanna cemetery in plot 448. Michael was participating in the United States space program at the time of his death. He was 37 years old.
1977:
  • Arch Mineral Corporation hired Hanna resident Ron Withrow of Withrow Construction to strip dirt off the coal seams and build roads in and around the Arch mines.
1977: 
1981 March 30:
  • The residents of Hanna were in shock when President Ronald Reagan was shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C. hotel by John Hinckley Jr.
1979 Thursday April 12:
1979:
  • The first Sony Walkman went on sale to the people of Hanna.
1980:
  • Wyoming’s population was 469,557 people.  21,896 of those lived in Carbon County and 2,238 in Hanna.
1980:
1982 July 5:
  • ​The Finn Hall in Hanna burned down while being converted into apartments.
1982 September 2:
  • ​Governor Ed Herschler dedicated a two-tower test wind farm at Medicine Bow for wind power research.
1982 November 13: 
  • The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington D. C. The monument holds 57,939 names of American soldiers that died in the war, including Bill McAtee from Hanna.
1983:
  • The abandoned Union Pacific Railroad depot in Medicine Bow, Wyoming, built in 1913, was opened as the Medicine Bow Museum.
1983:
1983 May:
  • Hanna and Elmo resident Betty (Daniels) Poulos authored a creative poem about the place she lived, titled Memories of Hanna.​
1983:
  • The Hanna Community Hall was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Hanna Basin Museum was organized and occupied the Hanna Community Hall.
1984 May 27:
  • The Hanna Basin Historical Society dedicated the Miners' Memorial near the Hanna Recreation Center to all the miners who died in the Carbon and Hanna Mines. A similar monument was later placed in the Hanna Cemetery. 
1984:
1984:  
  • The Arch Seminoe No. 1 Open Pit Mine was abandoned. It started coal production in 1972 and produced coal for thirteen consecutive years.
1985 January 23:
  • The last issue of the Hanna Herald was published. 
1985: 
1985: 
  • A new mine, Amar Incorporated, an auger mine, opened production of coal in Hanna, Wyoming.
1986:
1987: 
1988 February:
  • ​The Union Pacific Railroad started phasing out the use of a caboose on their trains through Hanna. 
1988:
  • Arch of Wyoming gained control over production of coal in the Medicine Bow Mine. 
1989:
  • Amar Incorporated, Gordon Gibbs, Vice President, an Auger Coal Mine, with 6 employees, was idle. Amar Incorporated opened an Auger Mine in Hanna and started production of coal in 1985 and ended production in 1989.
1990:
  • Wyoming’s population was 453,588, with 16,659 of those living in Carbon County and 1,076 in Hanna. Since the last census, Hanna lost 1,162 people.
1990: 
  • Wyoming and West Virginia Incorporated Coal Company's Sky No. 1 Punch Mine opened at Hanna, Wyoming.
1990:
1991 January 17: 
  • Operation Desert Storm began, with U.S. led forces bombing Iraq, during the Gulf War.
1991 February 28:  
  • The Gulf War ended after Iraq accepted a ceasefire following their retreat from Kuwait.
1991:
  • Arch of Wyoming's Seminoe No. 2 Open Pit Mine with 14 employees was once again idle and involved in reclamation work. 
1992:
1992:
  • Arch of Wyoming's Seminoe No. 2 Open Pit Mine, with 5 employees, was working on reclamation projects. 
1992: 
1993:
  • The Rosebud Mine, with 17 employees, was working on reclamation and had no coal production.
 1993:
  • Arch of Wyoming's Seminoe No. 2 Open Pit Mine, with 6 employees, was idle. The mine was involved in reclamation work and had no coal production. 
1994:
  • ​The Rosebud Coal Sales Company's (David L. Evans, Operations Superintendent) Rosebud Open Pit Mine with 17 employees was engaged in reclamation work. 
1994:
  • ​Arch of Wyoming's Seminoe No. 2 Open Pit Mine with 4 employees was idle and engaged in reclamation work. 
1995:
  • Rosebud Coal Sales' (David L. Evans, Operations Superintendent) Rosebud Open Pit Mine with 16 employees was engaged in reclamation.
1998:
1999 April 22:
  • ​PacifCorp started up Wyoming's first commercial wind farm northeast of Hanna, between Medicine Bow and Interstate 80. 
1999:
  • ​RAG Shoshone Coal Company took over production of coal from Cyprus at the Shoshone No. 1 Underground Mine in Hanna, Wyoming

2000

2000:
  • Wyoming’s population was 493,782 people. 15,639 of those lived in Carbon County and 823 lived in Hanna, a loss in Hanna of 203 individuals.
2001:
  • The citizens of the Hanna Basin noticed with pride that the Union Pacific Railroad began adding large American flag decals to the sides of their locomotives as a result of the terrorist attacks on the United States. 
2003 June 12:
  • ​The Cummings / Crawford Cottage was moved to the Hanna Basin Museum and put on display. The cottage is an original Union Pacific Coal Company house lived in over time by the Cummings and Crawford families. It has been restored to near its original color and condition. It was moved from No. 2 Town to the Hanna Basin Museum on June 12, 2003.​
2003:
  • The town of Hanna received more bad news when Arch of Wyoming announced their plans to close production and reclaim their Medicine Bow and Seminoe No. 2 Mines at Hanna in the near future. 
2003:
  • Carbon Cemetery Clean Up and Restoration efforts began under the direction and supervision of Nancy and Victor Anderson of the Hanna Basin Museum and Historical Society and Carbon Cemetery Board.  
2004 April 29:
  • The World War II monument was opened in Washington, D.C., in recognition of the 16 million U.S. men and women who served in the war.
2004:
  • The town of Hanna continued to lose population as more miners were laid off at Arch of Wyoming's Mines.
2005:
  • This year was the first time in the history of Hanna Basin Mining that there was no coal production in the Hanna Basin.
2005:
  • Arch of Wyoming's (Neal Forbes, Mine Manager) Medicine Bow Open Pit Mine with 7 employees was working on reclamation and produced no coal. Seminoe No. 2 Open Pit Mine with 13 employees was also working on reclamation. No coal was produced. 
2006:
  • Hanna residents received some good news when Arch of Wyoming announced that mine development had begun at Arch's Elk Mountain Mine at Hanna. The coal produced at the Elk Mountain Mine would be shipped out of the Seminoe No. 2 load out facility north of Hanna. 
2007:  
  • ​Apple released the iPhone, their first phone to be put on the market. 
2010:
  • Wyoming’s population was 563,626 people with 15,885 of those living in Carbon County and 841 living in Hanna. 
2010:
2011 May 29:
  • ​The Lamp Post from the Love's Amusement Hall was installed in front of the Hanna Basin Museum.
2012 August 5:
  • Pentti Simojoki, seventy-three years old, the grandson of Nils Simelius along with his son Samuli Simojoki and his two sons - Elias, age eight, and Kaius, age six, came from Finland to Carbon, to visit the grave of Nils Simelius and pay their respects.  The family brought with them a plaque attached to a rock from the family farm in Finland to leave at the grave site.
2012:
  • The town of Hanna continued to experience a slow population death. Arch of Wyoming was the last coal mining company to produce coal in Hanna. ​The last shipment of coal from Hanna came from the Arch of Wyoming's Elk Mountain Mine. 
2013:
  • ​There aren't any "Big Boys" steam engines operating today, but the Union Pacific Railroad reacquired No. 4014 from the RailGiants Museum in Pomona, California, with long-term plans to bring it back to operating condition. 
2014 May 7:
  • ​The Union Pacific steam engine "Big Boy" No. 4014 rolled through Hanna headed to Cheyenne, Wyoming for repairs.​
2014 October 6:
  • ​A new Hanna Elementary School opened. It was designed as a community center as well as an academic facility for the Hanna children. ​
June 20, 2015:
2015 December 18:
2015:
  • Arch of Wyoming entered reclamation work in 2005 and completed the job in 2015. The Arch Seminoe No. 2 open pit mine produced coal from 1972 through 1989. It was idle for 5 years from 1990 through 1994. Coal production resumed in 1995 through 2004. The mine was in production for 28 years.  The mine was engaged in reclamation work in Hanna for 11 years. Over its 44-year lifetime, the mine produced 35,478,877 tons of coal with a peak work force in 1979 of 325 workers. The mine experienced no work-related deaths. 
2015:
  • The old Hanna School built in 1950 and added onto over the years was torn down and hauled away.
2016 September 1:
  • St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Hanna was sold to a private entity. All the contents of the church except the church bell were sold with the building, including the wooden cross from the Episcopal Church in Carbon.  
2016 March:
  • ​Massive coal mine layoffs started to occur in Wyoming. The world's largest coal company, Peabody Coal Company and Arch of Wyoming Coal Company layed off up to 450 workers in the Campbell County area alone. The state started a severe downturn in coal production and employment. 
2017 April 18:
2017 May 14:
  • Thirty Japanese Monuments in the Hanna cemetery were transcribed by Ayako and Noriaki Ohara.
2017 July 13:
2017 August 21:
  • ​​A total solar eclipse was experienced in Hanna.
2018 April 4:
  • ​The grave site located by Richard Fisher at the Carbon cemetery for the outlaw Dutch Charlie Burris was marked by a graved stone.
2018 May 24:
2018 May 27: 
  • ​Memorial Day services were held at the VFW park east of the Hanna Recreation Center and not the Hanna cemetery. 
2018 July 17:
  • The west and east entrances to the Union Pacific Coal Company's No. 1 Mine in Hanna were located. The Mine was closed in 1908 after killing 249 men in two explosions over its brief history.
2019 May 17:
  • The Union Pacific Railroad's restored Big Boy Steam Engines 4014 and Engine 844 were running the rails again and stopped in Hanna on its way back from the week long Heritage Festival held in Ogden, Utah.
2019 September 25: 
2020 September 5:
  • A Hanna Wildfire broke out west of town and seriously threatened the town's existence.
2021 February:
2021:
2022 August 6:
2022 October:​
2023 September 22:
  • A new Hanna Mine Explosion Monument was placed on Hanna No. 1 Hill dedicated to the men who lost their lives in the Union Pacific Coal Company's Hanna No. 1 mine and to those men not removed and are still buried at the bottom of the mine.
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Town of Hanna. 2018. (Image by Bob Leathers)