Serving the Platte Valley since 1888
Serving the Platte Valley since 1888
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The town of Carbon was described in the Lippincott's "Gazetteer of the World", a geographical dictionary of the world published in 1893, as a post-village of Carbon County. "It is 84 miles by rail northwest of Laramie. Coal mining is on here. It has three churches, a bank, a common and high school, and a newspaper office. Pop. 1140." Carbon County, in 1890 had a population of 6,587. In 1870, the number of people was 1,368. Hanna is not listed; nor is Saratoga or Encampment....
The size of the Grand Encampment Museum (GEM) in Encampment and the Little Snake River Museum (LSRM) in Savery surprise visitors. Although there is a main building where visitors start in both museums, GEM and LSRM are actually a collection of buildings that have artifacts displayed in all. Both have houses that have furniture from days of past that give the visitor a real taste of what it was like to live in these communities 100 years ago. The Grand Encampment Museum Carbon...
Editor's note: This is the first in a series on museums in Carbon County. There are seven museums in Carbon County. Some have been around for decades and others are still fairly new. It takes time, vision, fund raising and motivated founders to make these cultural institutions come to life. The newest museum in the county is the Elk Mountain Museum. It was established in 2014. "I have always wanted a museum here," Bill Jones, one of the founders said. "I started collecting...