Hanna, Carbon County, Wyoming
Website provided by Bob Leathers for the Hanna Basin Museum
Created August 1, 2010
Website Contact information: HannaBasinMuseum@gmail.com (Attention: Bob)
Created August 1, 2010
Website Contact information: HannaBasinMuseum@gmail.com (Attention: Bob)
Energy Development Company and Resource Exploration Mining Company's Loading Facility West of Hanna. Early 1970's. (Milan "Fogie" Fogelson Collection at the Hanna Basin Museum
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Energy Development Company and Resource Exploration Mining Company in Hanna.
Energy Development Company and Resource Exploration Mining Company in Hanna.
The purpose of this website is to help others connect to the past by collecting, preserving and sharing historical information about Wyoming's Hanna Basin.
We invite you to explore how the Hanna Basin came to be and how it touched the lives of many.
- Our goal is to honor the history of the Hanna Basin by providing detailed and accurate information.
- We welcome comments, 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.
- Individuals wishing to use images from this website must first receive permission from the Hanna Basin Museum. Please use the Contact Us page to send requests, comments and information to the museum or send an email to HannaBasinMuseum@gmail.com (Attention: Bob)
What's New or Updated on the Website
October 2018
- New: under the Early Settlers tab > In Memory: An Alphabetical List of Early Hanna Basin Settlers tab > In Memory of Some Early Hanna Basin Settlers added: Mrs. John D. Jones, Joseph Lee, Mark and Edith Lee (While), Jack and Sadie Lee (Lloyd) and John Lee. (October 18, 2018)
- New and Updated: Under the Hanna tab > Part 2: The Hanna Chronological History Continued with detailed information and pictures tab > 1970-1983: Energy Development Company and Resource Exploration Mining Company Mined Coal in Hanna, Wyoming. Lots of new mine pictures to view. (October 8, 2018)
- Updated: under the Hanna tab > Part 1: The Chronological History of the Hanna Basin in Wyoming > added new dates and information. (October 8, 2018)
- New: under the Early Settlers tab > In Memory: An Alphabetical List of Early Hanna Basin Settlers tab > added Mark Jackson. Mark Jackson and his music. (October 1, 2018)
- Updated: under the Hanna tab > Hanna Cemetery Records tab > updated Mark Jackson's record. (October 1, 2018)
- New: under the Early Settlers tab > In Memory: An Alphabetical List of Early Hanna Basin Settlers tab > added Victor Anderson and Gabriel Boberg. Victor Anderson's roots were in Carbon. (October 1, 2018)
Hanna Basin Museum and Cummings/Crawford Cottage (While Family Collection taken by Bob Leathers, 2015)
Hanna Basin Museum Director: Sarah Jones
Hanna Basin Museum and Historical Society
P.O. Box 252
502 Front Street, Hanna WY 82327
(307) 325-6465
Summer Hours: Friday - Sunday 1:00 to 5:00 PM Winter Hours: Friday 1:00 to 5:00 PM
Summer hours start with Memorial Day and end with Labor Day.
Hanna Basin Museum and Historical Society
P.O. Box 252
502 Front Street, Hanna WY 82327
(307) 325-6465
Summer Hours: Friday - Sunday 1:00 to 5:00 PM Winter Hours: Friday 1:00 to 5:00 PM
Summer hours start with Memorial Day and end with Labor Day.
Help!
The Hanna Basin Museum Website is searching for pictures of the abandoned Nugget and Monolith open pit mines located near Hanna and Elmo, Wyoming.
The Nugget Coal Company operated near Elmo from 1936 until 1958. The Monolith Portland Midwest Coal Company operated near Elmo from 1937 until 1969. The two mines are important pieces of the Hanna and Elmo mining history. We can not locate a picture of either mine, please help by contacting Bob at HannaBasinMuseum@gmail.com.
The Nugget Coal Company operated near Elmo from 1936 until 1958. The Monolith Portland Midwest Coal Company operated near Elmo from 1937 until 1969. The two mines are important pieces of the Hanna and Elmo mining history. We can not locate a picture of either mine, please help by contacting Bob at HannaBasinMuseum@gmail.com.
The March 28, 1908 Explosion of Union Pacific Coal Company's No. 1 Mine in Hanna killed 59 miners.
Numbers That Matter
The Hanna Basin includes the Wyoming towns of Hanna and Elmo, which still exist, and the coal camps of Carbon, Sampo and Dana, which are now ghost towns.
The Hanna Basin mines produced over 220 million tons of coal. The coal, however, came at a tremendous human cost. A staggering 371 coal miners were killed in the Hanna Basin mines while in the process of mining the coal.
The Hanna Basin mines produced coal for 144 years. Coal production started at Carbon in 1868 and ended in Carbon in 1902, which amounted to 35 years of continuous production. Hanna started coal production in 1890 and ended in 2012, for 122 continuous years of production. Carbon and Hanna overlapped production for 13 years, from 1890 to 1902.
During those years:
The Hanna Basin mines produced over 220 million tons of coal. The coal, however, came at a tremendous human cost. A staggering 371 coal miners were killed in the Hanna Basin mines while in the process of mining the coal.
The Hanna Basin mines produced coal for 144 years. Coal production started at Carbon in 1868 and ended in Carbon in 1902, which amounted to 35 years of continuous production. Hanna started coal production in 1890 and ended in 2012, for 122 continuous years of production. Carbon and Hanna overlapped production for 13 years, from 1890 to 1902.
During those years:
- 43 coal mining companies operated over 50 individual mines in the Hanna Basin between 1868 and 2012.
- 220,032,841 tons of coal were produced between 1868 and 2012 in the Hanna Basin.
- 2012 coal production in the Hanna Basin ended.
- 371 men were killed mining the coal.
(Information from The Hanna Miner: At the Bottom of the Mine)
The Hanna - Elmo Fire Truck is Now at the Museum.
Stop by and see it.
Hanna - Elmo Fire Truck (Image by Bob Leathers)