Welcome to the Hanna Basin Museum Website
The purpose of this website is to help people connect to the past by collecting, preserving and sharing historical information about the Hanna Basin area. 

Page by Bob Leathers

The Hanna Basin Museum welcomes comments and documented corrections and additions to the content on this website. 
We also welcome any pictures, documents or information from our readers that might be helpful in our telling the Hanna Basin story. Our goal is to honor the history of the Hanna Basin by providing detailed and accurate information. 
Please send comments and information to: HannaBasinMuseum@gmail.com
Attention: Bob

 Featured are two of the most important historical events in the Hanna Basin area. The 1903 and 1908 explosions of the Number One Mine in Hanna, Carbon, Wyoming, killed 228 men.

 Details about the explosions may be found under the Hanna tab at the top of the page.

The 1903 Explosion on June 30, 1903 occurred about 10:15 in the morning killing 169 men.

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  Two explosions on  March 28, 1908 killed 59 men. 
The first explosion occurred  about three in the afternoon killing 18 men. The second explosion occurred at about ten thirty in the evening, killing an additional 41 men.

The disaster left thirty-one widows and one hundred and thee fatherless children. 
Noah Young, State Mine Inspector
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Hanna Basin Museum
Hanna Basin Historical Society and Hanna Basin Museum
P.O. Box 252
502 Front Street, Hanna WY 82327  
Summer Hours: Friday - Sunday 1:00 to 5:00 PM    Winter Hours: Friday 1:00 to 5:00 PM

HannaMuseum@union-tel.com

Museum Director: Nancy Anderson
Website provided by volunteer: Bob Leathers