Hanna Basin Museum Website Notebook

The Notebook from Bob Leathers

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(Union Pacific Coal Company Employe's Magazine, 1929)

Carbon: Aka Carbon City and Old Carbon

1868 - 1892:

• ​Notes: Carbon: Aka: Old Carbon and Carbon City

1868

• Notes: Carbon Cemetery Records

1868:

• Notes: Carbon Mine Fatality Records for 1869 - 1901

2003: 

• ​Notes: Carbon Cemetery Clean Up and Restoration

2012 August 5:

• Notes: ​Nils Simelius' Grave in Carbon Was Visited by His Family From Finland

Hanna Labor Day parade and activities at the town park and baseball field. Note the coal slag pile in the center background from the Union Pacific Coal Company's No. 2 mine.

T. H. But;er in Hanna Labor Day Parade (Hanna Basin Museum)

Hanna

Buildings and Businesses

1889:

• Notes: Hanna's Front Street and Other Historical Buildings and Locations​ - ​The notes include:

A. No. 1 Town, B. No. 1 Mine, C. No. 2 Town, D. No. 2 Mine, E. No. 3 Town, F. No. 3 Mine, G. No. 3.5 Mine
H. No. 4 Mine, 1.  Mary Ford’s Hanna Hotel  2. Hanna Post Office, 3. Butler’s - Milliken’s Confectionary and Candy Store 4.   Mark Jackson’s Barber Shop, 5. Photo Shop, 6. Doctor’s Office – William and Mary Jones’ Home, 7.  Hanna State and Savings Bank, 8. Finnish Boarding House, 9. Thomas Jackson’s Store, 10. Sam Dickinson's Dry Good Store, 11. Jack Pickup’s House, 12. Millie While's Candy Store – Apartments – Shoe Repair Shop in the Back. 13. John Milliken’s Livery, Stable and Barn, 14. Linden Hall, First Aid Hall, Library, Community Hall and Hanna Basin Museum, 15. First Union Pacific Coal Company Store, 16. Mortuary, 17. First Hospital, 18. First Doctor's  Office,    19. Thomas Love’s Opera House and Club Room, 20. Union Pacific Railroad Water Tower, 21. Union Pacific Railroad Coal Chutes, 22. Union Pacific Railroad Depot, 23. Union Pacific Railroad Roundhouse and Machine Shop, 24. Episcopal Church, 25. Methodist Church, 26. Catholic Church, 27. Finnish Lutheran Church, 28. Original School – Cottage Home Boarding House – Second Hospital – Braun Home, 29. Thomas Love's Amusement Center, 30. Second Union Pacific Coal Company Store, 31. Finn Hall, 32. Allen Family Bakery - Pete Puro's Bakery, 33. Two Story Block School Building, 34. School Utility Building, Kindergarten and Lunchroom, 35. First School Gymnasium, 40. Mine No. 2 and Mine No. 4 Bath House, 41. Mine No. 4 Support Buildings

1890:

• Notes: Hanna Basin Businesses Advertising 

​1984:

• ​Notes:: The Hanna Recreation Center Was Built

2019:

• Notes:: Hanna Basin Today 

Celebrations

1912 - 2018:

• ​Notes:: Hanna Decoration / Memorial Day

1909:

• Notes:: Hanna Labor Day

1915:

• Notes:: Hanna Celebrates the Eight Hour Day

1920:

• Notes: Hanna Annual Flower and Garden Contest

1925 January:

• Notes:: Scotch Day - An Old Time New Year's Celebration

Cemetery

1889

• Notes: Hanna Cemetery Records

1925 November 22: 

• Notes:: 1925 November 22: A Tragedy - Botulism Claimed the Lives of all the Collins Children

1942

• Notes: Hanna Men And Women Who Served Their Country

2017 May 14:

• Notes:: Hanna Cemetery - Japanese Monuments Transcribed

Coal Mining

1869 - 2012:

• Notes: Hanna Basin Mining Companies and Mines

1869:

• Notes:: Coal Mining: Then and Today - Accidents Explained - Safety Efforts

1800's:

• Notes:  Superstitions in the Coal Mines: Tommyknockers, Knockers, Demons, Gnomes and Fairies

1900 - 1954

• Notes: Men Injured in the Hanna Mines

1914 April 20:

• ​Notes:: How Colorado's Ludlow Massacre Affected the Citizens of Hanna, Wyoming

1924:

• Notes:: Coal Mine Disasters in the U. S. Killed 2,381 Men

1925 March:

• Notes:: Hanna Men's First Aid Teams, Library and Mine Safety

1927:

• Notes: Mechanical Equipment for Mining Coal: The Thew Loading Shovels and Joy Loading Machines

1927:

• Notes: National Mining Disasters Important to Hanna Basin Miners

1939:

• Notes:: Union Pacific Coal Company's Map of Hanna With Family Names and House Numbers

1940:

• Notes: Union Pacific Coal Company's Sigma Tau Epsilon Mine Safety Fraternity

1954 February:

• ​Notes:: The Union Pacific Coal Company Mines Close in Hanna and the Federal Commodity Program Helped Feed the Miners and Their Families After the Mines were Closed

1800-1900's

• Videos: Coal Mining Videos - Breaker Boys - Working in the Coal Mine - Pit Ponies - Working Man 

1800 -1900's

• Music: Coal Mining Music

1970 - 1980:

• Notes:: Hanna Strip Mine Blasting Videos

2015 Friday December 18:

• ​Notes:: The Last Underground Coal Mine in the United Kingdom Closed

2017 July 18:

• Notes:: 2017 July 13: The Last Dragline in Hanna Was Demolished

Happenings

1929:

• Notes:: Hanna Citation from Charles Lindbergh

1949:

• ​Notes:: The Great Blizzard of 1949

1942:

• Notes: Hanna's Japanese Community and World War II

1951:

• Notes:: Rob Warburton Started the Home Ranch Filling Station, Cabins, Restaurant and Bar on Highway 30

2020 September 5:

• Notes: A wildfire broke out west of Hanna and seriously threatened the town

Monuments

1920 July 4: 

• ​Notes:: The Soldiers' Monument at the Hanna school, Dedicated to the World War I Veterans

1932:

• Notes:: Monument Dedicated to the Men Who Lost Their Lives in the Union Pacific Coal Company's Hanna No. 1 Mine

1984 May 27:

• ​Notes:: The Hanna Miners' Monuments ​Located Next to the Hanna Recreation Center and in the Hanna Cemetery

Music, Poetry and Organizations

1889:

• Notes:: Hanna Music and Bands

1900's

• Notes: Hanna's Mule Skinners Association

1909:

• Notes:: Hanna Baseball

1922:

• Notes: Poetry from Carbon and Hanna

1925 June:

• Notes:: Hanna Girl Scout and Brownies

1925 September:

• Notes:: Hanna Boy Scouts

1927 April:

• Notes:: Hanna's Knights of Pythians and Pythian Sisters

1927 April:

• Notes:: The Hanna Volunteer Fire Department and Fire Truck

1936:

• Notes: Loyal Order of the Moose

1993 May: 

• Notes:: ​Poem - Memories of Hanna by Betty (Daniels) Poulos

2018 May:

• Notes:: The Old Hanna - Elmo Fire Truck

Newspapers, Books and Magazines

1953:

• Notes:: Hanna Field by Marv Wilbur: A Story of a Fledgling Episcopal Priest and his Six Wyoming Missions

1979 April 12:

• ​Notes:: The First Issue of the Hanna Herald

Museum

1939 - 2003 June 12:

• Notes:: The Cummings / Crawford Cottage

2011:

• Notes: The Lamp Post from Love's Amusement Hall Put on Display at the Hanna Basin Museum

2015:

• ​Notes:: Hanna Basin Museum Honors Amelia Leino and Lillian Turner

2015 June 20:

• ​Notes:: A New Building and Addition to the Hanna Basin Museum Was Started

2018 November 20:

• Notes: Lincoln Highway Exhibit Coming to the Hanna Basin Museum

 Old Timers

​​1889 -1954

• Notes:: The Union Pacific Coal Company Employes' Magazines from the Union Pacific Coal Company

1924:

• ​Notes:: The Union Pacific Coal Company's Old Timers' Association

1926:

• Notes:: A group of Old Timers - Union Pacific Coal Company Officials

1927 April:

• Notes:: The Union Pacific Coal Company Headquarters Building in Rock Springs, Wyoming

1927:

• Notes:: A group of Old Timers - Women who lived in Carbon and now in Hanna: Mrs. S. J. Rodda, Mrs. Jos. Norris, Mrs. M. Reese, Mrs. James Morgan, Mrs. Gus Collins, Mrs. I. Christenson, Mrs. Given Jones, Mrs. W. W. Hughes and Mrs. Agnes Raite.

1930:

• Notes:: The Union Pacific Coal Company Mines in Cumberland Were Closed

1957 June - July:

• Notes:: Wyoming Wanderlust, a discussion magazine of the Equality State, featured Hanna Old Timers: Mr. and Mrs Thomas Mellor, Julian Choate, Henry Jones, Eli Johnson, Evan "Snapper" Jones, Michael and Sarah Cummings, Matt and Louise Wakkuri and Jeane Raite Massey.

Schools

1889 - 1961:

• Notes: Hanna Schools

1921 February:

• Notes:: The First Hanna High School Newspaper, The Pioneer was Published:  Vol. 1 No. 1 

1921 June: 

• Notes:: The Fourth Hanna High School Pioneer Newspaper was Published

Timber and Logging

1960:

• Notes:: Hanna Sawmill

Union Pacific Railroad

1867:

• ​Notes: Early History of the Union Pacific Railroad - Depot, Steam Engines. Switch Crew, Mail Pick-up, Section Crews, Gandy Dancers, Trains Today

1867:

• Music Video: Building the Union Pacific Railroad - Black Irish Band

1941: 

• Notes:: Film - The Last of the Giants - The Big Boy

A tribute to the "Big Boy" locomotives produced by Union Pacific, "Last of the Giants" shows the end of a memorable era in Western Railroading.  The "Big Boy" is the popular name of the American Locomotive Company 4000-class 4-8-8-4 articulated, coal-fired, steam locomotives manufactured between 1941 and 1944 and operated by the Union Pacific Railroad until 1959. (Archive.org)

1987:

• Notes:: Film - Footage Segment of the Union Pacific's Most Preserved Steam Locomotive in America; a 4-8-4 'Northern' No. 8444.

2005 September:

• Notes:: Union Pacific Railroad Train Derailment in Front of the Hanna Basin Museum and Under the Overpass

2017 April 18: 

• Notes:: Un​ion Pacific Steam Engine 844 Stopped at Hanna, Wyoming

2017 April 18:

• ​Notes:: The Union Pacific Steam Engine 844 Visited Hanna

2019 May 17 and May 4:

• Notes:: Big Boy​ 4014 and Engine 844 Running the Rails Again Through Hanna

Elmo and Sampo - Finn Towns

​1908:

• Notes:: The Finnish Town and Coal Mine of Sampo​

1917:

• ​Notes:: Elmo's First Street and Other Historical Buildings and Locations​. The notes include:

1. Gus Siltimaki's House and Coal Mine, 2. Workingmen's Commercial Company, 3. Sampo Bottling Works - Henry Kuppala's Pop Shop, 4. Mangen's Shamrock Social Club - V. F. W. Building, 5. Elmo Bar - Fagerholm's Bar - Si's Bar - First Nugget Bar, 6.  Nick Vouraxis Home and Pool Hall (Burned Down), 9. Elmo: Sampo CO-OP Warehouse, 10. Arthur Allen Meats Market - Sampo CO-OP Store - Tripplet's Elmo Grocery, 11. Poulos Nugget Bar, 12, Red's Bar, 13. Elmo Garage, 14. Emil Salo House, 15. Rob and Gert Milliken House, 16. Arthur Allen's Silver Cabins, 17. Ruskenen's Elmo Garage - Allen Motor Company - Si Siltamaki's Garage - Fenimore Chevrolet Dealership and Emo Garage, 19. Elmo Service Garage

Elk Mountain - The South Country

1960

• Notes:: Town of Elk Mountain

1963 October 2: 

• Notes:: A Large Cattle Drive from Elk Mountain to Hanna's Union Pacific Railroad Stockyard

Leo - The North Country

1909 June 14:

• Notes:: The Pathfinder Dam near Hanna

2001:

• ​Notes:: Carbon and Hanna: More Than Coal

Outlaws

1889 June 2:

• ​Notes:: The Wild Bunch Near Hanna

1916 April 21: 

• ​Notes:: William "Wild Bill" Carlisle Robbed a Train Near Hanna 

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